Pop Art:

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• Pop Art
• Movement Based on the imagery of Consumerism and
  popular culture.
• Flourished from the 1950s 1970s.
• Comic books, advertisements, packaging, and
  images from television and cinema were all part
  of the iconography of Pop Art.

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Roy Lichtenstein. Oh Jeff I Love You, Too But
1964. Oil and magna on canvas. 122 x 122 cm.
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• Benday Dots
• The type setting, the individual dots that
  together with many others, make up lettering and
  images.

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Andy Warhol. Elvis I and II. 1964. Synthetic
polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas,
aluminum paint and silkscreen on canvas. Each
panel 2.10 x 2.10.
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Claes Oldenburg. Clothespin. Central Square
Phillidelphia. 1976. 13.7 x 1.92 x1.32m.
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• Minimalism
• Characterized by and extreme simplicity of form
  and a deliberate lack of expressive content.
• Developed in the US as a reaction against the
  emotiveness of abstract expressionism.
• Based on the presence of composition and the use
  of plain often industrial materials arranged in
  geometrical or highly simplified forms.

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Frank Stella. Avicenna. 1960. Aluminum paint on
canvas. 1.91 x 1.85m.
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Eva Hesse. Metronomic Irregularity I. 1966.
Painted wood, sculpmetal, and cotton- covered
wire. 30.5 x 45.7 x 2.5cm
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Conceptual Art

• Various forms of art in which the idea for a work
  is considered more important than the finished
  product, if there is one.
• Goes back to Duchamp.
• In the 1960s it became an international
  phenomenon.
• Conceptual art often overlaps with other forms of
  art
• Ie. Body Art, Land Art, Minimal Art, Performance
  Art

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• Common Characteristic of Conceptual Art
• The true work of art is not the physical object
  produced by consists of concepts or ideas.

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Bruce Nauman. Self-Portrait as Fountain. 1966-67.
Colour photograph. 50.1 x 60.3cm.
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Bruce Nauman

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vQml505hxp_c
• Walking in an exaggerated manner around the
  perimeter of a square. 1968.

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Chris Burden

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v26R9KFdt5aYfeature
  related
• Shoot, 1971.

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• Modernism to Postmodernism
• Modernism Pre-occupation with the idea of
  progress.
• - Things should be moving towards a specific
  goal.
• Crisis of modernism
• - its aspirations to universalism and the
  tendency to dictate from a privileged position
  are revealed as concealing a closure against the
  many alternative voices that had been excluded
  from modernist developments.

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• Postmodernism
• Philosophical concern or aesthetic reflection
  upon the nature of modernity.
• A conscious departure from modernism.
• A rejection of modernist ideology and theory in
  favour of plurality of values and techniques.

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• Typical features of late 20th c postmodernism
• References to or the use of earlier styles and
  conventions
• A deliberate mixing of different styles and media
  (often with self-referential or parodic intent)
• The incorporation of images relating to
  consumerism, mass-communication, etc

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Moshe Safdie. Habitat 67. Montreal. 1967.
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Frank O. Ghery. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Spain.
1993-97,
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• Deconstructivist Design
• International avant-garde tendency to disturb the
  traditional architectural values of harmony,
  unity and stability.
• Disturbance done through the use of skewed,
  distorted and impure geometry.
• Comes also from the idea of intertextuality
• Derived from the Latin intertexto, meaning to
  intermingle while weaving.
• First coined by Julia Kristeva in the 1960s.

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• Earthwork
• - A type of art that uses raw materials from the
  earth.
• ie. Rock and soil.
• - Emerged as a movement in the late 1960s
• - Part of the disenchantment with the
  sophisticated technology of urban culture.
• 2. Site-specific work
• - Refers to a work of art designed specifically
  for a particular location and that has an
  interrelationship with the location.
• -If removed from the location it would lose all
  or a substantial part of its meaning.
• -Site-specific is often used to describe
  installation works, as in site-specific
  installation, and Land art is site-specific
  almost by definition.

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Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. 1969-70. Black
Rock, Salt crystal, and earth. length 457m.
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• http//www.robertsmithson.com/films/films.htm

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Wrapped Coast, One
Million Square Feet Little Bay. Australia,
1968-69.
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Christo. Wrapped Reichstag, Project for Berlin.
Drawing 1987 in two parts 38 X 244 cm. and
106,6 X 244 cm. Pencil, pastel, charcoal, wax
crayon and map. ref 34.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Wrapped Reichstag,
Berlin. 1971-95.
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