Questions for the Final and Study Guide

Okay, so it is crazy outside, but we gotta study for the final.

I am going to give you four questions on the final, you are going to pick two and answer them. You guys gotta give at least three examples for the questions, so get ready to talk about the artist, and example of their work, and issues they are working woth which are relevant to their work. An example of a right answer is "Smithon was dealing with issues of entropy, which he developed in his spiral jetty on the great salt lake." and then you would explain all of those things in detail. A wrong answer is just shoving things together, "the Vienna Actionists were dealing with color and form, they wanted to make murals in LA like the Vietnam War Memorial." That is not right, think about what you write abd don't just sling info together, build up an essay that makes sense, and thats something you know.

The questions:

1)
Discuss, compare and contrast issues of site-specificity in the postminimalist practice of at least three artists, gives names and examples of their work.

2)
What are the issues important to artists working with performance art? Give the names of at least three artists and examples of their work, then relate the issues to their art.

3)
Discuss the issues of appropriation, the aura, documentation, simulacra, advertising and technology in relation to photography and video, give three examples (name, example, etc.)

4)
Discuss Duchamp's importance in the development of conceptual art, what topics, issues and forms did he pioneer that became important for conceptual artists and their practices (give three examples).

Now we will study like the friggin winds of change.

Hazah!
Le Prof Shafier of the Obliqueness and Teen Poems about Dead Birds