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27 Cards in this Set
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Narrative |
visualize a story by representing a key moment or moments in an event as it is unfolding |
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Kinetic |
sculpture showing time through the motion of its parts |
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Multi-Episodic |
represents two or more scenes of the same story |
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History Painting |
narrative through a single dramatic scene |
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Appropriation |
recycling materials to impart time |
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Index |
representation of time through used and worn materials |
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Performance Art |
live art activities that encompass elements of theatere and visual art |
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Process Art |
Using mutable materials and imparting outside forces like gravity, warming, or cooling. Decay or change |
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Memento Mori |
Reminder of death |
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Counter Memory |
Recovery of lost history, usually of ethnicity or culture |
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Memorial |
Pay tribute to the dead |
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Monument |
pay tribute to the past |
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utopia |
static idealized place |
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feng shui |
ideal placement of objects |
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space |
social and psychological attributes of a place |
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site specific |
taking meaning and form from the particular location of installation |
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Sublime |
presence of the vast, awe or terror, overwhelming of the mind and senses, much as religious fervor can overwhelm believers |
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transcendentalism |
based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process that governs the nature of experience. |
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reliquary |
container for sacred items |
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triptych |
a picture made of three parts |
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liminal |
a state of transition |
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faith |
belief in religion |
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vanitas |
symbolic of meaninglessness |
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land art |
art where the piece and the land are inextriciply linked |
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minimalism |
using pared down or simple design elements |
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semiotics |
the meaning and making of signs and symbols |
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relational aesthetics |
using art as a practical point of departure for the whole of human relations and their social context |
