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Artist: Rauschenberg

Title: Signs

Date: 1970

Medium: Screenprint, Paper, Collage-style

Subject: 1960s (MLK assassination, RFK assassination, JFK, Vietnam, Janis Joplin)

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Artist: Delacroix, Eugene

Title: Liberty Leading the People

Date: 1830

Medium: Oil Painting

Subject: July Revolution of 1830, topping King Charles X of France.

Woman personifying Liberty, holding flag of the French Revolution

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Artist: Messonier

Title: The Barricade in rue Mortellerie

Date: 1848

Medium: Oil paint

Subject: Corpses of Worker/Rioters after their barricade was defeated by National Guard in 1848, France

Location: Salon of 1850, France

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Artist: Meissonier

Title: Ruins of the Tuileries

Date: 1871

Location: Paris

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Subject: Paris Commune established by rebelling National Guardsmen, ruins of palace.

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Artist: Jean-Pierre Rey

Title: Girl Waving flag in crowd during General Strike, Paris

Date: May 1968

Location: Paris, LIFE magazine may 24th 1968

Medium: Photograph

Subject: General Strike 10 students dead, 1500 injured, workers and leftists.

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What is Lettrist or Letterist International?

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Collective of artists and theorists based in Paris 1952-57.

Created by Guy Debord

Young, hedonist radicals focused on rejection of religious dogma and rightist politics.

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What is Situationist International?

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A more politically-minded offshoot of the Lettrists, 1957-1972

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What is a Constructed Situation?

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Situationist Terminology:

“moment of life directly constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a game of events”

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What is a Situationist?

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One who engages in the construction of situations.

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What is Situationism?

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There is no such thing.

To define Situations would distract from being in the “moment”

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What is Psychogeography?

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The study of the specific effects of the geographical environment…

on the emotions and behavior of individuals

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What is Dérive?

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“A mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society. “ - Guy Debord

Purposely aberrant behavior.

Deviating from the normal and accepted behavior of society.

A psychogeographical term for an unplanned journey through a landscape in which one’s direction is determined by their subconscious.

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What is Unitary Urbanism?

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The theory of the combined use of Arts and Technique for the integral construcion of a social environment in dynamic relation with experiments in behavior.

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What is Détournement?

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hijacking of preexisting aesthetic elements.

The integration of present or past artistic production into a superior construction of a milieu/social evironment/community.

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Artist: Duchamp

Title: L.H.O.O.Q. (phonetically in french “there is a fire down below”

Date: 1917

Location: Paris, on loan to MNAM

Medium: readymade, Postcard(mona lisa) with pencil-drawn moustache

Subject: mona lisa with pencil facial hair, gender reversal, possible dadasim/rejecting traditional art.

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Artist: Asger Jorn

Title: The Avant-Garde Doesn’t Give Up

Date: 1962

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Medium: Oil Paint on appropriated oil painting

Subject: references to Duchamp, “bringing the work into the present”, appropriation, devalue traditional art

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Artist: Asger Jorn

Title: The Worrying Duck (Modification)

Date: 1959

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Medium: Appropriated oil paint

Subject: Celebrating bad painting, “Museums are where Art goes to die”, making art to participate in the here and now, Anti-Commodification of Art.

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What is “The Spectacle”

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The way the entire society capitulates ceases to resist their enslavement.

Entirely unaware that they enslave themselves

“Images are the most powerful tool”

“The spectacle desensitizes”

“Concrete inversion of life”

“A social relationship between people… mediated by images”

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Artist: Asger Jorn

Title: Paris by Night

Date: 1959

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Medium: appropriated oil painting

Subject: Anti-Commodification of Art

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Artist: Guy Debord and Asger Jorn

Title: Memoires

Date: 1957

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Medium: screenprint, collage

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Artist: Situationist International

Title: Life Continues To Be Free And Easy

Date: 1959

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Medium: collage, text, postage stamp, hand-colored figures, screenprint

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Artist: Guy Debord

Title: Society of the Spectacle

Date: 1967 (Film: 1973)

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Artist: Atelier Populaire

Title: Return to Normal

Date: 1968

Location: Paris

Medium: Screenprint

Subject: post 1968 protests, society returning to “the spectacle”

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Artist: Atelier Populaire

Title: The police post themselves at the School of Fine Arts, the Fine Arts students poster the streets.

Date: May 1968

Location: Paris

Medium: Screenprint

Subject: May 1968 Protests, Student uprising.

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Artist: Atelier Populaire

Title: The Fight Continues

Date: May 1968

Location: Paris

Medium: Screenprint

Subject: unifying Students, Artists, and Workers.

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What is Nouvelle Vague?

What are its trademark characteristics?

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Nouvelle Vague means New Wave filmmaking.

Characterized by Jump Cuts, Hand-held camera shots, breaking the 4th wall(actors addressing the camera/audience), on-location filming(instead of studio filming), a disjointed narrative, frequent or sudden changes in filming style.

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What is Mise-en-scène?

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“placement of the scene”: everything in front of the camera, the visual setting.

a move toward Film as Art and Social Commentary.

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What is Dziga Vertov Group?

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Influenced by filmmaker, Dziga Vertov (Man with a movie camera, 1929)

Membership: Jean-Luc Godard, Gorin

Date: 1972

Concepts: Viewer should not be emotionally involved, instead be Critical.

Unidentifiable Visual Objects.

*Tout Va Bien: *First DVG commercial effort.

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What is High Modernism?

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Art for Art’s sake.

Formalism

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Artist: Hamilton, Richard

Title: Just What is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing

Date: 1956

Location: London, This it Tomorrow show, WhiteChapel Art Gallery

Medium: collage

Subject: Consumerism.

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Artist: Don McCullin and Peter Hobbs

Title: Painting at a Bomb Site

Date: 1960

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Medium: Photography of Painting in UK bomb site

Subject: 1945 bomb site instead of white cube gallery.

It asks questions more than presents info.

UK is struggling compared to US

…Individualists like Pollock are somewhat repugnant to UK’s collective efforts

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What are three differences between *The Typographic Man *and The Graphic Man?

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Mechanical vs. Organic

Sequential vs. Simultaneity

Self-Expression vs. Collaboration

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What is Hot Media vs. Cool Media

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Hot Media requires effort… reading

Cool Media requires almost no effort… Video

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What does “*The Medium is the Message” *mean?

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From McLuhan.

The creation and utilization of the medium has a greater effect on human culture than HOW the medium is used.

It doesn’t matter if someone uses a light bulb for reading a book, or lighting up a litebrite… it has essentially changed the way humans communicate by it’s existence.

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What are the different arguments of Greenberg, Mcluhan, and Debord?

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Kitsch is a product of Industry and has produced a Universal Cultural Literacy

Mass media is it’s own product and indication of universal involvement.

The spectacle (mass media) is not a collection of images, but a social relationship among people, that is mediated by images.

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What is Cybernetics?

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The field of study concerned with communications and control systems in both living organisms and machines.

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What was Andy Warhol concerned about with his art?

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Circulation

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What does Pop Art concern itself with?

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Draws our attention to the commodification of Art and Life.

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Artist: Rosenquist

Title: F111

Date: 1964-65

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Medium: paint on aluminum

Subject: intersection of Commodification, War, and Art.

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