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Theme
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Artist
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Work
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Comments
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S1/
2001
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Place
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Barry McGee&
Margaret Kilgallen
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Indian folk art
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influenced by graffiti
art
like handmade things
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S2/
2003
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Time
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Martin Puryear
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Ladder for Book
T. Washington
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36 feet long wooden
ladder
struggle, progress for
the race, long, slow
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S3/
2005
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Power
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Cai Guoqiang
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Inopportune
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--gunpowder, explosive
power,
destruction, danger
cut paper, lay down, explode,poppy flower
-- father, ink painting
art is not about the things you see,art is about anything you don’t say
--car bomb, stuffed
tiger pierced by arrows,imperfection, pain, visual impact
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S4/
2007
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Ecology
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Robert Adams
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Turning Back
(1999-2003)
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illustrates
deforestation in the West,
involved an exhaustion
of resources and spirit
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S5/
2009
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Fantasy
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Cao Fei
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Hip Hop series video
Fukuoka (2005)
New York (2006)
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--see the world with a
sense of humor
--street culture,
natural, wild,free
spontaneous form of expression,make different kind of things together,
music itself becomes a very emotion part
of the work
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S6/
2012
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Change
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Catherine Opie
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Lake Erie
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spring, summer, fall (4
pictures), winter (5)
during different
seasons, same location
sunrise, sunset
work had potential to
convey time
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S7/
2014
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Fiction
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Joan Jonas
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Mirror Piece I:
Reconfigured (1969)
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--mirror, perfect
vehicle
--all works, involved
dealing with space
--the visual of the
mirrors in the space,
how they reflecting and how they look,
to learn how to move in public
audience uneasy, seeing themselves in the mirror,
so the mirrors reflecting the audience, space and other performers,
the artist like the dimensionality of this
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Art 21
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