Ch 34 Study Guide Questions Set #3

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