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The Final Quiz, which is cumulative and worth 45 points, will be available on Canvas by Saturday, December 12 and must be submitted before midnight on Wednesday, December 16. |
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Yellow Jacket demonstration December, 2018.
Macron = remove
government = resign
system = abolish
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Lunch counter sit-in, 1961 |
I Am A Man March, 1965. |
"Long Hot Summer of 1967" 159 events of civil unrest across the United States |
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Civil unrest in Watts, August, 1965. |
Newark Rebellion, 1967. |
Six days of unrest, 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. |
In Detroit, five days of unrest, 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. |
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Duane Hanson, Race Riot, 1968. |
Duane Hanson, Tourists II, 1988. Polyester resin, fiberglass and human paraphernalia. |
Columbia Student Protest, 1968.
More on the Columbia University Action
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Tommie Smith (gold medal) and John Carlos (bronze medal) protest at 1968 Olympics in Mexico City |
Louise Bourgeois, Filette (Little Girl) (Sweeter Version), 1968.
"In
Louise Bourgeois' work, we are often faced with the presence of subjects
who desire, and who desire sexually. They are not immediate figures
of desire but they position themselves clearly as operations of desire.
Bourgeois' vengeance on the constraints of the "wish to know"
is to create the disorder of the forbidden. The right to know is my
birth right." - Edward Lucie-Smith |
Eva Hesse, Hang Up, 1965 - 1966.
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece), 1966.
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950.
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Eva Hesse, Ringaround ARosie, 1965. |
Eva Hesse, Accession II,
1969. |
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“Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn’t a thing in my life that has happened that hasn’t been extreme- personal health, family, economic situations…absurdity is the key word…It has to do with contradictions and oppositions. In the forms I use in my work the contradictions are certainly there. I was always aware that I should take order versus chaos, stringy versus mass, huge versus small, and I would try to find the most absurd opposites or extreme opposities.” – Eva Hesse
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Eva Hesse, Repetition Nineteen III, 1968. |
"To roll, to fold, to bend, to shorten, to shave, to tear, to chip, to split, to cut, to splash..." |
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"process art" |
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"post-minimalism" |
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Richard Serra, Verb List, 1967. |
Richard Serra, To Lift, 1967. Vulcanized rubber, 36" x 6' 8" x 60".
Zeus or Poseidon, Bronze, 460 – 450 BCE. |
Richard Serra throwing lead at
Leo Castelli warehouse, 1969. |
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Richard Serra, Gutter Corner Splash/Night Shift, 1969/1995. |
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Lynda Benglis, pouring paint in 1969. |
Lynda Benglis, Corner Piece, 1969. |
Lynda Benglis, For Carl Andre, 1970.
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Richard Serra, Corner Prop,
1969. |
Richard Serra, One Ton Prop (House of Cards), 1969. |
Richard Serra, Balanced, 1970. Hot-rolled steel 246.4 x 157.5 x 2.5 cm 97 x 62 x 1". |
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Draft card burning, 1969 |
Malcolm Browne, Thích Quiang Duc's self-immolation, 1963 |
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Post-Structuralism = a philosophical approach based on the idea that words and photographs are unstable and cannot be trusted, and that everything is a momentary construction with no ultimate meaning or truth. |
Edward Ruscha, The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, 1968. |
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East L.A. Brownout, 1968 |
1968 Earthwork movement launched by group exhibition "Earthworks" at the Dwan Gallery |
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Earthworks
= (a.k.a. Land art) form of art which came to prominence in the late
60s and 70s primarily concerned with the natural environment. Materials
such as rocks, sticks, soil, and plants are commonly used, and the works
frequently exist in the open and are left to change and erode under
natural conditions. |
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Robert Smithson
essay A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects provided
a critical framework for the movement |
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Robert Smithson, Nonsite,
1968. |
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970.
Robert Smithson, Documentation of film stills from Spiral Jetty, 1970.
Entropy
= 1) a measure of the amount of energy in a physical
system that cannot be used to do work; a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system. 2) lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. |
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Related
to the Second Law of Thermodynamics = the idea that energy dissipates
toward a disintegrated homogeneity of matter. Entropy negates the concept
of progress on the scale of geological time. |
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A classic example of entropy described in 1862 by Rudolf Clausius as an increase in the disgregation of the molecules of the body of ice. |
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty made pink by algae in the Great Salt Lake, 2011.
Michael Heizer, Double Negative,
1968 - 1970. |
Center for Land Use Interpretation, Michael Heizer, Double Negative present day |
Robert Smithson, Partially Buried Woodshed, 1970.
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Robert Smithson, Partially Buried Woodshed, 1970 to present day. |
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National Guard descneding on protesters at Kent State University May, 1970.
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John Paul Filo, 14-year-old Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller, who was shot by the Ohio National Guard during the Kent State shootings, 1970. |
Kent State student Alan Canfora speaks about the shooting of Jeffrey Milller
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Hal Foster proposes "critical theory has served as a secret continuation of the avant-garde by other means. After the climax of the 1968 revolts, it also occupied the position of cultural politics, at least to the extent that radical rhetoric compensated a little for lost activism." Indeed, it is a popularly held view within cultural studies that the ’68 uprisings were the last genuine flowering of a politically emulsified avant-garde, the last moment – in the West at least – that art and politics met and worked towards a common aim before radical politics and contemporary art skulked off to their respective departments within the academy or under the bright lights of what Foster calls the ‘false pluralism of the posthistorical museum market where anything goes (as long as accepted forms predominate).’ - John Douglas Millar |
Sigmar Polke, Dublin, 1968. |
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Postmodernism
= name for many stylistic reactions to, and developments from, modernism.
Postmodern style is often characterized by eclecticism, digression,
collage, pastiche, and irony. Postmodern theorists see postmodern art
as a reversal of well-established modernist systems, such as the roles
of artist versus audience, seriousness versus play, or high culture
versus kitsch. |
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Sigmar Polke, Bunnies, 1966.
Acrylic on canvas, 59 x 39-½ in. |
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"This image does not represent reality, it represents paint." - David Hopkins |
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Gerhard Richter, Helen, 1964. |
Gerhard Richter, Woman Descending Staircase, 1965. |
Gerhard Richter, High Diver, 1965.
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