Global Contemp Art Midterm

Two fencers, 1976

Untitled (film still), 1878

One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank, 1985

Trilogy Part II (Woman in black), 1986

Let The Record Show, 1987

Untitled “One Day This Kid”, 1990

My Parents, Their Children, 1986

Two Fencers, 1976

Jack Goldstein

Untitled (film still), 1978

Cindy Sherman

One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank, 1985

Jeff Koons

Triology Part II (Women in Black), 1986

Claudette Johnson

My Parents, Their Children, 1986

Lubaina Himid

Let the Record Show, 1987

ACT UP

Untitled, “One Day This Kid”, 1990

David Wojnarovich

Douglas Crimp - Pictures

Emphasis on presentation, and changing your perceptions. Plays with your interpretations like anticipation, temporality, and obscurity. Lots of preexisting arts were being portrayed in new ways (especially as photography was increasing in popularity) Experimentation with different ways of portraying artwork, getting “normal” things to be distorted.

Douglas Crimp - AIDS: Cultural Analysis/ Cultural Activism

AIDS movement drastically changed art, art was almost strictly used to send messages. Art was a call to action, used for activism. “Art Against AIDS” More open to the public, was a lot more collage and text based

David Wojnarovich - One Day This Kid

writer, artist, photographer, performer, filmmaker, and activist. Discusses a conflict in desire and repression, it sends a message about the dangers of homophobia. It shows that harm an a gay boy does not come from him being gay, but from others hating and condemning him for it. Adds emotional logic to an argument.

The Whole Earth Show - Interview

Exploration of different countries contemporary art, looked at how religion was represented differently in art and how to acknowledge that without separating western art from other art. The discussed exhibition wanted to focus on visually astonishing works that were very different from traditional western art, they did not want to show art that had been seen before. They wanted to redefine quality and what was thought of as good art and show that it was relative to the culture.

Rasheed Araeen Success and Failure of the Black Arts Movement

Over time the movement became “anything that was nonwhite” the focus had to be on less eurocentrism, less, binary, and less racism so there was not room for freedom of expression. Expressed new anger and frustration, uniting “black art” under the idea that it expressed antiracism allowed other minorities like Asian and Caribbean to fall under this category as well. There is controversy about whether this is a good thing Lubina Humid had large role in organizing groups for issues about black women could be brought up without men