Bennet Test 2

Eva Hesse, Metronomic Irregularity II, 1966

Eva Hesse, Hang Up, 1966

Pino Pascali, 32 Square meters of sea, approximately, 1967

Pino Pascali, Bridge, 1968

      Alighiero Boetti, One Meter Cube, 1967

Marisa Merz, Untitled (Living Sculpture), 1966

Marisa Merz,

Little Shoe, 1968

Marisa Merz, Untitled, 2012

Michael Asher Project for Montgomery Art Center at Pomona College, 1970

Michael Asher, Untitled, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2008

Marcel Broodthaers, Musee d'Art Moderne, Dt des Agiles, fig. 0, 1969

Hans Haacke, Chickens Hatching, 1969

Hans Haacke, Shapolsky et al., A Real Time Social System, 1971

Hans Haacke, Rhine Water Purification Plant, 1972

Andy Warhol, Diamond Dust Shoes, ca. 1980

Jeff Koons, Triple Hulk Elvis, ca. 2007

Allan Sekula, Dismal Science Part. 1. Middle Passage, from Fish Story, 1993

Allan Sekula, Fish Story, 1991

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #6, 1978

Cindy Sherman, Sweet Girl, 2011

When did minimalism peak and what (3) art movements came after it?

1966

Arte Povera (Italy)
Institutional Critique 
Post Modernism

Eva Hesse (life story from video we watched)

Jewish American female artist, got started professionally at 17yo

marries sculptor Tom Doyle, they go to Germany, moves from pop-art to a strange surrealism

moves back to America during minimalism movement,

divorce, dives into art even deeper

medical issues, paper paintings,

Eccentric Abstraction (who made the term + when + define)

term from art critic and curator Lucy Lippard in 1966, referring to art style/movement right after minimalism

Arte Povera (when + where + who made term + translation)

1966-69   Italy
term from art critic Germano Celant in 1967
Poor/ Impoverished Art

Arte Povera (artist examples)

Pino Pascali

Alighiero Boetti

Merisa Mertze

Arte Povera (core concepts)

creating works from everyday materials

often sarcastic or satirical in its distrust of industry, urbanization, and the modern world

Institutional Critique (artist exapmles)

Micheal Asher

Marcel Broodthaers

Hans Haacke   

Institutional Critique (core concepts)

mechanics and institutional parameters that surround the art become the focus

characterized by absence/ disappearance of typical art object

Often site specific

Postmodernism is sort of…    (+synonym)

a series of debates about what it is, about if it exists, about what modern is, etc

synonym = late capitalism

Major Traits of Postmodernism according to Jameson?

Depthlessness
Superficiality
Pastiche
World’s $ markets connecting (aka late capitalism)
Disorientation (from reality)
Waning of affect (less emotion)

Pastiche define)

using images that already exist /

an artistic work in a style that imitates another work, artist, or period.

These are great examples of which art movement?

Postmodernism

Postmodernism (artists/ examples)

Allan Sekula (Fish Story)

Cindy Sherman (Untitled Film Stills)

Diamond Dust Shoes by Warhol

Hulk Elivs by Koons

Why does Edwards say that Sherman and Sekula are “quintessentially ‘postmodern’ artists”?

they're quintessential postmodern artists because their work borrows from the entire pre-existing catalogue of imagery at their disposal, while referring back to the art's multifaceted meaning that relies on the viewer to interpret it, it also mixes high art with low culture elements, and ironically embraces aspects of society that challenge societal norms through art.

Fish Story (what, who, why?)

Sekula

photo series that makes visible the routes of global trade.

documents and valorizes the laborers

political

Sherman (does what? why?)

Untitled Film Stills
photography series where she takes on different identities 

shows how the postmodern sense of self is constructed from images outside of ourselves

Later is sponsored by MAC makeup and does a semi-ironic series