| Art 100 | ||
| Art Appreciation | ||
Lecture and Reading Notes |
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Chapter 25: Postmodernity and Global Art |
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Key Images |
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| Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #48. 1979. | ||
| Jean-Michel Basquiat. Charles the First. 1982. | ||
| Barbara Kruger. Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am). 1987. | ||
| Marilyn Minter. Bottled Blonde. 2006. | ||
Key Terms |
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| Appropriation | Identity Politics | |
| The Aura | Film still | Neo Expressionism |
| Walter Benjamin | Globalism | Photorealism |
| Body Politics | Hyperrealism | Postmodernism |
Questions to Consider |
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| What is postmodernism? In what ways is it influenced by and reacting against modernism? | ||
| By the 1980s, how had modernism become traditional? | ||
| Why does it seem, at this point in the development of art, that there are no rules left to break? | ||
| What do most artists today wish to make art about? Rather than objects of beauty, what does most art since the 1980s consist of? | ||
| Where do Postmodern artists derive inspiration and influence? | ||
| Name at least three postmodern visual artists (not architects). | ||
| How has the globalization of culture impacted art? | ||
For the Final Exam |
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| Using the Art History Timeline in the back of the textbook, list the art periods and movements we have studied from prehistory to Postmodernism in chronological order. | ||
| Review all of the images you've studied for the final and for previous exams. What art material or technique were each made of (i.e. Brancusi's Bird in Space is a sculpture)? With what period, movement or style are each associated with? | ||