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Hello.
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About Art 21: Art in the 21st Century
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Okay
Contemporary
Art
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What?Contemporary Art (the past 25 years)
* a diverse range of artists who have succeeded
in giving memorable substance to creative
vision
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Why? to engage actively in your pursuit
of fresh knowledge*to arouse our curiosity, delight our senses, evoke our emotions,
and provoke questions and debate
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How? Thematically
*By looking at themes, we focus on the meaningof a work of art examined as a whole, including
the impact that materials, techniques, form, andsubject matter makes on content
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ANote about Subject Matter
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What, Why, and How
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Week 1Monday
June 27 THE BRITISH ART SCENE:WhatsWhat
An introduction and a broad map for studying contemporary
art in London; outline of historical background tocontemporary art.
Required Reading:
Julian Stallabrass, A Very Short Guide to Contemporary Art .
Michael Glover, The Tate Takes Off, Art News, April, 200, pp.
24-28.
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Julian Stallabrass
Senior Lecturer in Art History at
the Courtauld Institute of Art inLondon.
author of several books on art,
including the highly controversial
High Art Lite (1999), and is a frequent contributor to
publications including the Evening
Standard and the New Statesman
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� The artworld
expands
� Multi-media
� Globalism
� Commercialism
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The Art World Expands
Contemporary
art is
rich, diverseand
unpredictable
Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death
in the Mind of Someone Living, 1992, Tiger shark, glass, steel, 5%
formaldehyde solution, 213 cm × 518 cm (84 in × 204 in), Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City
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Rachel
Whiteread,
House, 1993
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Jenny Saville, Prop,
1990s
O i f Hi d A Hi
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Demographics
Overview of History and Art History
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The Pluralistic Seventies
Conceptual art
Performance Art
Feminist Art
Process Art
Multiculturalism
Earth Art
PhotorealismNew Image
Neo-Expressionism
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1970s Pluralism
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Art Dematerialized
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Art Historical
Conventions
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Earth Art
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Post-modernism
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Modernism
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Formalism
Art for Art ¶ s Sake
Clive Bell
Roger Fry
Clement Greenberg Mark Rothko, 1950s
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Andy Warhol,
M uhammed Ali , 1977
Alt ti
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Betye Saar, The Liberation of
Aunt Jemima. 1972.
Alternatives
toModernism
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Judy Chicago, The
Dinner Party , 1974-
79
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Old Art History:
�Connoisseurship
� Quality
�Style
�Genius
:
New Art History:
�Ideology
�Patriarchy
�Class
�Gender �Race
Postmodernism
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Film and Video
Ant Farm, M edia Burn, 1972
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Keith Haring
Jean-Michel
Basquiat
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Postmodern Theory
Images as social
constructs
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Gender and
Postmodernism
Cindy Sherman,
Untitled, 1978
Authorship
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Authorship
and Art
Jeff Koons, Rabitt, 1987
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Postmodernism challenged some of the
most basic ideas of modern art:
Originality,
Authorship,
and Cultural Progression
The Proliferation
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The Proliferation
of Media
F ax machines
CD Players
The F irst laptop
Cordless phones
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Media
Theory
How culture
comes to us--
TV, VCRs,
WWW«
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P M ( t d i ) T
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PoMo (postmodernism) Terms
Appropriation (taking someone else¶s image as your own)
Deconstruction (breaking down the meaning of representation,
often by
recontextualizing it)
Simulation (representing as real something that doesn¶t exist in
the world)
All these terms challenge the adage that in
a media-saturated world, it¶s the look that
counts.
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In 1980 a new record was set when Jasper Johns Three F lags
was Sold to the Whitney for 1 Million.
The most paid for a work of art by a living artist
R d P i f Li i A ti t
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Record Price for a Living Artist
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Jenny Holzer, Protect me from What I Want , 1983-85
Mr President Tear Down
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Mr. President, Tear Down
This Painting
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Sky Light, 1973 by Alma Thomas
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Black Like Me #2, 1992 by Glen Lignon
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Ed Ruscha, I Think I¶ ll 1983,
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Nice, 1954 by Nicolas De Stael
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The Bow , Edgar Degas, 1890
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Tate Britain
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Tate Britain
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Rooms 10-17:British Art
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Tate Modern
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Tate Modern
The Tate Modern - the world's
biggest modern art gallery, in a
beautiful building overlooking St
Paul's Cathedral
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Michael Craig-Martin in collaboration
with with Herzog & de Meuron, Swiss
Light, 1999
Tate Modern
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Tate Modern
Anti-
evolutionary
approach
Using 4
broad themes
to invite
comparisons
from
different
periodsGiorgio de Chirico , The
Uncertainty of the Poet 1913
, Oil on canvas support: 1060 x
940 mm frame: 1232 x 1125 x 73
mm
Jannis Kounellis Untitled 1979,
Charcoal, paper, arrows and stuffed
birds
displayed: 3600 x 5000 mm
installation
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At the heart
of each wing
is a large
central display, or
'hub', which
focuses on
one of the
pivotal
moments of
twentieth-
century art
history.
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Assignment 1
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Assignment 1
Tate Modern Object
Analysis
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June 29th
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