CHP 31 - Contemporary Art Worldwide PDF

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1 Global Art and Design History: Renaissance to Modern - ARTH 1111 - 01 CRN: 30578 April 17, 2018

 frica REVIEW OF CHP 37 - A Ancestral screen, Kalabari Ijaw, late 19th century ● Middle figure is the biggest, therefore he is the most important ○ Hierarchy of scale ○ Holding curved knife and staph, indicative of his power ● Made with multiple materials ○ Cubism Nail figure, Kongo, 1875-1900 ● Power figure ● Healer OSEI BONSU, Akua’ba, 1960 ● Help a woman achieve maternity ● Power figure ● Osei Bonsu = sculptor ○ One of the only named sculptors, people didn’t think it was art until the 20th century when artist’s names were starting to get recognized

(NOT IN FINAL) CHP 31 - Contemporary Art Worldwide KEHINDE WILEY, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps , 2005 ● Known for the pattern in background ● Focus on the idea that these are compositions ● Abstract background BARBARA KRUGER, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of my Face), 1981 ● Male gaze depicting woman ● Questions of domestic violence GUERRILLA GIRLS, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist , 1988 ● Women are seen differently in the workplace ● Displays the division between men and women

2 ● Challenges of representation and the financial realities of sexism in art ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, Self-Portrait , 1980 ● Gender ● Sensuality ● Censorship DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, “When I Put My Hands On Your Body”, 1990 ● Aids crisis ● Hold deeply affected the art scene was affected by the aids crisis ● The loss of a whole generation JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH, Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), 1992 ● Native American artist ● Cultural appropriation seen in objects ● Offering trinkets for land ● Canoe on a background of Native American newspaper clippings of history ○ Canoe = symbol of passage for the people during that time period ● Red wash = stereotypical term “red skin” SHIRIN NESHAT, Allegiance and Wakefulness, 1994 ● Iranian Woman ● Farsi poetry written on the artists feet ● Gun represents the the violence that has been apart of Iranian history ● Feminism SANDOW BIRK, Death of Manuel, 1992 ● Death of Marat symbolism ● Man killed in a drive-by shooting WILLIE BESTER, Homage to Steve Biko, 1992 ● South Africa ● Someone who was fighting against the apartheid movement ● Was beat brutally and then killed inside an ambulance ○ Not a symbol of hope or healing, but of death KEITH HARING, Tuttomondo, 1989 ● Started as a street artist, graffiti ● Quick graffiti elements used in a montemental form

3 JEFF KOONS, Pink Panther , 1988 ● Most recognizable contemporary sculptor ● Creepy connection between the pink panther and a pin-up model ● For some people, Koons is everything that is wrong with modern art ANSELM KIEFER, Nigredo, 1984 ● About the Holocaust...