art 120: issues and influences                              winter 2012

syllabus     schedule+homework     preparation     vocabulary list
final assignment           readings           speakers           galleries

 

 

VOCABULARY LIST

Week 9
Cabinets of curiosities (Wunderkammer)
encyclopedic museum
salon style exhibition

Week 8
Janet Cardiff: Walks
Richard Serra: Tilted Arc
Barbara Kruger
Jenny Holzer
Krzysztof Wodiczko

Week 7
Identity as a construct (constructed identity)
Cindy Sherman
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Roberta Breitmore
Essentialism
Activist Art / Guerrilla Girls
Kerry James Marshall
Kara Walker
Figurative art
Body Art (as an art movement)
Gaze
Zhang Huan
Mona Hatoum
Janine Antoni
Marina Abramovic
Stelarc

Week 6
Iconography
Vanitas
The Sublime
Ritualistic (artwork and practice)
Bill Viola
Félix González-Torres
Wolfgang Laib
Kiki Smith
Shahzia Sikander

Week 5
Subjective time (time experienced) / Objective time (time measured)
Embodied time
Represented time
Kinetic art
Process art
Performance art
David Weiss and Peter Fischli: The Way Things Go
William Kentridge
Andy Goldsworthy
Matthew Barney: Drawing restraint

Week 4
Appropriation
Marcel Duchamp
Readymade
Tom Friedman
Erwin Wurm: One minute sculptures
Oliver Herring: Task

Sculpture
Diorama (e.g.Mark Dion)
Tableau (e.g.Ed Kienholz)
Installation
Site specificity / Site specific
Earthworks / Land Art
Mel Chin: Revival Field
Maya Lin (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
Brian Tolle
Do Ho Suh
Richard Long
Mel Chin: Revival Field

Week 3
Content
Concept
Context

Week 2
Contemporary Art
Modern art (modernism)
Behavioral theory of art
Instrumental theory of art
Institutional definition of art (George Dickie)
Aesthetics
Description
Interpretation
Medium/media
Form / Formal elements / Elements of composition
Context
Content
Concept
Subject
Subject matter