A term coined by Marcel Duchamp to describe mass-produced objects elevated to the status of art.
What is readymade?
100
Artworks whose subject matter is the process of their creation.
What is Process art?
100
Donald Judd is to boxes as this artist is to fire bricks.
Who is Carl Andre?
100
Term Robert Smithson used for his ‘indoor earthworks,’ which describe a specific place located outside the gallery.
What is non-site?
200
The practice of producing sculpture (particularly stone sculpture) by cutting directly into the material.
What is direct carving?
200
Term used with reference to art that celebrates certain values or forms regarded as primal, ancestral, fertile, and regenerative.
What is primitivism?
200
French counterpart of the American Pop artists that counted Yves Klein and Arman as members.
What is the New Realists?
200
American sculptor whose large-scale, site-specific, Cor-Ten steel sculptures often cause controversy.
Who is Richard Serra?
200
Pop sculptor George Segal’s The Diner is a good example of this.
What is a tableau?
300
Reproduction of a three-dimensional object produced by means of a mold.
What is casting?
300
Sculpture that depends on motion.
What is kinetic?
300
Radical Italian art movement from the late 1960s and 1970s whose artists explored a range of unconventional processes and nontraditional ‘everyday’ materials.
What is Arte Povera?
300
This American sculptor sees mannequins as contemporary counterparts to ancient Greek figurative sculptures.
Who is Charles Ray?
300
Artworks which explore themes that transgress and threaten our sense of cleanliness and propriety particularly referencing the body and bodily functions.
What is abject art?
400
Fusion of metal through application of heat; encompasses brazing, soldering, and commercial manufacturing or fabrication.
What is welding?
400
A term referring to abstract forms or images that evoke associations with living forms such as plants and the human body.
What is biomorphic?
400
Name given to American art in 1980s that represented branded goods and other everyday objects as art.
What is commodity sculpture?
400
German artist who described his practice as ‘social sculpture.’
Who is Joseph Beuys?
400
Jochen and Esther Gerz’s Harburg Monument Against Fascism is a good example of this.
What is a counter-monument?
500
To shape a pliable material, such as wax or clay.
What is modeling?
500
A three-dimensional composition made from a variety of traditionally non-artistic materials and objects.
What is assemblage?
500
Systematic inquiry into the practices and ethos surrounding art institutions such as art academies, galleries, and museums by artists like Michael Asher and Hans Haacke.
What is institutional critique?
500
Artist whose sculptures made with crushed auto bodies are sometimes associated with Abstract Expressionism.
Who is John Chamberlain?
500
Word Robert Rauschenberg used to describe the series of assemblages he created during the 1950s.