ArtH 4301 midterm
Joseph Beuys, I like America and America likes me, 1974
(German Nazi) Lives in a room with a cyote for 3 days, cyote is symbol of American aggression (imperialism), never sets foot on American soil, is carried from plane to gallery and back.
Lorraine O'Grady, Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, 1981
(Miss black middle class) wore a dress made out of white gloves, came into a gallery screaming poetry about ethnic class.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (portrait of ross in L.A.) 1991
*not actual image* him and his lovers weight combined to form a mountain of candy that was meant to be taken by visitors, forces the institution/ gallery to be generous.
Kara Walker, cut, 1998
*not actual work* piece was read as her most autobiographical piece.
joseph kosuth, one and three chairs, 1965
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Chris Burden, shoot, 1971
A friend shot him point blank in the arm while being video taped.
Hannah Wilke, SOS startification object series, 1974
Fashion poses with pieces of gum made into volvular shapes placed all over. Argued that she was too pretty to make her point.
Donald Judd, untitled, 1968
Intent to look mass produced, made out of readily available materials, intended to represent something structural and 3 dimensional, specified but not built by artist, argued that it gives the impression of illusion because it is very slick and it doesn't display how it was constructed.
Frank Stella, Die Fahne Hoch, 1959
Jewish artist,titled paintings in german, uses honest materials and forms, but has a strong title, creates frustration.
Andres Serrano, Piss christ, 1989
Large photograph of crucifix in waste/urine, offensive to some because it represents a set of beliefs and values, stirred controversy because Serrano was the recipient of a $15, 000 grant from the NEA. Jesse helms wrote a letter to the president expressing his anger, calling Serrano a jerk and his work sacrilegious.
Names project, aids quilt, 1987-now
Meant to commemorate the lives of loved ones who died from aids.
Annie Sprinkle, Public Cervix Announcement, 1989
Opens her vagina and invites a people from audience to view her cervix. Brings audience into main focus vs performer, part of post-**** modernism, not a sexual work, informing women about womens health and the body.
Silence = death project, logo, 1987
Pink upside down triangle used in Nazi camps to mark homosexuality, re-appropriated it for a positive use, shows a relational truth with the = symbol. Created by Act-up: an aids coalition to unite power.
kitsch
Popular, commercial culture Product of the Industrial Revolution Mechanical, Fake, Same, Deceptive Often done in "realistic" manner
Chris Ofili, the holy virgin mary, 1997
Shows and african american female with and exposed breast made of elephant dung, painting itself rests on elephant dung, butterflies surrounding piece are actual images of vaginas.
formalism
Strict observance of the established rules, traditions and methods employed in the arts. It can also refer to the theory of art that relies heavily on the organization of forms in a work rather than on the content.
Richard Prince, untitled (cowboys), 1992
Uses cowboys from marlboro ads, takes out brand, makes them "larger than life", could say that it critiques masculinity. *not actual image
General idea, one year of AZT, 1991
Walls are the amount of drugs needed to sustain the body of some one infected with aids takes in a year, the floor is the amount needed to take daily.
Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1965
audience becomes the piece vs the performer, brings up the issue of gender violence, duration piece.
Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different so appealing, 1955-1956
consumption, kitsch to avante garde, start of pop art, satire, woman is an "object" in the home, sexual humor.
Adrian piper, cornered, 1998
displays 2 birth certificates of her father (1 black and 1 white), directly engages the audience of mostly white people, monologue is based off "I am Black." flows through peoples possible assumptions, being black should be a fact about her equal to the fact about where she was born.
Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 0, 1974
duration piece, 6hours long, audience given option to use a rose with thorns, a gun with a single bullet, scissors, a knife....a total of 72 items, people went further than she thought they would, when it was over she left and everyone ran away.
Dread Scott, what is the proper way to display a US flag? 1989
flag is a symbol for our nation, it is iconic, piece is all about the audience interaction, guest book becomes central voice for piece, directly affected the issue of flag burning, artist name was taken from the slave dred scott.
Christo and Jeanne Claude, running fence, 1976
getting out of gallery and to the people, temporary piece, took a workforce to assemble, self funded work.
Louise Lawler, Pollock and Tureen arranged by me, and mrs. burton tremaine, connecticut, 1984
gives credit for who arranged piece of art, and where it is. Points out how art becomes and over the couch/domesticated form. (equalizes art and object sin space.)
Mike Bidlo, the origin of the world, 1995-96
made a fake duchamp and O'Keefe and placed them together to represent the female genitals.
Fred Wilson, mining the museum, 1994
modes of transportation (1770-1910) KKK mask, slave shackles, and a whipping post are placed in various rooms right next to "normal" historical objects.
Gran Fury, men: use condoms or beat it, 1988
name came from a type of police car that was used at the time, intended to represent communal outrage, talking about the issue of men transmitting it to women.
Roni Horn, Things Happen Again: a this and a that, 1986
objects that are gender ambiguous, different spatial relationships, slightly concave or convex.
Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975
reads text about men and relationships, highlights her feminine sexual parts with paint, then pulls words from a critic out of her vagina and reads it to the audience, meant to instill audience discomfort. Argument than a dancer uses body (more feminine) and a film maker uses mind (more masculine).
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962
repeated image in a series of columns, creating a single piece.
Sherrie Levine, After piet mondrian, 1983
reproductions of a photograph of an original work. Idea that the only truly original art left is sculpture, but author is past the point of copy right rules or standards.
Judy Chicago, The dinner party, 1979
runners and place settings represent women in history (13), each plate is an interpretation of the vagina, 999 womens names written on floor. Argument that it downplays a womans achievements to basic anatomy, remained in storage for 25 years after created.
Robert Morris, Box with the sound of its own making, 1961
sculpture becomes architecture, uses difficult materials.
Nayland Blake, Gorge, 1998
self identifies as a bi-racial/sexual, watermelon is thought to be black identified object, is fed non stop for 60 min by a black man, his lover?
Mierle Ukeles, touch sanitation, 1979-81
shook the hand of every sanitation worker in NYC, points to ideas of social issues, public maintenance done by men, private maintenance done by women.
Betye Saar, the liberation of aunt jemima, 1972
stereotype of a domestic slave, instance of racial marketing/advertising, has intimations of liberation, mirrors inside show figure repeated to represent that the image is the case of many not few, supposed to show a disconnect between actual reality and imagined reality, has a black pride fist, guns, and domestic service attire.
Andrea Fraser, Museum highlights, 1989
takes a group of people on what they think is a real museum tour, but artist is guide and takes them around to the museum spaces instead of the works or art. (drinking fountain, cafeteria, etc) She memorized the product marketing material from the manufacturers and spoke about them like they were exciting pieces of art.
Dan Flavin, the diagonal of may 25th, 1963
uses light an gallery space, changes mood of gallery, ready made object, renewal of piece, unusual placement, phenomenology, artist always dedicated works.
Coco Fusco and guillermo gomez-pena, two AmerIndians Visit the west, 1992-1994
visitors can pay fee to take pictures with them, have them perform dances and/or songs. Wrote about their experience and said that peoples need to feel distance from works are socialized responses, (children didn't automatically respond in such a way.)
robert mapplethorpe, self portrait, 1978
whip in rectum with artist looking directly at the camera/you, highly controlled formal photograph, ask the questions...What is he doing to himself? What is he doing to me? Artist participated in and photographed sado-massochist acts, flowers, and classical nudes for a single exhibit.
Roy Litchtenstein, drowning girl, 1963
woman in distress, comic art made into high art, Kitsch, mechanized dots painted by artist.