Assignments

You must answer all questions in this set in order to be exempt from the Ch 34 Quiz #3.
 * Ch 34 Study Guide Questions Set #3**
 * 1) 1. What role did Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro play in the American feminist movement?
 * 2) 2. How did Judy Chicago’s //Dinner Party// aim to establish respect for women and their art?
 * 3) 3. What is a “femmage” according to Miriam Schapiro?
 * 4) 4. How does Cindy Sherman challenge the “male gaze” in her work?
 * 5) 5. How does Barbara Kruger attempt to subvert and expose the messages of mass media?
 * 6) 6. Why did Ana Mendieta seek a spiritual connection with nature?
 * 7) 7. What was Hannah Wilke’s ultimate hope in creating a piece such as //Starification Object Series//?
 * 8) 8. How did Kiki Smith’s //Untitled// address concerns over the control of one’s body?
 * 9) 9. Why does Faith Ringgold primarily use fabric as her medium? How does //Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima// combine both personal and political issues?
 * 10) 10. How does Adrian Piper hope to effect social change with her work?
 * 11) 11. Explain how the hair styles in Lorna Simpson’s work //Stereo Styles// comment on racial differences?
 * 12) 12. How does Melvin Edwards explore what lynching means “metaphorically or symbolically?”
 * 13) 13. In what ways does the viewer interact with an installation like David Hammon’s //Public Enemy//?
 * 14) 14. What about Jaune Quick-To-See Smith’s work is reminiscent of Rauschenberg’s combines?
 * 15) 15. What techniques did Leon Golub use in //Mercenaries (IV)// to give the viewer a sense of being in peril?
 * 16) 16. How are fiber materials symbolic for Magalena Abakanowicz? What type of mood is suggested in //Backs//?
 * 17) 17. What types of issues and commentary do David Wojnarowicz and Krzysztof Wodiczko address in their works?
 * 18) 18. How was Nam June Paik influenced by John Cage? How did the video synthesizer allow Paik to create works like //Global Grove//?
 * 19) 19. What connection can be made between David Em’s //Nora// and earlier Surrealist works?
 * 20) 20. What medium does Jenny Holzer use for her //Truisms//? BONUS: create your own Truism.
 * 21) 21. How does Bill Viola create a “pure sensory experience” for the viewer?
 * 22) 22. Explain Tony Oursler’s sculptural videos.
 * 23) 23. How does the work of Jeff Koons follow in the footsteps of Pop artists? What is different about his work than the original Pop artists?
 * 24) 24. Explain the message and progression of images in Mark Tansey’s //A Short History of Modernist Painting//.
 * 25) 25. What types of critique does Hans Haacke and the Guerrilla Girls offer to the art world?
 * 26) 26. How does Matthew Barney connect a particular body function to notions of creativity?