Art 100    
Art Appreciation    
 
Lecture and Reading Notes
Chapter 25: Postmodernity and Global Art
 
Key Images
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

Appropriation   Identity Politics
The Aura Film still Neo Expressionism
Walter Benjamin Globalism Photorealism
Body Politics Hyperrealism Postmodernism
 
Questions to Consider
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

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?