Contemporary Art Movements Quiz

Institutional Critique

• Key Artists/Works: Hans Haacke, Shapolski et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time-Social System, as of May 1, 1971

• Concept: Analyzing and questioning the role of institutions in shaping art.

Performance Art

• Categories: Action, Task, Ritual

• Key Artists/Works: Carolee Schneemann, Eye Body, 36 Transformative Actions for Camera, 1963; Vito Acconci, Trademarks, 1970; Chris Burden, Transfixed, 1974

• Focus: Defining performance art through different approaches. Body as subject/object in performance.

Body Art

• Concept: Using the body as a medium and subject within art.

• Examples: The body as both subject and object, as seen in performance art.

Feminism

• Key Concepts: 3 stages of feminism.

• Key Artists/Works: Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-9; Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro, Womanhouse, 1972; Mary Kelly, Post-Partem Document, 1978

Postmodernism

• Sub-Categories: Neoconservative and Post-structural.
• Key Concepts: Pastiche, Textuality.

• Key Artists/Works: Julian Schnabel, Exile, 1980; Barbara Kruger We Won’t Play Nature To Your Culture, 1983
• Influence: Mulvey's Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975); Martha Rosler, First Lady (Pat Nixon); Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #7, 1978; Sarah Charlesworth, April 21, 1978, 1978

Reconsidering History

• Key Concepts: Subjects of history, identity, narrative.

• Key Artists/Works: Group Material, AIDS Timeline, 1989; Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (USA Today), 1990; Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum, 1992; Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Man Reading Newspaper); Kehinde Wiley, An Economy of Grace, 2014

• Focus: Exploring historical subjects and identity through art.

Abject Art

• Key Artist/Work: Robert Gober, Untitled, 1991
• Emphasis: Representing aspects often considered unpleasant or disturbing.

Renewal of Drawing

• Concept/Focus: Drawing as erasure.

• Key Artist/Work: William Kentridge, Felix in Exile, 1994

Installation and Large-Scale Video Art

• Focus: Installation and large video art in art practice.

• Key Artists/Works: Douglas Gordon, 24 Hour Psycho, 1993; Bill Viola, The Crossing, 1996

Pictorial Photography

• Key Artist/Work: Sam Taylor Wood, Soliloquy I, 1998

Narratives

• Focus: Relating narratives in art.
• Key Artist/Work: Thomas Hirschhorn, Gramsci Monument, 2013

Conceptual Art

• Sub-Categories: Sculpture in the expanded field, institutional critique, performance – body art.

• Key Artists: John Baldessari, Michael Asher

• Key Works: John Baldessari, This Is Not to Be Looked At, 1968; John Baldessari, Baldessari Sings LeWitt, 1972; Michael Asher, Pomona College Project, 1970