Exam #2 Study Guide
Exam #2 will be given on October 28 and will cover
Arnason pages 472 - 517, 532 - 556, 581 - 597 & 615 - 637 and Fineberg pages172 - 345 & 354 - 365
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| Key Images Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images. |
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| Artist | Title | Date | Thumbnail
Image |
Barnett Newman |
Vir Heroicus
Sublimis |
1950 - 51 |
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| John Cage | 4'33" | 1952 |  |
| Jasper Johns | Flag | 1954-55 | 
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| Robert Rauschenberg | Untitled (Man with the White Shoes) | 1954 |  |
| Robert Frank | Trolley- New Orleans | 1955 - 56 |  |
Mark Rothko |
Green and Tangerine on Red |
1956 |
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| Frank Stella | Die Fahne Hoch | 1959 |  |
| Yves Klein | Leap Into the Void | 1960 |  |
| Andy Warhol | 32 Campbell's Soup Cans | 1961 - 62 |  |
| Roy Lichtenstein | Drowning Girl | 1963 |  |
| James Rosenquist | F-111 | 1965 |  |
| Joseph Kosuth | One and Three Chairs | 1965 |  |
| Yoko Ono | Cut | 1965 |  |
| Ed Kienholz | The State Hospital | 1966 |  |
| Donald Judd | Untitled | 1968 |  |
| Carl Andre | Steel Magnesium Plain | 1969 |  |
| Robert Smithson | Spiral Jetty | 1970 |  |
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| Christo and Jeanne-Claude | Wrapped Reichstag | 1979 |  |
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Key Terms Know the definition and historical significance of the following terms. |
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1968 |
Entropy |
Plato's Forms |
Anti Form |
Epiphany |
Pop Art |
The Beat Generation |
Fluxus |
Postmodernism |
Benday Dots |
Happening |
Process Art |
California Funk |
Hard Edge Painting |
Post-Minimalism |
Combine |
Installation |
Purified or post-painterly abstraction |
Conceptualism |
Literalism |
Semiotics |
Consumer Culture |
Marshall Plan |
Silkscreen |
Depoliticized media spectacle |
Minimalism |
Situationists International |
Earthwork |
Neo-Dada |
Structuralism |
Encaustic |
Nouveau Realisme |
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| People Know the contributions, and the significance of those contributions, each of the following people made to the history of art. |
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| John Cage | Michael Fried |
Allan Kaprow |
| Guy Debord | Gutai Art Association |
Robert Morris |
| Questions to consider |
| Rauschenberg said, "Painting relates to both art and life. I try to act in that gap between the two." Explain what he meant by this. |
Why are the works of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg considered a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art? In what ways are the works of Rauschenberg and Johns both impersonal and personal? |
| What was the main source of inspiration for Pop artists? |
| How do the works of west coast Pop artists differ from the works of east coast Pop artists? |
| What goal did the Minimalists have for their works? What characterizes Minimalist works? |
| What were some of the main arguments against Minimalism? |
| What did Frank Stella mean when he said "what you see is what you see?" |
| Why were the artists of the 60s and 70s compelled to dematerialize the art object? |