History of Modern Art: Minimalism, Conceptualism, and New Media

Flashcards covering the rebirth of Modernism, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Arte Povera, and New Media as discussed in Prof. Anna Vyazemtseva's lecture notes.

Andy Warhol

Artist who was played by David Bowie in Julian Schnabel's $1996$ film Basquiat.

Sixteen Americans

$1959$ exhibition at MoMA that featured artist Frank Stella and marked a significant point in modern art history.

The Store

An environment opened by Claes Oldenburg in New York's East Village in $1961$ that mimicked cheap shops and sold various items.

Fluxus

An international movement formed in $1962$ after a series of events organized by George Maciunas in Wiesbaden, West Germany.

Viennese Actionism

Movement formed in $1962$ in Vienna by artists including Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, and Hermann Nitsch.

Great Night Down the Drain

A work by Georg Baselitz exhibited in Berlin in $1963$.

Joseph Beuys

Performance artist known for the $1964$ work "The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Over-Rated" and his use of felt and fat as insulation materials.

Thirteen Most Wanted Men

A work by Andy Warhol installed on the façade of the State Pavillion at the World’s Fair in New York in $1964$.

Étant donnés

A secret environment by Marcel Duchamp ($1946$-$1966$) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, featuring a female form made of parchment and an old wooden door.

Arte Povera

Literally meaning "poor art," a term introduced by Germano Celant in $1967$ to describe art made using throwaway materials like soil, rags, and twigs.

Death of the Author

A significant text written by Roland Barthes in $1967$.

Seth Siegelaub

Curator who organized the first exhibition of Conceptual Art in $1968$ and produced the Xerox Book.

Michael Asher

Artist known for the $1970$ Pomona College Project, which reconfigured gallery interiors to introduce street noise and light as experiential elements.

The Kitchen

A center for Video, Music, and Dance established in New York in $1973$ where video art claimed institutional space.

Trans-fixed

A $1974$ performance by Chris Burden that marked an extreme limit of physical presence in art.

The Postmodern Condition

A $1979$ publication by Jean-François Lyotard in France characterizing the postmodern era.

Frank Stella

Minimalist painter famous for the statement "What you see is what you see" and his $1959$ work The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II.

Donald Judd

Minimalist who created "Stacks" of metal boxes using industrial materials like galvanized iron and green lacquer to avoid symbolic meaning.

Le manifeste jaune

A leaflet for the $1955$ "Le mouvement" exhibition that postulated "Colour – Light – Motion – Time" as basic principles for kinetic sculpture.

Jean Tinguely

Creator of the self-destructing sculpture "Homage to New York" ($1960$) and "méta-mécanique" works.

Francisco Arana Infante

Moscow-based artist who established the "Argo" group in $1970$ and combined artificial objects with natural landscapes.

The aesthetic of the ugly

An Actionist priority described by Adolf Frohner that valued true representation over beauty.

Blood Organ

The first group performance of Viennese Actionists ($1962$) involving the disembowelment of a dead lamb to subvert religious symbols.

Conceptual Art

Also called "idea art," a movement ($1960$s-$1970$s) where thought processes and methods of production are valued over the finished object.

Sol LeWitt

Artist who created wall drawings executed by assistants from a set of simple rules and instructions regarding line direction and color.

Joseph Kosuth

Conceptual artist known for "Clock (One and Five)" ($1965$/$1997$) and neon light installations.

Anselm Kiefer

Neo-Expressionist artist whose large-scale works like "The Renowned Orders of the Night" ($1997$) explore ancient knowledge and history.

The Alchemists

A $2026$ exhibition by Anselm Kiefer at the Palazzo Reale in Milan focusing on female scientists and materials erased from history.

Caterina Sforza

A scientist and military leader featured in Anselm Kiefer's alchemical project for her manuscript of over $400$ recipes and formulas.