Complete List of Terms and Definitions for Chapter 36 part 2

Terms Definitions
Kitsch something which appeals to popular or low brow taste.
Making the working parts visible Georges Pompidou Center.
Hannah Wilke is a feminist artist who used her own body to represent scars with chewing gum shaped as vulvas to represent pain and pleasure. Woman would "take control of and have pride in the sensuality of their own terms, without deferring to concepts degenerated by culture.
Complexity having confusingly interrelated parts.
Adrian Piper is a feminist artist whose work sprang from her experiences as a light-skinned American woman. She put her statements on video tape.
Installation artwork creating an artistic environment in a room or gallery.
Frank Lloyd Wright was the modernist architect of the Guggenheim Museum and designed a snail, shell shaped building.
Eclecticism composed of elements from many sources. Past architectural elements were juxtaposed with contemporary elements or contemporary materials. Piazza d'Italia, The Portland Building.
Guerilla Girls is a feminist artist group who called themselves "the conscience of the art world" by calling attention to the injustice of major art institutions in the sexist and racist orientation.
Anselm Kiefer was a neo-expressionist who reexamined the German History of WWII and the Holocaust and the feelings of guilt these actions evoked in the German people. The landscapes were bleak and charred.
Wall of Steel situated a large (120 foot ) Cor-Ten steel construction Richard Serra.
Judy Chicago was a feminist artist who wanted to educate viewers about women's roles in history and the fine arts. The Dinner Party was a reinterpretation of the Last Supper. Because she uncovered so many important women, she did an installation of 39 women on a triangular table as an installation. Many of the plates had motifs of butterflies and vulvas.
Miriam Schapiro was a feminist artist who called her work femmages and created collages if fabric, buttons, sequins and lace to point out that women had doing this quilting art as long as women sewed
Pluralism the state of many diverse elements comprising society or entity.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is a native artist from Montana. She uses myriad cultural references to point out the invisibility of Native American artists, their negotiations with the "white man" and the cultural traditions of native peoples.
Julian Schnabel is a neo-expressionist who broke up china plates which he glued to board and painted. His work became an amalgamation of paint and mosaic so the work became a low-relief sculpture.
Magdalena Abakanowicz is a fiber artist dislocated by WWII used a plaster mold of "backs" to create an installation of individuals without heads, arms, or hands symbolizing individuals lost in the crowd in our society.
Deconstructivist Architecture disorder, dissonance, imbalance irregularity replace order, order, consistency regularity, harmony and completeness Hysolar Building in Germany, Bilbao Museum in Spain (Frank Gehry).
Post Modern Architecture Three words characterize the style- Pluralism, Complexity and Eclecticism.
Barbara Kruger is a feminist artist who explores the "male gaze". Her goal was to subvert the typical use of imagery in advertising with her huge word and photograph collages.
Lorna Simpson is a feminist artist whose work concerns the objectification of women and African-Americans. She also deals with "the gaze"
Kiki Smith is a feminist artist who deals with the objectification of the human body. She trained as an emergency medical technician so most of her early sculptures pertain to bodily organs and bodily fluids. Her work was never romanticized.
Neo-Expressionism is an art movement which emerged in the 1970's and reflects the artist's interest in expressing feeling in a new way.
Postmodernism offers something for everyone by accommodating a wide range of styles, subjects and formats. They moved from easel painting to installation and from abstraction to illusionistic scenes.
Modern Skyscrapers impersonal sterility of rectangular buildings out of tune with neighbor hoods (Sears Tower, Seagram's building and many others.
Wrapping modified the land with fabric (Christo and Jeanne-Claude).
Feminist Art is the art of the 70's which focused on the power that kept women in a subordinate place in society and the arts.
Deconstruction is an analytical strategy developed in the late 20th century according to which all cultural "constructs" (art, architecture, and literature) are "texts". People can read these texts in a variety of ways but cannot arrive at fixed or uniform meanings. Any interpretation can be valid, and readings differ from time to time, place to place, and person to person. This strategy has destabilized traditional interpretations. The facts of power, privilege and prejudice underlay all interpretation.
Sculptural Architecture organic forms for buildings (Guggenheim, Sydney Opera House, Notre Dame du Haut, Trans World Airlines(Kennedy airport).
Environmental and Site specific Art developed in a time of interest in environmental issues Christo and Jean Claude, Smithson.
Leon Golub expresses a brutal vision of contemporary life and of the anonymous characters participating in street violence, terrorism and torture.
Faith Ringgold is a feminist artist who uses art to explore issues associated with being an African American woman in contemporary America. After her mother's death she created a quilt but the work is political as well as personal.
David Wojnarowicz produces work dealing with homophobia and AIDS.
Cindy Sherman is a feminist artist who addresses the way Western art has presented women for the "male gaze" by her self-portraits in photography. She sees gender as a socially constructed concept and an unstable one.
Site-Specific and Environmental Art often called earthworks, used or organic materials often the land itself. Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer.
Susan Rothberg is a neo-expressionist doing images of horses as a metaphor of humanity.
Ana Mendieta is a feminist artist who used her body as a component in her art work and sets up a dialogue between her "womb" and the earth. Her Cuban heritage and her connection to the earth ("Through my earth /body sculptures I become one with the earth.