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four F’s
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- Form: Art made to be looked at
- Function: Art created to be used and lived with
- Flow: Art that seeks to foster understanding between people, cultures
- Futures: Art that aims to make change or to imagine a different future
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Fountain of Youth
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- Juan Ponce de Leon
- Originally looking for longevity
- Scholars found he was looking for political gain instead
- History can change understanding of something
3
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fountains symbolism
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- Sustenance
- Infrastructure
- Power
- Beauty
4
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water
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- essential to life
- catches light, changes shape, creates patterns
- not just a substance—it is a realm, a universe, a journey, an adventure
- controlled by engineering is a symbol of power
5
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Fountain of the Four Rivers
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- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Nile river
- Ganges river
- Danube river
- River de la plata
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Q
Kara Walker
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- Fons Americanus
- fountain based on Victoria Memorial and it’s turned upside down
- depicts abuses
- inspired by victoria memorial (across from buckingham)
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Pre-curation / Post-curation
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pre: 15k portraits; post: edmond bellamy
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Margie Soudek
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salt shakers
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Meredith Moore
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made the short film
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Man with a Hoe
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- Jean-François Millet
- forged study w Paul Cazot
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Peter Guppy
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- collector
- checking a Kazimir Malevich painting
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elements of authenticity
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- Signature/stamp
- Composition
- Medium
- Style
- Drawings/documentation
- Provenance
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provenance
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- record of ownership of a work of art or an antique
- guide for authenticity
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connoisseurship
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Love or taste for fine objects of art
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Valentine house
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shonibare put figures wearing dutch wax prints into it
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subversion
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undermining of power and authority of established system
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Adweneasa
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- most complicated of kente cloths
- peak of skill
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tradition
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- “there is no creation w/o tradition”
- Continuity + Change
- Repetition + Variation
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Rover Thomas
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- Natural earth pigments on canvas
- created paintings on boards in response to natural disaster in Australia
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Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency
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shack, structure made by aboriginal ppl w/o moving into temporary shelter
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Ngurrara
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- “country”
- painted by senior traditional owners of the Great Sandy Desert of northern Western Australia
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Mona J. Chuguna and Pijaju Peter Skipper
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For skipper, painting makes wangarr of what is gone and restores mangi
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wangarr
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ghost image of someone
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mangi
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spirit and physical trace of a person
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Dreamings
several aboriginal pieces
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Gunybi Ganambarr
- Aboriginal descent artist
- Using non-traditional mediums
- Yolgnu culture
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Mahmoud Darwish
painted for the refugee crises of the ppl who were drowning
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Bahia Shebab
- multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on interaction and intersection of modern identity and ancient cultural heritage
- believes art should be employed for social change
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Ledger drawing
- narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth
- predominantly practiced by Plains Indian
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Chris Pappan
- Ledger artist
- believes that native ppl can hold themselves to a higher standard and fight for existence in these lands
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Agency
having autonomy over art
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returning the gaze
looking at smth from a certain perspective
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Caryatid
human figure holding something up
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Warp and weft
go different ways
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Asafo flags
- Applique cotton flags from ghana
- ex. Despite the size of the elephant, it is the antelope that receives the stool
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Camara laye
- guinean write wrote story about boy’s initiation
- memoir
- boy needed to get initiated and he was scared bc he didn’t know if the diara was a beast or a man
- happened under bombax tree
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Kondén diara
lion that eats little boys
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Vignette
design page within a book
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Grafting
like collaging but in the biological world
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3 windows
1. Black Boy's Window (David Hammons, 1968)
2. Black Girls' Window (Betye Saar, 1969)
3. The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison, 1970)
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Betye Saar quotes
- What’s the difference
- Feelings are the goal
- Death is at the center of everything
- Seduce the viewer
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Betye Saar
- uses assemblage in autobiographical way
- creativity tied to being a mother
- flea markets for materials
- works with time (clocks)
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Seductive transformation
turning a found object or image into art assemblage
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Bese saka
power and unity daisy adinkra symbol
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Feelings quotes
- Saar: Feelings are the goal
- Harrison: I want you to feel something
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Counter-monument against fascism
Esther Shalev-Gerz and Jochen Gerz
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Sukkot rules
- Frame: 2.5+ walls, stable but not permanent
- Roof: organic, semi-permeable material, see the stars, feel the rain
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creative expression of sukkot in lives of these ppl
- Construction - aligns builders w tradition
- Decoration - express personal connection to one’s history and values
- Interpretation of space - prayer gives structure and hope
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Vernacular
What is indigenous, common and shared in a community or region
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Schatzkammer
Vault in tradition of royal treasure room
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Wunderkammer
cabinet of curiosities, cabinet of wonder, related to schatzkammer
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Restitution
returning to its owner
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Elsewhere museum
Sylvia gray and george scheer bought building and had army surplus business
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Museum anthropology
looks at how material culture is displayed and portrayed in museums and the purpose and police of museums
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Jacob Riis
photographed how the other half lives
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Ruth abram
social activist who opened Historic House Museum alongside Anita Jacobson, preserved the historical physical fabric because they saw it as an "urban time capsule"
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Josephine Baldizzi
daughter of rosaria baldizzi who kept the room v tidy in tenement apartments
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New museology approach
new way to approach museums: having an experience
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Stabilized ruin
tenement museum bc as its used, its being run down, but ppl try to conserve it
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