Art History-Semester 2
umbrella term for performance art and body art sometimes sadomasochistic
Conceptual art
-initially a means to record travel, likenesses -Migrant Mother- intentionally cropped and used more like social realism, photographer sponsored by govt -then moves beyond this into avant garde
Development of photography
Austerity and machine like quality of minimalism\ Minimalism = Logic Performance art = ideas and language over logic
Performance art and Conceptual art reaction against
"period after modernism" values of modern art erode as new tech and general apprehension about the future of modernism rises stylistically diverse, critiques modernism appropriation, identity, local concerns 60s and 70s: people besides white Christian men can assert their difference
Postmodernism
Essay by Linda Nochlin -fewer opportunities, barred from life drawing and formal classes -craft considered not museum worthy -exceptions like Artemesia Gentileschi (had artist father) -institutional barriers, not individual failings movements of the 70s and 80s diversify art world
Why Are There No Great Women Artists?
????? Bounce
girl where is it