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Seminar in Historical Photos
Final Exam Review
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
12/05/2008

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Lynne Cohen[image]
Definition

Never includes people

Cold, blue

sterile architecture - interior shots

imply claustrophobia

unrepresentative of her hand 

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First Pop Artist
Definition
British, Richard Hamilton
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Photo Realists
Definition

Chuck Close- self portraiture, snapshot aesthetic

Richarde Estes- reflections

Audrey Flack 

Term

Rauschenberg uses..

[image]

Definition

Collages of photos and found objects

"combines"

art is not a mirror, it must contain life itself

silkscreen, repeated imagery 

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Warhol was previously...
Definition

An artist for advertising companies

all about recognizable fame/ pop media/ universality of iconography 

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Lucas Samaras

[image]

Definition

Manipulates polaroid pictures for monstrous results

with a painterly aesthetic 

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Conceptual Artist
Definition

Places little emphasis on the physical materials involved in the artwork

Emphasis on language

Rejects minimalism and artist as singular genius 

Term
Szarkowski
Definition

Sharp critic of British photography,

originated there, directed the medium for 120 years and then hadn't really progressed 

Responsible for proliferation of photography schools

5 points of photography 

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Color film
Definition

deemed the biggest hindrance to photojournalism the world has ever seen by British war pj- Griffiths

Color = Emotion & controls on reception 

Emotionally arousing 

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Effects of electronic media
Definition
made smaller sub-cultures and transient workers able to maintain ties with their own home countries and ethnic groups
Term

New Social Documentary Movement

[image]

Definition

Mary Ellen Mark

Niki S Lee

Dona Furtado

Sebastian Delgado

Document "Society" not specific causes

 

Term
Orlan
Definition

Uses digital media in her work, had plastic surgery to emulate classical greecian beauty types

uses photographs as documentation 

Term

David Hockney

[image]

Definition

Follows in the footsteps of the Bechers in a complicated manner

Post Modern 

Painter/ photographer

snapshot format

cubist fracturing of space 

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Hybridization
Definition
An Inclusive and Mixed use of styles
Term
Black and White Photography in the 1970's was
Definition

Considered a reference to photography's association with seriousness of purpose

Dedication to craft

Somber

Historical significance 

Term
Expressionism
Definition

Polke, Kiefer

Shows artist's hand 

Term

Ann Hardy

[image]

Definition
Constructed Reality
Term

Sandy Skogland

[image]

Definition

"Constructed Reality"

creates monochromatic 3-d rooms to photograph

Specifically made for images 

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Appropriation
Definition

Sherry Levinne, flagstone for the shift to postmodern

"after walker evans"

Richard Prince 

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Cindy Sherman
Definition

Post Modern

multicultural/ hybridization

Rejection of singular artist

Embrace your influences

Concept- Social Critique

Discussing our environment as humans- its influence on us.

The Now. 

Responding to role of women in art 

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Post Studio
Definition

Currently in.

Work is happening anywhere, not location dependent

Emphasis on post production- PS 

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Post Modern is Inclusive

[image]

Definition

Starn Twins, Barbara Krueger, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman 

Historical Events

Popular Media

Global Issues of Concern 

Question galleries, institutions

Dematerialization 

Term
Robert Fuss
Definition

No Camera

Photograms

 

Term
Globalization
Definition

Smaller World due to technology

Electronic medias effect on the world

Unprecedented international mobility of people, money, and materials 

Term
Cultural curation
Definition
Term

Anselm Kiefer

[image]

 

Definition

Materials utilized are very important: Lead/ alchemy (change germany's history)/ corrosion/ straw(agrarian society)

Large and Heavy 

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Art Photographer
Definition

(Photo Based Artist)

Only use photography to make art 

Building upon art history

Defined by machine- exclusivity of medium

Taking photographs 

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Photography by Artists
Definition

(Photo-based work)

Performance art

Documentation of installation 

Contemporary, extensive education is not required

Making photographs

against Bresson's "decisive moment" 

Term
[image]Gerhard Richter
Definition

Blurred images, specific nature of photography records a span of time

Uses photographs to make paintings

Artist who uses photography

Ref. Julia Margaret Cameron

soft focus adds element of mystery/ dream like/ memory & recollection 

PHOTOS ABILITY TO DISRUPT/ CHANGE IMAGERY 

Term
Andreas Gursky

[image]

Definition

 

Expand space, exaggerate color

global capitalism

intense color

computer modified

Trained by Becher's- German deadpan straight  

Purist, no information except that in the image 

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Thomas Demand

[image]

Definition

 

models of paper

camera to document- then destroys installation

PHOTO BASED ARTIST 

Term
szarkowski's 5 characteristics of Photo
Definition

The thing itself (picture- not reality)

Detail (clarity- isolate fragment of reality)

Frame (Choosing and eliminating)

Vantage Point (Unexpected point of view)

Time Exposures (Records TIME) 

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Modernism
Definition

Steiglitz, Weston, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham

Emphasis on print itself

Rejection of pop culture

Not influenced by other sources

Artist as singular genius 

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Sigmar Polke

[image]

Definition

 

Reference to ominous

Post- war Germany

Halftone dots- mass media reference

considered to be a painter

juxtaposition of images and ideas

use of textiles/ various materials 

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