Artists
This artist's work, One and Three Chairs, questions the nature of representation by combining a chair, a photograph of a chair, and the word "chair" on paper.
Who is Joseph Kosuth?
This term refers to art where the idea behind the work takes precedence over its aesthetic or material form.
What is Conceptual Art?
This artist’s challenged the distinction between high art and mass-produced consumer products by presenting supermarket packaging as art.
What is Brillo Boxes by Andy Warhol?
Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q. (1999)
What is the Mona Lisa?
TAPE PIECE IV
Voice Piece
Take a tape of you talking. Listen to it. Take another tape of you mimicking your voice. Listen to it.
1963 winter
What is Oh No?
This Italian artist's Merde d’Artiste (1961) challenged the art world by presenting his feces in cans, questioning value and commodification.
Who is Piero Manzoni?
A _____ refers to this type of object, often found or mass-produced, that an artist recontextualizes as art.
What is a readymade?
In this performance piece, Yoko Ono invited the audience to cut her clothes off, engaging them in the act of creation.
What is Cut Piece by Yoko Ono?
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Venus of the Rags, (1967)
What is a statue of Venus?
CENTRAL PARK POND PIECE
Go to the middle of the Central Park Pond and drop all your jewelries.
1956 autumn
What is Ono?
This artist, famous for his use of readymades, created Bicycle Wheel (1913), a piece featuring a mounted bicycle wheel, questioning the nature of art and craftsmanship.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
This type of art involves art made from written instructions or abstract ideas rather than physical objects.
What is Instruction-based Art?
What is Event Score?
This famous piece by Marcel Duchamp consists of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt," questioning what can be considered art.
What is Fountain by Marcel Duchamp?
Barbara Kruger, Your Body Is a Battleground, (1989)
What is photograph from fashion magazine?
ORIGAMI PIECE
Take a piece of paper and fold it into an airplane. Throw it as far as you can.
Walk up to it and tear off one of its wings. Fold what’s left into another plane.
Throw it as far as you can. Repeat until there’s nothing left.
1963 summer
What is Oh No?
Known for his use of erased works, this artist erased a drawing by Willem de Kooning, turning the act of erasure into an artwork in Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953).
Who is Robert Rauschenberg?
This avant-garde movement, which emerged in the 1960s, included artists like Yoko Ono and John Cage, and focused on spontaneous, often interactive works, blurring the lines between performance, music, and art.
What is Fluxus?
This artist’s work features a preserved shark suspended in formaldehyde, addressing themes of mortality and the fragility of life.
What is The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst?
Sherrie Levine, After Walker Evan, (1990)
What is rephotographed pictures from Walker Evan?
What is Allie Mae Boroughs by Walker Evan?
COLLECTING PIECE
Collect sounds in your mind that you have overheard through the week.
Repeat them in your mind in different orders one afternoon.
1963 autumn
What is Ono?
This pop artist is famous for his Campbell’s Soup Cans, questioning mass production and the relationship between consumer culture and art.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This movement, which began in the early 20th century, embraced absurdity, randomness, and anti-art sentiments, famously represented by Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain.
What is Dadaism?
This artwork by Sol LeWitt involves instructions for creating a wall drawing, emphasizing the idea over the actual execution of the piece.
What is Wall Drawing #1 by Sol LeWitt?
Kurt Schwitters, Merzbau, (1933-1943)
What is found/discarded objects?
EARTH PIECE
Listen to the sound of the earth turning.
1963 spring
What is Ono