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Matthew Barney, Cremaster cycle, installation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2003 |
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Alberto Giacometti, Man Pointing (no. 5 of 6), 1947. Bronze, 5' 10'' x 3' 1'' x 1' 5 5/8''. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines |
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Francis Bacon, Painting, 1946. Oil and pastel on linen, 6' 5 7/8'' x 4' 4''. Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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Jean Dubuffet, Vie Inquiete (Uneasy Life), 1953. Oil on canvas, 4' 3'' x 6' 4''. Tate Gallery, London |
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Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), 1950. Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas, 7' 3'' x 9' 10''. National gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
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Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1950-1952. Oil on canvas, 6' 3 7/8'' x 4' 10''. Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-1951. Oil on canvas, 7' 11 3/8'' x 17' 9 1/4''. Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960. Oil on canvas, 9' 6'' x 8' 9''. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco |
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David Smith, Cubi XVIII
1963-1964
Polished stainless steel, 9' 7 3/4" high
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts |
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Ellsworth Kelly, Red Blue Green
1963
Oil on canvas, 6' 11 5/8" x 11' 3 7/8"
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego |
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Frank Stella, Mas o Menos
1964
Metallic powder in acrylic emulsion on canvas, 9' 10" x 13' 8 1/2"
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
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Helen Frankenthaler, Bay Side
1967
Acrylic on canvas, 6' 2" x 6' 9"
Private collection, New York |
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Morris Louis, Saraband
1959
Acrylic resin on canvas, 8' 5 1/8" x 12' 5"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
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Tony Smith, Die
1962
Steel, 6' x 6' x 6'
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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Donald Judd, Untitled
1969
Brass and colored fluorescent Plexiglas on steel brackets, 10 units, 6 1/8" x 2' x 2' 3" each, with 6" intervals
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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Maya Ying Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Washington, D.C.
1981-1983
Black granite, each wing 246' long
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Louise Nevelson, Tropical Garden II
1957-1959
Wood painted black, 5' 11 1/2" x 10' 11 3/4" x 1'
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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Louise Bourgeois, Cumul I
1969
Marble, 1' 10 3/8" x 4' 2" x 4'
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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Eva Hesse, Hang-Up
1965-1966
Acrylic on cloth over wood and steel, 6' x 7' x 6' 6"
The Art Institute of Chicago
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Kazuo Shiraga, Making a Work with His Own Body
1955
Mud
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Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
1965
Photograph of performance art
Schmela Gallery, Dusseldorf
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Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy
1964
Performance: raw fish, chickens, sausages, wet paint, plastic, rope, paper scrap
Judson Church, New York City
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Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York
1960, just prior to its self-destruction in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs
1965
Wooden folding chair, photographic copy of a chair, and photographic enlargement of a dictionary definition of a chair; chair, 2' 8 3/8" x 1' 2 7/8" x 1' 8 7/8"; photo panel, 3' x 2' 1/8"; text panel, 2' x 2' 1/8"
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign)
1967
Neon with glass tubing suspension frame, 4' 11" x 4' 7" x 2"
Private collection
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Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
1956
Collage, 10 1/4" x 9 3/4"
Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen
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Jasper Johns, Flag
1954-1955, dated on reverso 1954
Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, 3' 6 1/4" x 5' 5/8"
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon
1959
Oil, pencil, paper, fabric, metal, cardboard box, printed paper, printed reproductions, photograph, wood, paint tube, and mirror on canvas, with oil on bald eagle, string, and pillow, 6' 9 3/4" x 10" x 2;'
Sonnabend Collection |
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Roy Lichtenstein, Hopeless
1963
Oil on canvas, 3' 8" x 3' 8"
Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Basel
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Andy Warhol, Green Coca-Cola Bottles
1962
Oil on canvas, 6' 10 1/2" x 4' 9"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych
1962
Oil, acrylic, and silk-screen enamel on canvas, each panel 6' 8" x 4' 9"
Tate Gallery, London
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Claes Oldenburg, photo of one-person show at the Green Gallery, New York
1962 |
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Audrey Flack, Marilyn
1977
Oil over acrylic on canvas, 8' x 8'
Collection of the University of Arizona Museum, Tucson |
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Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait
1967-1968
Acrylic on canvas, 8' 11" x 6' 11" x 2"
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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Duane Hanson, Supermarket Shopper
1970
Polyester resin and fibrglass polychromed in oil, with clothing, steel cart, and groceries, life-size
Nachfolgeinstitut
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
1970
Black rock, salt crystals, earth, red water (algae) at Great Salt Lake, Utah
1,500' x 15' x 3' 6"
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands 1980-83
Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida
1980-1983
Pink woven polyptopylene fabric, 6 1/2 million sq. ft.
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Richard Serra, Tilted Arc
1981
Cor-Ten steel, 12' x 120' x 2 1/2"
Installed Federal Plaza, New York City |
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (exterior view from the north), New York
1943-1959 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Interior of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1943-1959
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Le Corbusier, Notre-Dame-du-Haut
Ronchamp, France
1950-1955 |
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Le Corbusier, Interior of Notre-Dame-du-Haut
Ronchamp, France
1950-1955 |
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Joern Utzon, Sydney Opera House
Sydney, Australia
1959-1972
Reinforced concrete; height of highest shell, 200'
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Eero Saarinen, Trans World Airlines terminal
Kennedy Airport, New York
1956-1962
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, Seagram Building
New York
1956-1958 |
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Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Sears Tower
Chicago
1974 |
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Charles Moore, Piazza d'Italia
New Orleans, Louisiana
1976-1980
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Philip Johnson and John Burgee with Simmons Architects, associated architects, a model of the AT&T Building
New York
1978-1984
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Michael Graves, the Portland Building
Portland, Oregon
1980 |
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Robert Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott Brown, house in Delaware (west elevation)
1978-1983 |
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Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture (the "Beaubourg")
Paris, France
1977 |
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Gunter Behnisch, Hysolar Institute Building
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
1987 |
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Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museo Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain
1997
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Julian Schnabel, The Walk Home
1984-1985
Oil, plates, copper, bronze, fiberglass, and Bondo on wood, 9' 3" x 19' 4"
Broad Art Foundation and the Pace Gallery, New York
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Susan Rothenberg, Tattoo
1979
Acrylicm flashe on canvas, 5' 7" x 8' 7"
Walker Art Centerm Minneapolis |
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Anselm Kiefer, Nigredo
1984
Oil paint on photosensitized fabric, acrylic emulsion, straw, shellac, and relief paint on paper pulled from painted wood, 11' x 18'
Philapelphia Museum of Art |
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Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary
1996
Paper collage, oil paint, glitter, polyester, resin, map pins, elephant dung on linen, 7' 11" x 5' 11 5/16"
The Saatchi Collection, London |
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
1979
Multimedia, including ceramics and stitchery, 48' along each side of triangular installation |
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Miriam Schapiro, Anatomy of a Kimono (section)
1976
Fabric and acrylic on canvas, 6' 8" x 8' 6"
Collection of Bruno Bishofberger, Zurich |
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35
1979
Gelatin silverprint, 10" x 8" |
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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face)
1981
Photograph and red painted frame, 4' 7" x 3' 5"
Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York
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Ana Mendieta, Flowers on Body
1973
Color photograph of earth-body work with flowersm executed at El Yaagul, Oaxaca, Mexico
Courtesy of the Estated of Ana Mediesta and Galerie Lelong, New York
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Hannah Wilke, S.O.S. - Starification Object Series
1974-1982
Ten black-and-white photographs with 15 chewing-gum sculptures in Plexiglas cases mounted on ragboard, from a series originally made for S.O.S. Mastication Box and used in an exhibition-performance at the Clocktower, January 1, 1975
3' 5" x 5' 8"
Courtesy Ron Feldman Fine Arts, New York |
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Kiki Smith, Untitled
1990
Beeswax and microcrystalline wax figures on metal stands, female figure installed height 6' 1 1/2" and male figure installed height 6' 4 15/16"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Faith Ringgold, Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima?
1983
Acrylic on canvas with fabric borders, quilted, 7' 6" x 6' 8"
Private collection
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Adrian Piper, Cornered
1988
Mixed-media installation of variable size; video monitor, table, and birth certificates
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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Lorna Simpson, Stereo Styles
1988
10 black-and-white Polaroid prints and 10 engraved plastic plaques, 5' 4" x 9' 8" overall
Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery |
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Melvin Edwards, Tambo
1993
Welded steel, 2' 4 1/8" x 2' 1 1/4"
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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David Hammons, Public Enemy
installation at Museum of Modern Art, New York
1991
Photographs, balloons, sandbags, guns and other mixed media |
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)
1992
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 5' x 14' 2"
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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Leon Golub, Mercenaries (IV)
1980
Acrylic on linen, 10' x 19' 2"
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts |
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Magdalena Abakanowicz, artist with Backs, at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Paris, France
1982 |
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David Wojnarowicz, "When I put my hands on your body"
1990
Gelatin-silver print and silk-screened text on museum board
2' 2" x 3' 2"
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Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Homeless Projection
1986-1987
Outdoor slide projection at the Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Memorial, Boston
organized by First Night, Boston |
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Nam June Paik, Video still from Global Groove
1973
3/4" videotape, color, sound, 30 minutes
Collection of the artist |
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David Em, Nora
1979
Computer-generated color photograph, 1' 5" x 1' 11"
Private collection
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Jenny Holzer, Untitled (selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text)
1989
Extended helical tricolor LED electronic display signboard, 16" x 162' x 6"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York |
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Bill Viola, The Crossing
1996
Video/sound installation with two channels of color video projection onto screens 16' high
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Tony Oursler, Mansheshe
1997
Ceramic, glass, video player, videocassette, CPJ-200 video projector, sound 11" x 7" x 8" each
Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York |
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Jeff Koons, Pink Panther
1988
Porcelain, 3' 5" x 1' 8 1/2" x 1' 7"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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Mark Tansey, A Short History of Modernist Painting
1982
Oil on canvas, three panels, each 4' 10" x 3' 4"
Courtesy Curt Marcus Gallery
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Robert Arneson, California Artist
1982
Glazed stoneware, 5' 8 1/4" x 2' 3 1/2" x 1' 8 1/4"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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Hans Haacke, MetroMobiltan
1985
Fiberglass construction, three banners, and photomural, 11' 8" x 20' x 5'
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist
1988
Poster
Courtesy Guerrilla Girls
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