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| Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981 |
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| Barbara Kruger: Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am), 1990, photolithograph on paper shopping bag |
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| Sherrie Levine: After Walker Evans # 4, 1981, b/w photograph |
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| Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Still, # 54, 1978, b/w photograph |
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| Cindy Sherman: Untitled, # 175, 1987 (photograph) |
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| Wendy Richmond: Public/Privacy: Wendy Richmond’s Surreptitious Cellphone. 2007-2008. |
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| Hasan M. Elahi: Tracking Transcience, since 2002-present |
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| Victoria Vesna: Bodies INCorporated, since 1995 |
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| Inez Lamsweerde: Sasja 90-60-90, 1992, duraflex print, computer-generated |
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| Anthony Aziz/Sammy Cucher: George and Ken from the Dystopia Series, 1994 |
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| Laura Stein: Smile Tomato, 1996, chromogenic color photograph |
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| Alexis Rockman: The Farm, 2000, oil and acrylic on wood panel |
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| Bryan Crockett: Ecce Homo Rattus, 2000, marble and epoxy sculpture, 6 feet |
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| Eduardo Kac: Genesis I, 1999, genetic art installation |
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| Andres Serrano: Piss Christ, 1987 (cibachrome print) |
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| Breast Cancer Fund for San Francisco Outdoor Advertising: “It’s No Secret”, 2000 |
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*Usually referring to new trends in art, architecture and literature since the early 1970s.
*Characterized by eclecticism in style and content.
*Opposed the Modernist preoccupation with purity of form and technique, and aimed to eradicate the divisions between art, popular culture, and the media (“high” and “low”).
*Postmodern artists employ influences from an array of past art movements, mass media, and popular culture in general.
*They embrace diversity and the mix of ideas, media, and forms. |
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| Deconstructive art is a critical use and interpretation of (existing) texts, as well as artworks, films, advertisements, fashion, political discourse, etc. (Barbara Kruger; Lorna Simpson). |
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| The practice of creating a new work by taking a pre-existing image from another context (art history, advertising, mass media) and, either combining this image with text (Barbara Kruger), or presenting it as the artist’s (Sherrie Levine). |
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| An accurate imitation of a particular style such as a specific genre of film as in Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills series. |
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Bio-cybernetic reproduction
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| The combination of computer technology and biological science that makes cloning and genetic engineering possible. In a more extended sense it refers to the new technical media and structures of political economy that are transforming the conditions of all living organisms on this planet. |
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