Fah86/amer194-03 Final Study Guide

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Amalia Mesa-Bains, "Venus Envy I: First Holy Communion Before the End"

1993, installation, Whitney Museum of American Art

[Part III - Essay Question]

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Delilah Montoya, "La Guadalupe"

1998, grid of nine chromogenic prints; on view at Tufts University Tisch Gallery, on view through Sunday, Dec. 7, 5pm, Aidekman Arts Center

[Part III - Essay Question]

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Pedro Pietri (b. Ponce 1944 – d. 2004; to NY 1947)

Nuyorican poet and playwright; active
in Young Lords Party; f. Nuyorican Poets Café, Loisaida Puerto Rican Obituary (1969)

[Part III - Essay Question]

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Pepón Osorio, "Badge of Honor"

1995, storefront, Newark, NJ; reinstalled Newark Museum

http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-pepon-osorio-in-place

[Part III - Essay Question]

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María Magdalena Campos Pons, "The Flag. Color Code Venice 14"

2013, polaroid grid, on view through Sunday December 7, Tufts University Gallery Aidekman Arts Center; this is a self-portrait derived from Venice Biennale performance and installation, 2013

(video link to a clip of her performance in San Marcos Square, Venice: http://vimeo.com/67463676)

[Part III - Essay Question]

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Rafael Tufiño, "Goyita"

1953, oil/canvas

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Myrna Baéz, "Platanal"

1974, acrylic/canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Rincón Criollo (la casa de Chema)

f. 1978 by José Manuel “Chema” Soto and others, Brook Avenue and E. 158th St., South Bronx, NY; video links from Rincon Criollo’s website

http://www.centroculturalrinconcriollo.org/Photos_and_Videos.php

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Hank Prussing and Manuel “Manny” Vega, "The Spirit of East Harlem"

1973-78; restored 1998; 2010

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Yasmin Hernandez, "Soldaderas: Frida Kahlo and Julia de Burgos"

2011, Modesto Community Gardens, Lexington Avenue at 104 & 105th Sts, East Harlem

http://www.yasminhernandez.com/bio10.htm

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"Dos Alas: Pedro Albizu Campos and Che Guevara"

c. 1999, East Harlem, 105th at Third Avenue, muralists: Ricanstruction Netwerk, restored 2011 by LLAMA (Luisa’s (Capetillo) Liberation Artists Making Action)

http://vimeo.com/31261950

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Olga Albizu (b. Ponce, P.R. 1924; to NY, d. 2005), "Radiante"

1967, oil/panel, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Raphael Montañez-Ortiz (b. Brooklyn, 1934), "Henny Penny Piano Destruction"

1967, New York

http://hemisphericinstitute.org/journal/8.1/dossier/index.html

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Raphael Montañez-Ortiz with "Archaeological Find #22"

1961, destroyed sofa

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Rafael Ferrer (b. Santurce, P.R., 1933), "50 Cakes of Ice"

1970, installation for Information, exhibition of Conceptual Art at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Rafael Ferrer, "La Puerta Abierta (The Open Door)"

1987, oil on canvas

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Jorge Soto (1947-1987), "Marriage of Atabeya and Changó"

c. 1975, pen and ink

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Jorge Soto, poster for "Taller Boricua"

1974, silkscreen (screen print)

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Jorge Soto, "El Velorio de Oller en Nueva York (Oller's Velorio in New York)"

1973, hand-colored screen print, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Marcos Dimas (b. PR, to NY 1950), "Pariah"

1972, oil on canvas, 65 x 54”, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Nitza Tufiño (b. Mexico City, 1949, raised Puerto Rico and NY; daughter of Rafael Tufiño)

"Pareja Taína (Taíno Couple)"

1972, paint on gessoed masonite

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Fernando Salicrup (b. 1946, NY), "Una vez más Columbus (Columbus Once Again)"

1978, acrylic on linen

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Juan Sánchez (b. NY, 1954), "Lucha Continua (The Fight is Ongoing)"

From the portfolio "Guariquén (Look, Come, See) Images and Words Rican/Structed"

1986, Lithograph with collage

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Pepón Osorio, "En la Barbería no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)"

1994, public installation produced for Real Art Ways on Park Street, Hartford, CT; collection of Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-pepon-osorio-in-place

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Papo Colo, "Superman 51"

1977, performance theater recorded on video

http://vimeo.com/7839047

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Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), "Isla"

1980, Iowa, photographic documentation of site specific work

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Ana Mendieta, "Rupestrian Carvings"

1981, Jaruco Park, Cuba, carved rock face; details
"Guanaroca" (First Mother) and "Itaba Cahubaba" (Old Mother Blood)

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María Magdalena Campos Pons, "Sugar/Bittersweet"

2010, installation, antique wooden stools, spears, cast glass and cast sugar, as installed at Tufts University, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82fb_uummHU

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996), "Untitled (Lover Boys)"

1991, blue and white candies individually wrapped, endlessly replenished, overall dimensions vary, ideal weight: 355 lbs

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Felix González-Torres, "Untitled (Portrait of Ross)"

1991, candy, colored celophane, 175 lbs, endlessly replenished, Art Institute of Chicago

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña (Mexico/US) and Coco Fusco (Cuba/US)

“The Couple in the Cage: A Guatinaui Odyssey”

Performance and video, 1992, staged to “commemorate” the Quincentary of Columbus’ “discovery” of the “New World”; documentary directed by Paula Heredia, 1992

http://vimeo.com/79363320