Exam 33: The International Scene Since 1950

How are Assemblages and Happenings related?

How did Carolee Schneemann's performances challenge the traditional role of women as subjects in art?

What is Performance Art?

Allan Kaprow and Yves Klein were both associated with __________.

________________ is the term for artists' use of actions, movements, and gestures of their own bodies.

In the 1950s and 1960s several artists argued that ______________was just as important as a finished art object.

Saarinen wanted to evoke the excitement of air travel in his expressive and swooping design for a/an __________.

_______________ was the logical extension of the Minimalist move away from the handcrafted object.

What term is related to the wide range of artistic styles, interests, and cultural meanings that developed during the Postmodern period in art?

Many feminist artists embraced craft media because _________________.

Joseph Beuys developed a ______________ in performances to explain the inexplicable.

A major aim of first-generation feminist artists was _______________.

What are some of the issues New Media artists address in their art?

Why did the Minimal artists eliminate personal feeling and social references from their work?

Mendieta's Tree of Life celebrates the notion that women ___________.

Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary was at the center of a controversy about public __________ in the arts.

How did the Conceptual artists eliminate the art object?

What are the origins of Pop Art?

Using examples from each of the last four decades, write an essay comparing how contemporary artists have addressed the issue of identity. Consider their varied strategies, media, and aesthetics, as well as how their interests have been altered by cultural changes over the last 40 years.

The works of Joseph Beuys and ____________ inspired Ana Mendieta.