Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History
Duchamp’s ideas, Hamilton consistently combined elements of pop- ular art and fine art, seeing both as belonging to the whole wo ...
Much of the unevenly painted surface consists of pigment roughly applied in a manner reminiscent of de Kooning’s work (FIG. 36-7 ...
ANDY WARHOL The quintessential American Pop artist was Andy Warhol(1928–1987). An early successful career as a com- mercial arti ...
that the age of mass media would enable everyone to become fa- mous for 15 minutes. His own fame has lasted much longer. CLAES O ...
and reproductions, they’re all influenced by photo-vision.”^18 The pho- tograph’s formal qualities also intrigued her, and she u ...
such as Supermarket Shopper(FIG. 36-29), depict stereotypical aver- age Americans, striking chords with the public precisely bec ...
Marc (FIG. 35-8). Like Marc, Rothenberg saw horses as metaphors for humanity: “The horse was a way of not doing people, yet it w ...
ports—from fragmented china plates bonded to wood, to paint on velvet and tarpaulin. He had a special interest in the physicalit ...
Dinner Party (FIG. 36-33), using craft techniques (such as china painting and needlework) traditionally practiced by women, to c ...
she had used to create a doll’s house for her part in Womanhouse, in the 1970s Schapiro began to make huge sewn collages, assemb ...
BARBARA KRUGER Another artist who has examined the male gaze and the culturally constructed notion of gender in her art is Barba ...
feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe. It ...
Other Social and Political Art Feminist issues are by no means the only social and political con- cerns that contemporary artist ...
narrative using both text (written in black dialect) and embroidered portraits interspersed with traditional patterned squares. ...
components so as to diminish immediate identifiability, the sculp- tures still retain a haunting connection to the overall theme ...
CHRIS OFILI Another contemporary artist who has explored his ethnic and racial heritage in his art is Chris Ofili(b. 1968). One ...
challenges stereotypes and unacknowledged assumptions.Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People;FIG. 36-46) is a large-sca ...
work that the lower edge of the painting cuts off their feet, thereby trapping the viewer in the painting’s compressed space. Go ...
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ The stoic, everyday tough- ness of the human spirit has been the subject of Polish fiber artist Magdalena ...
artist and work serve as the most visible symbols of everything that is wrong with contemporary American society. Whether or not ...
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