750, art 6 hrs

ARTH 207 Exam 3 Suggested Images: Arshile Gorky, The Liver is the Cock’s Comb, 1944. 16.4 Willem de Kooning, Woman I,1952. 16.6 Jackson Pollock, Number IA, 1948. 16.8 Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel, 1964-71. 16.20 Robert Raushenberg, Monogram, 1959. 19.9 Jasper Johns, Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), 1960. 19.13 Richard Hamilton, Just What is it that Makes Today’s Homes so Different, so

Appealing?, 1956. 19.1 Andy Warhol, Lavender Disaster, 1963. 19.41 James Rosenquist, F-111, 1964-65. 19.42 Donald Judd, Untitled, 1967. See 20.4 Sol LeWitt, Serial Project Number I (ABCD), 1966. See 20.44 Richard Serra, One Ton Prop, 1969. 20.49 Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965. 18.20 Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965. 22.1 John Baldassari, Art History, from Ingres and Other Parables, 1971. 22.2 Walter de Maria. Lightning Field. 1971-77. 23.20 Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. 1970. 23.22 Video still from Laurie Anderson’s O Superman, 1983. See 22.28 Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988. 22.35 Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981. 24.40 Cindy Sherman, Untitled #224 (after Caravaggio’s Bacchus), 1990. 24.47 Essay Questions: 1. Clement Greenberg produced a particular definition of painting that defined Modernism in art for years. Chose works that conform to or defy his definition of Modernist painting. You can look back to eras from before WW II. 2. Walter Benjamin came up with an influential definition of Modernism when he argued, “Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.” How do the works you chose demonstrate the possibilities of Benjamin's concept? 3. Richard Wolheleim explained Minimalist art involved art objects that had "minimal content." He continued: "either they are to an extreme degree undifferentiated in themselves and therefore possess a very low content of any kind, or else that the differentiation that they do exhibit, which may in some cases be considerable, comes not from the artist but from a non-artistic source, like nature or

the factory." Address the significance of these words and include several examples of works to support your ideas. 4. Address how Conceptualism, Earthworks and Performance Art provided an alternative to the hegemony of Abstract Expressionism in the art world. Cite several specific examples. 5. In what ways did Postmodernists reveal how the production of images took on meanings as they functioned in systems of power and value, including the power of the “male gaze.” Format: Chose 2 essays from the 5 listed above, then write responses of 350 words each—a minimum of 700 words total. Your text should be typed and double-spaced, and make sure you list your full name and date. Create just one file in PDF format. The exam must be uploaded to the course site by Thursday 11/18 (I cannot accept late work as that is the last day of classes). Include at least 3 images with each essay to support your arguments, which you can simply identify by artist, title (usually italicized), and date in parentheses. You do not need to provide illustrations, unless you opt to include any images that are not in our textbook. You should make references to our assigned readings and works we saw in live sessions, and you can use parenthetical citations (last name, pg#) to acknowledge your sources.