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1.1.1 Reading: The New Yorker: Dr. Louis Menand: “Unpopular Front” and Boston University: Eva Cockcroft: “Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War”
Links: The New Yorker: Dr. Louis Menand: “Unpopular Front” (HTML) and Boston University: Eva Cockcroft: “Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read Dr. Menand’s entire article, which provides you with an overall, contemporary introduction to the way art and culture became involved in an ideological battle during the Cold War. For Cockcroft’s article, please click the “Cockcroft.pdf” link and then read this entire PDF, which gives you a more specific view of the way art was used as an ideological tool during the Cold War.
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1.1.2 Reading: MoMA: Amy Horschak: “An Interview with Jay Levenson, Director, International Program, The Museum of Modern Art”; Michigan State University: Christoph Grunenberg: “The Modern Art Museum”; and E-Flux: Simon Sheikh: “Positively White Cube Revisited”
Links: MoMA: Amy Horschak: “An Interview with Jay Levenson, Director, International Program, The Museum of Modern Art” (HTML); Michigan State University: Christoph Grunenberg: “The Modern Art Museum” (PDF); and E-Flux: Simon Sheikh: “Positively White Cube Revisited” (HTML)
Instructions: For Horschak and Sheikh, please read these entire webpages. For Grunenberg’s article, please click the link in the “Tuesday, April 20” section and then read this entire PDF. Horschak offers a short interview that specifically addresses the role the museum had during the Cold War, while the other readings explain why the MoMA was perceived to alienate its public by creating the so-called “white cube” experience (i.e., a completely artificial and sanitized environment that reduced art to a dead object).
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1.2.1 Reading: Sharecom’s “Greenberg: Modernism”
Link: Sharecom’s “Greenberg: Modernism” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the linked reading on Greenberg’s modernist approach.
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1.2.1 Reading: The Art Story: Justin Wolf’s Modern Art Concept: Formalism” and The Art Story’s “Art Critics Comparison: Clement Greenberg vs. Harold Rosenberg”
Links: The Art Story: Justin Wolf’s “Modern Art Concept: Formalism” (PDF), and The Art Story’s “Art Critics Comparison: Clement Greenberg vs. Harold Rosenberg” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read the first page as an introduction to Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, and Clement Greenberg. After you have finished reading the page, make sure to click the link at the bottom of the page to view “Major Works” and read the accompanying text to learn about how Greenberg and others approached these works. Then read the second page that compares Clement Greenberg’s approach to mid-twentieth century painting and that of his chief rival, Harold Rosenberg.
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1.2.2 Reading: The Art Story: Justin Wolf: “Post-Painterly Abstraction”
Links: The Art Story: Justin Wolf: “Post-Painterly Abstraction” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read the entire article for an introduction to a particular form of art that Greenberg advocated in the 1960s.
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1.2.2 Reading: Sharecom’s “Greenberg: Post Painterly Abstraction”
Link: Sharecom’s “Greenberg: Post Painterly Abstraction” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the essay on Clement Greenberg’s abstraction in full.
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1.2.3 Reading: The Art Story: Jessica Shaffer: “Helen Frankenthaler”
Link: The Art Story: Jessica Shaffer: “Helen Frankenthaler” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Helen Frankenthaler’s work.
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2.1.1 Reading: Situationist International Online: “Chronology”
Link: Situationist International Online: “Situationist Chronology” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read through Situationist Chronology for an introduction to the group’s activity.
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2.1.1 Reading: Guy Debord: “Report on the Construction of the Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency’s Conditions of Organization and Action”
Link: Guy Debord: “Report on the Construction of the Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency’s Conditions of Organization and Action” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to the main ideas and span of activities of this group. To get a better sense of Situationist activities, please examine the Situationist chronology here.
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2.1.2 Reading: Guy Debord: “Definitions”; Guy Debord and Gil J. Wolman: “A User’s Guide to Détournement”; and Guy Debord: “Theory of the Dérive”
Links: Guy Debord: “Definitions” (HTML); Guy Debord and Gil J. Wolman: “A User’s Guide to Détournement” (HTML); and Guy Debord: “Theory of the Dérive” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for more information on this group. All of these resources are in HTML format.
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2.1.3.1 Reading: Dr. Richard L. Edwards: “Uneasy Arrangements: Looking at Guy Debord’s Memoires”
Link: Dr. Richard L. Edwards: “Uneasy Arrangements: Looking at Guy Debord’s Memoires” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to this very interesting and thought-provoking artwork.
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2.1.3.2 Reading: Asger Jorn: “Détourned Painting”
Link: Asger Jorn: “Détourned Painting” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Jorn’s often humorous explanation about what modified paintings were. You can view two examples by Jorn here: The Disquieting Duck (gif) and The Avant-Garde Doesn’t Give Up (gif). Follow the link and scroll down the page to find the two titles.
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2.2.1 Reading: Dick Higgins “A Child’s History of Fluxus”
Link: Dick Higgins “A Child’s History of Fluxus” (HTML)
Instructions: Please red through this playful account on Fluxus’ history by one of the group’s member for an introduction to their activity.
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2.2.2.1 Reading: MoMA: “Nam June Paik” and the Museum of Broadcast Communications: “Paik, Nam June”
Links: MoMA: “Nam June Paik” (HTML) and the Museum of Broadcast Communications: “Paik, Nam June” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to the work of Fluxus artist Nam June Paik.
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2.2.2.2 Reading: George Maciunas Foundation: “Yoko Ono ‘Grapefruit’ at Stendhal Gallery”
Link: George Maciunas Foundation: “Yoko Ono ‘Grapefruit’ at Stendhal Gallery” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for more information on Yoko Ono.
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2.2.2.3 Reading: The Art Story: “Joseph Beuys” and Flash Art: Giancarlo Politi: “Joseph Beuys: We Are the Revolution”
Links: The Art Story: “Joseph Beuys” (PDF) and Flash Art: Giancarlo Politi: “Joseph Beuys: We Are the Revolution” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to the work of Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.
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2.3.1 Reading: Dictionary of Art Historians: “Lippard, Lucy”; Tate Papers: Lucy R. Lippard: “Curating by Numbers”; and Smithsonian Institution: “Lucy R. Lippard Papers, 1940s-2006, Bulk, 1968-1990”
Links: Dictionary of Art Historians: “Lippard, Lucy” (HTML); Tate Papers: Lucy R. Lippard: “Curating By Numbers” (PDF); and Smithsonian Institution: “Lucy R. Lippard Papers, 1940s-2006, Bulk, 1968-1990” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to this extremely important art critic’s work, which spans more than 50 years and coincides with the development of contemporary art. First, read the biographical notice and then read Lippard’s own text, where she reflects on her work as a critic and curator in the 1970s. Finally, have a glimpse at her extensive critical activity as stored in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
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2.3.2 Reading: The Art Story: Justin Wolf’s “Conceptual Art”
Link: The Art Story: Justin Wolf’s “Conceptual Art”
Instructions: Please read this page as an introduction to Conceptual art. When you are finished, click on the link at the bottom of the page to view groundbreaking works and read about three examples of Conceptual art.
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2.3.2.1 Reading: UbuWeb: “Hanne Darboven”
Link: UbuWeb: “Hanne Darboven” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to the main ideas of conceptual artist Hanne Darboven.
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2.3.2.2 Reading: Daniel Buren: “Beware! (1970)” and Tate Papers: Koen Brams: “Two Exhibition-Related Films by Jef Cornelis”
Links: UbuWeb: Daniel Buren: “Beware! (1970)” (HTML) and Tate Papers: Koen Brams: “Two Exhibition-Related Films by Jef Cornelis” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to the main ideas and span of activities of Daniel Buren. First, read the artist’s text, written in the 1970s, and then read the first section of Brams’s article, where the author describes very specific ways in which Buren realized and exhibited his work at that time.
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2.3.2.3 Reading: The Art Story: Justin Wolf: “Robert Smithson” and Robert Smithson: “Cultural Confinement”
Links: The Art Story: Justin Wolf: “Robert Smithson” (PDF) and Robert Smithson: “Cultural Confinement” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to the main ideas and span of activities of Robert Smithson.
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2.3.2.4 Reading: Flash Art: Germano Celant: “Notes for a Guerrilla War”; Tate Collection: “Giovanni Anselmo”; and MoMA: “Giovanni Anselmo”
Links: Flash Art: Germano Celant: “NotesforaGuerrillaWar” (HTML); Tate Collection: “Giovanni Anselmo” (HTML); and MoMA: “GiovanniAnselmo” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to the main ideas of the Italian art movement called Arte Povera (Poor Art) and to the work of Giovanni Anselmo.
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2.3.2.5 Reading: Tate Channel: John Baldessari: “Pure Beauty” and “Talking Art”
Links: Tate Channel: John Baldessari: “Pure Beauty” (Adobe Flash) and “Talking Art” (Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please watch these entire videos (approximately 14 minutes and 87 minutes, respectively) for an introduction to the main ideas of John Baldessari’s conceptual art.
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3.1 Reading: Linda Nochlin: “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
Links: Linda Nochlin: “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” (HTML)
Instructions: Please revisit the unit on feminism in ARTH 301 (Unit 6), and then read this entire webpage for an introduction to feminist interventions in art and culture.
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3.1 Reading: The Art History Archive: “Feminism & Feminist Art”
Link: The Art History Archive: “Feminism & Feminist Art” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the text for an introduction to the Feminist Art.
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3.1.2 Reading: Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: “The Dinner Party”
Link: Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: “The Dinner Party” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage and click the links for the five sections to gain information on this monumental example of feminist intervention designed by Judy Chicago.
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3.1.3 Reading: The Art Story: “Louise Bourgeois”
Link: The Art Story: “Louise Bourgeois” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Louise Bourgeois’s artwork.
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3.1.6 Reading: Smarthistory: Rachel Warriner: “Mary Kelly’s Postpartum Document”
Link: Smarthistory: Rachel Warriner: “Mary Kelly’s Postpartum Document” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to Mary Kelly’s art and her artwork Post-Partum Document.
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3.1.7 Reading: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: “Ana Mendieta”
Link: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: “Ana Mendieta” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for a biography of Ana Mendieta.
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3.1.7 Reading: UbuWeb: “Ana Mendieta: Selected Film Works”
Link: UbuWeb: “Ana Mendieta: Selected Film Works” (Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please watch this entire video (approximately 34 minutes) for an introduction to Mendieta’s work.
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3.2 Reading: Smarthistory: Dr. Virginia B. Spivey: “Performance Art: An Introduction”
Link: Smarthistory: Dr. Virginia B. Spivey: “Performance Art: An Introduction” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this page as an introduction to performance art.
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3.2.1 Reading: Artforum: Robert Horvitz: “Chris Burden”
Link: Artforum: Robert Horvitz: “Chris Burden”
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Chris Burden’s performance art.
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3.2.3 Reading: Smarthistory: JP McMahon: “Vito Acconci’s Following Piece”
Link: Smarthistory: JP McMahon: “Vito Acconci’s Following Piece” (HTML)
Instruction: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Vito Acconci’s performances.
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4.1 Reading: Georgetown University: Dr. Martin Irvine: “Approaches to Po-Mo”
Link: Georgetown University: Dr. Martin Irvine: “Approaches to Po-Mo” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to postmodernist rhetoric.
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4.2.1 Reading: The Art Story: Justin Wolf: “Neo-Expressionism”
Link: The Art Story: Justin Wolf: “Neo-Expressionism” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to the neo-expressionist movement.
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4.2.1.1 Reading: Flash Art: Helena Kontova: “Your History Is Not Our History”
Link: Flash Art: Helena Kontova: “Your History Is Not Our History” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Julian Schnabel’s work.
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4.2.1.3 Reading: The Art Story: “Georg Baselitz”
Link: The Art Story: “Georg Baselitz” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Georg Baselitz’s work.
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4.3.1 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Jeff Koons: Biography”
Link: PBS: Art21: “Jeff Koons: Biography” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Jeff Koons.
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4.3.2 Reading: Artforum: “Ashley Bickerton Talks to Steve Lafreniere – ’80s Then – Interview”
Link: Artforum: “Ashley Bickerton Talks to Steve Lafreniere – ’80s Then – Interview” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Ashley Bickerton’s work and the New York art scene in the 1980s.
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4.3.3 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Allan McCollum: Biography”
Link: PBS: Art21: “Allan McCollum: Biography” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Allan McCollum.
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4.4.1 Reading: AfterSherrieLevine: “The Anxiety of Influence – Head On: A Conversation between Sherrie Levine and Jeanne Siegel”
Link: AfterSherrieLevine: “The Anxiety of Influence – Head On: A Conversation between Sherrie Levine and Jeanne Siegel” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an interview with the artist.
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4.4.1 Reading: UbuWeb: “Sherrie Levine”
Link: UbuWeb: “Sherrie Levine” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Sherrie Levine’s work.
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4.4.3 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Barbara Kruger: Biography” and “Installation at Mary Boone Gallery”
Links: PBS: Art21: “Barbara Kruger: Biography” (Adobe Flash) and “Installation at Mary Boone Gallery” (Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to Barbara Kruger and an essay on her installation at the Mary Boone Gallery.
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5.1.1 Reading: PBS: Culture Shock: “Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc” and Arizona University: “Richard Serra: The Case of Tilted Arc”
Links: PBS: Culture Shock: “Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc” (HTML) and Arizona University: “Richard Serra: The Case of Tilted Arc” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to a case that many believed triggered the culture wars.
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5.1.2 Reading: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia: Janet Kardon: “The Perfect Moment,” Janet Kardon: “Robert Mapplethorpe Interview,” and David Joselit: “Robert Mapplethorpe’s Poses”; MIT: The Tech: Deborah A. Levinson: “Robert Mapplethorpe’s Extraordinary Vision”; and the Cincinnati Enquirer: Jackie Demaline: “Mapplethorpe Battle Changed the Art World”
Links: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia: Janet Kardon: “The Perfect Moment” (HTML), Janet Kardon: “Robert Mapplethorpe Interview” (HTML) and David Joselit: “Robert Mapplethorpe’s Poses” (HTML); MIT: The Tech: Deborah A. Levinson: “Robert Mapplethorpe’s Extraordinary Vision” (HTML); and the Cincinnati Enquirer: Jackie Demaline: “Mapplethorpe Battle Changed the Art World” (HTML)
Instructions: For the ICA readings, please scroll down to the “Download Essays from the Exhibition Catalogue” box, where you can find PDFs for all three readings. Please read these entire webpages and PDFs for an introduction to Robert Mapplethorpe’s retrospective exhibition The Perfect Momentand the controversy it created.
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5.2 Reading: Gilles Ivain [Ivan Chtcheglov]: “Formulary for a New Urbanism”
Link: Gilles Ivain [Ivan Chtcheglov]: “Formulary for a New Urbanism” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to the ways artists envisage creative and often poetic uses of a city. Although written in the 1950s by one of the members of the Situationist group, this reading encapsulates desires and aspirations of artists critiquing the gentrification in the 1980s.
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5.2.1 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Jenny Holzer: Biography”
Link: PBS: Art21: “Jenny Holzer: Biography” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Jenny Holzer.
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5.2.1 Reading: MoMA: Jennifer Roberts: “Jenny Holzer: Truisms”
Link: MoMA: Jennifer Roberts: “Jenny Holzer: Truisms” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for information on Holzer’s public artwork entitled Truisms.
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5.2.2 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Krzystof Wodiczko: Biography” and “Architecture & Therapy”
Links: PBS: Art21: “Krzystof Wodiczko: Biography” (HTML) and “Architecture & Therapy” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to and an interview with Krszystof Wodiczko.
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5.2.3 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Alfredo Jaar: Biography”
Link: PBS: Art21: “Alfredo Jaar: Biography” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Alfredo Jaar.
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5.3 Reading: MayflyBooks: Brian Holmes: “Extradisciplinary Investigations: Towards a New Critique of Institutions”
Link: MayflyBooks: Brian Holmes: “Extradisciplinary Investigations: Towards a New Critique of Institutions” (PDF)
Instructions: Please click the “Download” link and then read pages 53–61 in the PDF. This reading should give you an introduction to the main ideas and issues related to the Institutional Critique.
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5.3.1 Reading: Tate Gallery: Eva Meyer-Hermann: “Hans Haacke: Biography”
Link: Tate Gallery: Eva Meyer-Hermann: “Hans Haacke: Biography” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Hans Haacke’s work.
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5.3.2 Reading: UCLA: Department of Art: “Andrea Fraser”
Link: UCLA: Department of Art: “Andrea Fraser” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Andrea Fraser.
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6.1.1 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Mike Kelley: Biography” and “Language & Psychology”
Links: PBS: Art21: “Mike Kelley: Biography” (HTML) and “Language & Psychology” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to and an interview with Mike Kelley.
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6.1.2 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Paul McCarthy: Biography”
Link: PBS: Art21: “Paul McCarthy: Biography” (HMTL)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Paul McCarthy.
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6.1.3 Reading: Journal of Contemporary Art: “Natasha Leoff Interview with Annette Messager”
Link: Journal of Contemporary Art: “Natasha Leoff Interview with Annette Messager” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Annette Messager.
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6.1.4 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Kiki Smith: Biography” and “Family History & the History of Objects”
Links: PBS: Art21: “Kiki Smith: Biography” (HTML) and “Family History & the History of Objects” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to and an interview with Kiki Smith.
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6.1.5 Reading: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: “Robert Gober: Sculptures and Drawings”
Link: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: “Robert Gober: Sculptures and Drawings” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Gober.
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6.2.2 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Kara Walker: Biography” and “Projecting Fictions: ‘Insurrection! Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On’”
Links: PBS: Art21: “Kara Walker: Biography” (HTML) and “Projecting Fictions: ‘Insurrection! Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On’” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to and an interview with Kara Walker.
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6.2.4 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Yinka Shonibare: Biography”
Link: PBS: Art21: “Yinka Shonibare: Biography” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Yinka Shonibare.
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6.3.2 Reading: CTheory: “Extended-Body: Interview with Stelarc” and NeMe: “From Zombie to Cyborg Bodies – Extra Ear, Exoskeleton and Avatars by Stelarc”
Links: CTheory: “Extended-Body: Interview with Stelarc” (HTML) and NeMe: “From Zombie to Cyborg Bodies – Extra Ear, Exoskeleton and Avatars by Stelarc” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages for an introduction to the main ideas of Stelarc’s work.
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6.4.2 Reading: International Center for Photography: Brian Wallis: “Larry Clark”
Link: International Center for Photography: Brian Wallis: “Larry Clark” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage, ensuring to click “Next Page” at the bottom of each page, for information on Clark’s work.
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7.1 Reading: Tate Papers: Chin-tao Wu “Biennials without Borders?”; Jean Fisher: “The Other Story and the Past Imperfect”; Gilane Tawadros: “Reading and (Curating) from Right to Left”; and Nada Shabout: “Are Images Global?”
Links: Tate Papers: Chin-Tao Wu: “Binomials without Borders” (PDF); Jean Fisher: “The Other Story and the Past Imperfect” (PDF); Gilane Tawadros: “Reading (and Curating) from Right to Left” (PDF); and Nada Shabout: “Are Images Global?” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read these entire webpages, which address some of the concerns that contemporary artists face today in the global world, such as: Do an increasing number of temporary and biennial exhibitions around the world give an equal opportunity in the same way for artists coming from different parts of the world, especially to those who have been marginalized and excluded for so long?
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7.2.1 Reading: The Art Story: Anne Marie Butler: “Performance Art”
Link: The Art Story: Anne Marie Butler: “Performance Art” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for a brief introduction to a group of performance artists who use funny tactics to raise social awareness about globalization.
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7.2.1 Reading: The Yes Men: “Dow”
Link: The Yes Men: “Dow” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an explanation of one of the group’s performances.
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7.2.2 Reading: The New York Times: Melena Ryzik: “Reverend Billy’s Revelation: A Role for Money”
Link: The New York Times: Melena Ryzik: “Reverend Billy’s Revelation: A Role for Money” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for information on performance artist Bill Talen, also known as Reverend Billy, and his work.
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7.3.1 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Gabriel Orozco: Biography”
Link: PBS: Art21: “Gabriel Orozco: Biography” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Gabriel Orozco.
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7.3.2 Reading: PBS: Art21: “Doris Salcedo: Biography”
Link: PBS: Art21: “Doris Salcedo: Biography” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to Doris Salcedo.
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7.3.3 Reading: UbuWeb: “William Kentridge”
Link: UbuWeb: “William Kentridge” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this entire webpage for an introduction to William Kentridge.
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