1970s
Context: Social, Political, Cultural, Economic
Land Art, Environmental Art
Art Terms
Environmental Art
Land Art
more on Nancy Holt
Williams, Alena J., and Pamela M. Lee, Nancy Holt: Sightlines, University of California Press, 2015
Dr. Kuykendell, The Lightening Field, in Smarthistory, 2016
(Stephanie Weber, Charles Simonds's Absence, 2013 Bomb Magazine)
"Negation, as manifested in anti-monuments such as Oldenburg’s Placid Civic Monument or in Smithson’s conception of “ruins in reverse,” was just one approach to the dematerialization that contributed to the object’s relinquishment of a hard and fast materiality." Ann Reynolds, Dwelling as a World, the Art of Charles Simonds, 2011
Performance Art
Art Term: Performance Art
b. France 1930
d. California 2002
more on Niki de Saint Phalle
Annika Ohrner, Niki Sainte Phalle Playing with the Feminine in the Male Factory, nd
Mexican-American Liberation Art Front
Second Wave Feminist Art
Art Terms
Feminist Art
Body Art
Context: Joanna Walker, The Body is Present Even if in Disguise, 2009
Seminal Publication: Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, 1971 ARTNews
"On the eve of the November 1974 issue’s release, Artforum’s publisher, Charles Cowles, was conflicted. He didn’t want his mother to see the ad, but he didn’t want the art world to accuse him of censorship. The printer, a “retired brigadier general,” as Coplans told Amy Newman in her book Challenging Art, an oral history of Artforum, had initially refused to print the ad. Coplans appealed to him by saying “it’s a fundamental American issue of the way democracy is run in this country.” The ad was published and the response was immediate." M.H. Miller, ARTnews, 2016
more on Abromovic
Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present, 2010
Abramovic on The Artist is Present, 2010
“If not naturally fearless,” Mendieta “used fear well, transmuting a profound sense of psychological and cultural displacement into an experience of merging with the natural world and its history through art.” Holland Cotter, New York Times 2004
b. New York 1940
d. Houston 1993
A familiar item in many women's wardrobes, stockings recall both the physical presence of the female body and its wider cultural implications. The artist alters such inexpensive everyday materials, which in the case of pantyhose carry simultaneous notions of constriction and beauty, to question accepted understandings of the body. Connie H. Choi, Hammer Museum
Seminal Event
“We don’t go around saying ‘white art'...but I think it’s very important for us to keep saying ‘black art’ until it becomes recognized as American art.” David Driskell, The New York Times, 1977.
What is Postmodernism?
Art Term:
Postmodernism
Pluralism
"In 1979, Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran. America went blazing in with helicopters to get the hostages out. But it backfired majorly. A helicopter and a plane crashed in the desert. We were left with dead bodies, a pile of burning debris and the hostages nowhere to be seen. So I thought I’d write a song about all that and the failure of technology." Laurie Anderson, The Guardian, 2016
Directions: Deconstruction | Expressionism
more on Anselm Kiefer
Kiefer's studio at Barjac, near Nimes, France
Scholarship on Kiefer's seminal work: Heroic Symbols, 1969
d. New Mexico 2020
The "Pictures" Generation
Art Term
The "Pictures" Generation
b. Vancouver, Canada 1946
American b. 1947
