Midterm

Question 1

Answer 1

James Terrell, Daygo, Post Minimalism

Question 2

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Class Oldenburg, Pie à la Mode, Happening

Question 3

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Joseph Beuys, Fat Chair, Fluxus

Question 4

Fluxus

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A term coined in 1961 for a very loosely connected group of artists that formed as a Duchampian reaction against the expressionistic and symbolic aspects of happenings.

Question 5

Joseph Beuys

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First postwar artist to achieve international celebrity based on the exploration of his indigenously German identity. He rejected materialism in favor of an essential spirituality as he sought to bring the fundamental relationship of people to myth and magic to the surface.

Question 6

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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, Fluxus

Question 7

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Yoko Ono, frame from the film Fly, Fluxus

Question 8

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Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, Minimalism

Question 9

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Donald Judd, Untitled, Minimalism

Question 10

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Frank Stella, Lake City, Minimalism

Question 11

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Frank Stella, Hatra I, Minimalism

Question 12

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Donald Judd, Untitled, Minimalism

Question 13

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Tony Smith, Die, Minimalism

Question 14

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Carl Andre, Pyre (Element Series), minimalism

Question 15

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Carl Andre, Steel Magnesium Plain, minimalism

Question 16

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Carl Andre, Stone Field Sculpture, Earth Work

Question 17

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Dan Flavin, Untitled, minimalism

Question 18

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Dan Flavin, Monument for V. Tatlin, minimalism

Question 19

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Robert Morris, Unritled (“L” Beams), minimalism

Question 20

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Barry Le Va, Continuous and Related Activities: Discontinued by the Act of Dropping, post minimalism

Question 21

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Robert Morris, Untitled, post minimalism

Question 22

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Robert Morris, Untitled, post minimalism

Question 23

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Sol LeWitt, Wall/Floor Piece #4, minimalism

Question 24

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Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #1, minimalism

Question 25

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Richard Serra, Belts, post minimalism

Question 26

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Keith Sonnier, MM (Neon Wrapping Light Bulbs), minimalism

Question 27

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Richard Serra, Splashing, post minimalism

Question 28

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Richard Serra, Corner Prop, post minimalism

Question 29

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Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, Earth Art

Question 30

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Michael Heizer, Displaced-Replaced Mass, Earth Art

Question 31

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Michael Heizer. Double Negative, Earth Art

Question 32

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Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room, Earth Art

Question 33

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Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field, Earth Work

Question 34

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Robert Smithson, A Nonsite (Franklin, NJ), Earth Art

Question 35

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Robert Smithson, Rock Salt and Mirror Square, Earth Art

Question 36

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Robert Smithson, Sprial Jetty, Earth Art

Question 37

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Piers Maximo, Socle du Monde (Pedestal for the World), Performance

Question 38

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Gilbert and George, The Singing Sculpture (“Underneath the Arches”), Performance

Question 39

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Herman Nitsch, 1st Action, Performance

Question 40

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, Earth Art

Question 41

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Christo and Jeanne Claude, Wrapped Reichstag, Earth Art

Question 42

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Christo and Jeanne Claude, Surrounded Islands, Earth Art

Question 43

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Christo and Jeanne Claude, The Gates, Central Park, Earth Art

Question 44

Arte Povera

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"poor art" or "impoverished art" - was the most significant and influential avant-garde movement to emerge in Europe in the 1960s. It grouped the work of around a dozen Italian artists whose most distinctly recognizable trait was their use of commonplace materials that might evoke a pre-industrial age, such as earth, rocks, clothing, paper and rope. Reaction against modernist abstract painting.