Exam 30: The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980

Cai Guo-Qiang has produced works that he intends even for an audience of extraterrestials.

Postmodern art has continued the dominance of New York in the art world.

Who designs very sculptural architecture with organic, free-flowing forms?

Which photographer seems to be making a still from a grade B movie?

The feminist group of artists who spotlight the marginalization of women artist is known as the:

Who often incorporates body fluids or deteriorating bodies?

What influences, aesthetic and structural, are visible in Michael Graves' Public Services Building in Portland?

Which installation artist often evokes themes of his Russian heritage?

Art historians have named the period since 1980:

The work of Fred Wilson subverts traditional museum installations by:

Compare and contrast Rogers and Piano's Centre National d'Art et Culture Georges Pompidou and Gehry's Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao as examples of museum architecture.

The architect who in a book called for a new style that rejected the cold, abstract Modernist International Style and was referential was:

Discuss the new media of the last 20 years. What media are being used? In what ways can these art forms address issues and ideas differently?

Frank Gehry designed what kind of building for Bilbao, Spain?

Describe the social and artistic forces behind Basquiat's painting.

Maya Lin was a student in the architecture program at Yale University before receiving the commission for the:

Which photographer is interested in revealing a viewer's participation in determining meaning in her works?

The term Postmodernism was first coined by French philosophers Jacques Derrida and

Whose work often incorporates explosives, especially fireworks?

Postmodern artists generally avoid conceptual questions in their work.