World Currents Of Contemporary Art

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Gutai

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Expressed freedom. Bodily interaction with the medium to create art. Very conceptual in some ways. Originally formed in Japan. Example: Shiraga Kazuo, Challenging Mud, 1955, performance.

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Situationism

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Social justice and ideals of rebellion against capitalist society. Marxist. Focus on the "the Spectale" and the fetishzation of commodities. Focuses a lot on the everyday "situation" as art. Example Guy Debord

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Detourement

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"Detour"/ "Hijack" Developed in 1950's by Letterist interational, later used by Situationist international. The most Banksy thing you can think of. Subversion of Propaganda. For example, changing a Malboro ad to say "It's a bore". This often includes defacing billboards, products, and such.

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Derive

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Guy Debord at it again with that marxism. Experimental behavior where one takes a walk through a landscape. This walk is not determined by the fastest route or destination, rather to where someone is most driven to go naturally and what they are attracted to in their surroundings.

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Happening

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nonlinear, audience praticipation, performance. Event as art. Think of that lady who stared at audience members until they cry.

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Independent Group

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Insitute of contemporary arts in london england 1952-1955. Artists who wanted to change the modernist approach to art. Precusor to pop art.

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Combine

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artwork that incorporates various objects into a painted canvas surface, creating a sort of hybrid between painting and sculpture. What it says on the tin.

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Consumerist Society

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Honestly you should know what this is. A society that focuses on the conception of the consumer, usually also a capitalist society. Guy Debord hates this.

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Pop Art

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Based on popular culture and media. Oftentimes tongue in cheek.

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Silkscreening

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Andy Warhol. Ink is pushed though a mesh that has a negative image on it, this creates the image onto a surface. Several layers can be applied.

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Death and Disaster Series

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Andy Warhol. A beautiful death on 33rd street. A series by andy warhol that examines death, fading memory, and tragedy using silkscreening.

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Minimalism

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What it says on the tin. Die Fahn Hoch! by Frank Stella. Distilling a form and artwork into the essential elements. Cutting out all the fluff and fat.

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Gestalt

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The whole is more than the individual parts.

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Conceptual Art

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The meaning of an art work is more important than the finished product, if one even exists. The Physical impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. One in Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth. My Bed by Tracey Emin.

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Art and Language

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Collaborative group of conceptual artists. Jospeh Kosuth was a member.

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Tautology

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Repetition of an idea. Saying the same thing but differently each time. The same thing twice is technically not the same thing. Think of the Death and disaster series, a Beautiful death. It repeats over and over, but it eventually fades out. Same thing, but not the same.

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Art Workers' Coalition

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AWC. Formed in new york in 1969 to pressure the local museums to reform. They wanted the museums to include more art from women artists and art from POC. Also pressured free admission.

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Ad Hoc Women Artists' Committee

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Made to combat the lack of women artists in museums. Began an art registry to collect information on female artists and their art.

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Womanhouse Exhibition

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They made a house! The art installation was based around the idea of a house. CalArts Feminist art program. 1972

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Size vs Scale

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