Familiar Faces
German philosopher important to postmodernism and poststructuralism.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Working Collaboratively.
Refers to a contemporary art movement that started around 1980 and continues through the 21st century. Reactionary movement to Modernism.
Postmodernism.
Jacques Derrida.
A direct challenge to the idea of originality important to modernists.
Appropriation.
Refers to a concept related Postmodernism that addresses that there is no one style of art that is characteristic of the art movement.
(Postmodern) Pluralism.
Used herself as the subject matter of her artwork in which she confronted the male gaze and imitated scenes from movies.
Cindy Sherman.
Mixing multiple direct cultural influences into a single work.
Hybridizing.
A philosophy that extends beyond art that empowers women.
Feminism.
Character based upon two jazz singers and who outlives them both.
Betty Boop.
Example: Fred Wilson's "Mining the Museum" exhibit where he placed slave shackles with silver tea sets and whipping posts with fine furniture of the times.
Recontextualizing.
Theory following Structuralism.
Barbara Kruger.
Objection to the objectification of of women in art.
Confronting the Gaze.
Copies of things that no longer have an original or never had one to begin with. Concept developed especially by Jean Baudrillard, a French theorist of Postmodernism.
Simulacra.