April 2009
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Daniel Joseph Martinez with Phong Bui - The... →
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final week questions
you’ll be reading about and considering the work and measures of success for Daniel Joseph Martinez, Michelle Lopez, and Matthew Barney.
1. Please summarize from the readings what is meant by the artist chapter sub-headings
A. Political Success-Diffusing Concentrations of Power
Daniel Joseph Martinez doesn’t like to be referred to as an artist, but prefers to be called a “Tactical...
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2nd to last week
This week we are reading about China Adams, Alix Lambert, (the Intro to Measuring Succes) and Betsy Damon.
1.In our book their are about 15 female artists in comparison to the 25 male artists that it focuses one. I’m not sure if the book is a good example of how many women artists there are or their prominence in the art world, although it does seem to focus more on male artists and how...
Questions again
This week we are reading and discussing Tony Oursler, Mariko Mori, and Gregory Green.
1, Tony Oursler is invested in his choice of presenting video on blank canvases of dolls or even flowers. His investment of presenting faces is based on his theory that people are most attracted to the face. He invests in his own work that he will agitate and provoke distress, but still make the stress tolerable...
Week ? questions
This week you are reading about Marco Maggi, Victoria Vesna, and Wenda Gu.
1. In a way, our work in studio does make me see a connection between our work and Marco Maggi’s as we both use commonly thought of and real items in our works. When we watched his work on the maccintosh apple, we sat for around 4 minutes staring at a movie of an apple that seemed, to all of us, not to change when it...
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