ArtxHistory: a framework for open, equitable art histories.
Context: Social, Political, Cultural, Economic
"Hip-hop’s ascension had been steady, but in 1988 the genre exploded into a diverse array of styles and sounds that forever restructured how the artform was perceived and how the music was marketed."
Daily Beast, 2018
"There was a time when synthesizers replaced guitars as the most important component of a band. The result was Synth-Pop, a style of popular rock that ruled the airwaves for about ten years beginning in 1977. Synth-pop had its origins and most sustained popularity in the UK."
Tom Holmes, 2020
Seminal
Events
Art Term: Queer Art
Douglas Eklund, Art and Photography: The 1980s, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004
Art Term: Neo Expressionism
''It's a humanistic gesture, more than anything else,'' said the artist, who called his work ''a political and subversive act - an attempt to psychologically destroy the wall by painting it.'' (On Keith Haring's painting of the Berlin Wall, 1988) New York Times
Art Terms:
Institutional Critique
Appropriation
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ART TERM: Generative Art is a type of art that uses algorithms, mathematical equations, and machine learning to create unique, dynamic, and often interactive pieces. The art is "generated" based on a set of rules, parameters, or inputs, rather than being manually created by an artist.
Meta AI 1.31.2025
ART TERM: uncanny valley is the feeling of unease or revulsion that people experience when something almost looks human but isn't quite. As robots appear more humanlike, they become more appealing, but only up to a certain point. Upon reaching the uncanny valley, our affinity descends into a feeling of strangeness, a sense of unease, and a tendency to be scared. The term was coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in the 1970s.
Meta AI 4.12.2025