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ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 1. Performance Art Dramatic presentation by visual artists as distinguished from theater artists such as actors and dancers in front of an audience, usually apart from a formal theat...

ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 1. Performance Art Dramatic presentation by visual artists as distinguished from theater artists such as actors and dancers in front of an audience, usually apart from a formal theatrical setting. performance art as action : Carolee Schneemann, Eye Body, 36 Transformative Actions for Camera, 1963 performance as task : Vito Acconci, Trademarks, 1970 performance as ritual : Chris Burden, Transfixed, 1974 2. Postmodernism Post-World War II intellectual movement and cultural atti- tude focusing on cultural pluralism and release from the confines and ideology of Western high culture. 3. Pictures Genera- a loose circle of American artists who came to artistic tion maturity and critical recognition in the 80s. Met exhibition, appropriation of images from the consumer and media saturated age Cindy Sherman was one of the artists 4. Installation Art an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. 5. Body Art Art in which the human body is used in art and "as" art the body as both the subject and object of the work 6. pastiche Deprived styles of context and sense Artists: Clemente, Kiefer, Salle, Schnabel 7. Drawing as Era- Drawing and Erasing to create an image sure 8. identity, Identity Artists often explore the characteristics that determine our and Narrative personal and social identity. They construct a sense of who we are as individuals, as a society, or as a nation. They 1 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j question stereotypes and conventions while exploring at- tributes such as gender, sexuality, race, nationality and heritage. Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled Man Reading Newspaper, from the Kitchen Table Series, 1990 Kehinde Wiley, An Economy of Grace, 2014 9. Feminism A female movement for gender equality this is Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-9 facts: 3 stages of feminism Art Since 1900: 1975 Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro, Womanhouse, 1972 Mary Kelly, Post-Partem Document: Documentation VI, Pre-Writing Alphabet, Exergue and Diary, 1978 10. texuality Text as a space of multiple writings, none of them original Theorists: Fredric Jameson, Craig Owens 11. abject art (Smith, the reexploring of a trauma Gober) Psychologically charged substance,often imagined, which exists somewhere between a subject or person and an object or thing Theorist Julian Kristeva - "abjection is a condition in which subjecthood is troubled 'where meaning collapses'" 12. Carolee Schnee- Performance art as action, Carolee Schneemann pushed mann, Eye Body, the boundaries of artistic and sexual expression and 36 Transforma- helped shape the canon of feminist art. tive Actions for Camera, 1963 2 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 13. Vito Ac- Performance art as task, Vito Acconci was one of the first conci, Trade- to experiment with performance art, in which the artist's marks, 1970 own body was treated like clay—a material to be manipu- lated, altered, posed, punished, and displayed. In Trade- marks, Acconci established a task to execute and then performed it diligently, biting as many parts of his naked body as he could reach and documenting his self-mutila- tion with photographs and printer's ink 14. Chris Burden, Performance art as ritual, Burden considered the Volk- Trans-fixed, 1974 swagen Beetle "the 'people's car," so his crucifixion liber- ated not just himself but everyone else as well. The title Trans-fixed reminds of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The performance also recalls the concept of transubstantia- tion, the process by which the Eucharistic bread and wine (communion) become 'Christ's body and blood. 15. 3 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 3 stages of Fem- 1. Women struggle for equal rights inism (Art Since 2. Insisted on fundamental differences between women 1990: 1975) and men 3. Critiqued women within patriarchal society 16. Judy Chica- Feminist Art, worked with a group of students and local go and Miriam artists to transform a dilapidated house in Los Angeles into Shapiro, Woman a setting for a series of imaginative installations. visitors house, 1972 came to see Woman house, which later captured a global audience 17. Judy Chicago, Feminist Art, The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s The Dinner Party, feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is 1974-79 presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized. The Dinner Party comprises a massive ceremonial banquet, arranged on a triangular table with a total of thirty-nine place set- tings, each commemorating an important woman from history. 18. Mary Kel- Feminist Art, Mary Kelly's Documentation VI is one part ly, Post-Partum of a larger installation, Post-Partum Document, which ex- Document: Doc- plores the relationship between the artist and her son over umentation VI, six years. Pre-Writing Al- phabet, Exergue and Diary, 1978 4 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 19. Martha Rosler, From the series 'Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful' First Lady Postmoderism and the Pictures Generation (Pat Nixon), 1967-1972 20. Cindy Sherman, Postmodernism and the Pictures Generation Untitled Film Still #7, 1978 21. Barbara Kruger, Postmodernism and the Pictures Generation We Won't Play Nature to Your Culture, 1983 22. Sarah Postmodernism and the Pictures Generation Charlesworth, April 21,1978 5 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 23. Julian Schnabel, Postmodernism : Pastiche Exile, 1980 24. Neoconservative Reacted to modernist style abstract, glass and steel, postmodernism painting (pastiche) Characteristics: Return to ornament, figuration, narrative In favor of mixing archaic styles Reconciled itself w/ the public desire (market) Artists: Clemente, Kiefer, Salle, Schnabel 25. Post-structural Questioned originality of the artist and authority of the postmodernism tradition (textuality) Advanced a critique of representation Opposed to modernism Fragmented text as counter to modern unified text 26. Group Materi- Postmodernismdiagrammed a decade of chronological re- al, AIDS Timeline, lationships, patterns, and ruptures, conveyed both in a 1989 long-form wall text written by the artists and in the ex- hibition's assortment of material fragments apportioned above and below the dateline's calendar tally. 27. Felix Gonza- his work has a private subject; private content of his life lez-Torres, Unti- and public space of consumption; museum must replenish 6 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j tled (USA Today), candy; ideal weight of 175 pounds; ideality was gesturing 1990 towards something not always obtainable; limitedness of art 28. Fred Wilson, Min- Reconsidering History and Subjects of History ing the Museum, about how museum collections are assembledmeaning 1992 within context of museums 29. Rachel Reconsidering History and Subjects of History Whiteread, House, 1993 30. Adrian Piper, Identity and Narrative Cornered, 1988 31. Robert Gober, Abject Art Untitled, 1991 7 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 32. William Ken- Renewal of Drawing - foregrounding of erasure tridge, Felix in Exile, 1994, Char- coal drawing for animation 33. Douglas Gordon, Installation and large-scale video art 24 Hour Psycho, 1993 34. Bill Viola, The Installation and large-scale video art Crossing, 1996 35. Sam Tay- Pictorial Photography lor-Wood, Solilo- quy I, 1998 36. Institutional Cri- the act of critiquing an institution as artistic practice, the tique institution usually being a museum or an art gallery Hans Haacke, Shapolski et al. Manahatten Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time-Social System, as of May 1, 1971 37. Installation Art 8 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j The combining of elements into a singular artwork that is specifically located in one place; an artwork that exists only in the place in which it was/is installed, and is not able to be relocated like a painting or print. 38. Virtuality imagery created by computer technology of objects and phenomena that produces an imaginary picture of actual things, people, and experiences 39. Globalism the abstraction through which we come to envision what artistic production all over the world at the same time might look like. 40. Pictorial Photog- an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of raphy subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality. 41. Conceptual John Baldessari, This Is Not to Be Looked At, 1968 (Art Artist Since 1900 p 577) Baldessari Sings LeWitt, 1972 - avail- able on youtube Michael Asher, Pomona College Project, 1970 sculpture in the expanded field - Krauss theory and dia- gram 42. Michael Asher, architecture Pomona College Project, 1970 43. performance art nakey woman as action : Carolee Schnee- mann, Eye Body, 36 Transforma- tive Actions for Camera, 1963 9 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 44. performance as biting man task : Vito Acconci, Trade- marks, 1970 45. performance as guy on car ritual : Chris Bur- den, Transfixed, 1974 46. Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey argues that analyzing pleasure, or beauty, "Visual Pleasure destroys it, and in regards to the portrayal of women in film, and Narrative this becomes her ultimate goal—an attempt to attack the Cinema 1975 satisfaction and reinforcement of the ego that represents the high point of film history 47. Martha Rosler, n protest against the Vietnam War. The photomontages First Lady Pat in this series seamlessly combine images of the war. By Nixon, from the conjoining images of war and domesticity so that their series Bringing subjects appear to share the same space, Rosler alludes the War Home: to the phrase "living room war," coined to characterize House Beautiful, the Vietnam War, the first major military conflict to be 1967-72 extensively televised. 10 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 48. Cindy Sherman, a series of 69 photographs in which the artist captured Untitled Film Still herself reenacting pop culture clichés about women #7, 1978 49. Postmodernism Laura Mulvey "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema and the Pictures 1975 Generation Martha Rosler, First Lady, Pat Nixon, from the series Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, 1967-72 Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #7, 1978 Sarah Charlesworth, April 21, 1978, 1978 50. Postmodernism : Julian Schnabel, Exile, 1980 neoconservative postmodernism (Art Since 1900 1984b) Pastiche 51. Postmodernism : Barbara Kruger, We Won't Play Nature To Your Culture , post-structural 1983 postmodernism (Art Since 1900 1984b) Textuality 11 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 52. Reconsidering Group Material, AIDS Timeline, 1989 History and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (USA Today), 1990 Subjects of Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum, 1992 History 53. Carrie Mae staged and photographed a fictional drama, playing the Weems, Unti- lead role herself. In the context of a simple setting that re- tled (Man Read- mains constant—the artist's own kitchen table—the series ing Newspaper), explores the shifting roles occupied by the strong central from the Kitchen female character: lover, friend, and mother. Together the Table Series, images and texts suggest that while the woman is many 1990 things to others, she is first and foremost rooted in herself. 54. Kehinde Wiley, represents a significant departure from Wiley's previous An Economy of subject matter by depicting African-American women, his Grace, 2014 first-ever series dedicated to female subjects. The models for the paintings were cast on the streets of New York City. Their poses are based on historical portraits of society women by Jacques-Louis David, Thomas Gainsborough and John Singer Sargent, among others. 55. Abject art, Together the three works represented pleasure, disaster, Robert Gober, and, in the present work, resuscitation, Gober has said. Untitled, 1991 In that disquieting setting, the floor-bound sculptures re- sembled felled bodies—a particularly resonant form at the time, as the AIDS epidemic grew in ferocity, claiming thousands of lives. 12 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 56. Renewal of Draw- a form of erasure in which the traces of erased lines ing - foreground- remain on the page, forming a faint charcoal mist. This is ing of erasure a regression back along the history of drawing toward a William Ken- "deskilled" graphic mark. tridge, Felix in Exile, 1994 57. Douglas Gordon, marked the beginning of the artist's ongoing method of al- 24 Hour Psycho, tering, monumentalizing, and alienating viewers' common 1993 Installation understandings of the moving picture and large-scale video art 58. Bill Viola, The uses new media's potential to create sound and light ef- Crossing, 1996 fects to create a powerful, multi-sensory experience for the Installation and viewer, double sided, Revive the relationship between art large-scale video and spiritualityMethod invites meditative thought, as if in art front of a religious icon Fire and water = religious symbols of life, death, & purification. 59. Pictorial Photog- raphy 13 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j Sam Taylor depict human dramas and isolated emotional instances, Wood, Soliloquy such as a quarreling couple and tense social gather- I, 1998 ings—people in solitary, awkward, or vulnerable moments 60. Narratives Hirschhorn's will "to establish a definition of monument, Thomas to provoke encounters, to create an event, and to think Hirschhorn, Gramsci today." Gramsci Monument, 2013 61. Virtuality, Com- munity, and Glob- alism Rikrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free), 1992 Harun Rarocki, Serious Games 1: Immersion, 2009 Ai Weiwei,Fairy- tale,2007 62. Rikrit Tiravanija, held in 1992 at the 303 Gallery in the SoHo neighborhood Untitled (Free), of Manhattan. For the occasion, the artist moved the con- 1992 tents of the gallery's back rooms into the exhibition space, placing the business of art on display, and transformed the emptied office into a temporary kitchen, where he prepared Thai vegetable curry and servedit free to anyone who wanted it. 14 / 15  ARTH 374 Study Guide Exam #2 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_e5al4j 63. Harun Rarocki, In his video installations Serious Games I-IV, Harun Faroc- Serious Games ki explores how the U.S. military employs video game 1: Immersion, technology to train troops for war and to treat an aftereffect 2009 of war, post-traumatic stress disorder 64. Ai Weiwei,Fairy- This film documents an artwork produced for Documenta tale,2007 12 in which Ai invited 1,001 Chinese citizens of various ages and backgrounds to come to Kassel, Germany, dur- ing the exhibition and examine their dreams for the future, as well as the artist's own. The film has English subtitles and runs 152 minutes. 15 / 15