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ROSS BLECKNER (b. 1949) — paints large-scale abstractions with subtle variations in color and pattern
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI — French Conceptual artist specializing in installations
JONATHAN BOROFSKY (b. 1942) — creates large, mixed-media installations of painting, sculpture, text, video, and found objects
SOPHIE CALLE — French artist known for narrative photo-sequences
JIM DINE — paints Pop images like tools, robes, hearts
ROBERT GOBER (b. 1954) — explores flesh and the body in sculptures made of wax and human hair
GROUP MATERIAL AND GRAN FURY (includes David Wojnarowicz, 1954 — 92) — two activist artists’ collectives dealing with issues relating to AIDS
GUERRILLA GIRLS — left-wing artists’ collective that produces posters protesting censorship, sexism (example: Mona Lisa with fig leaf covering mouth)
REBECCA HORN — combines moving mechanical parts in feminist installations
JÖRG IMMENDORFF — German Neo-Expressionist obsessed with socio-political issues
ALEX KATZ — radically stylizes imagery in clean, figurative paintings
MIKE KELLEY (b. 1954) — signature work: bedraggled stuffed animals and dolls
BRUCE NAUMAN (b. 1941) — Conceptual artist known for wax-cast heads and video installations
NAM JUNE PAIK — “father” of video art
ANTOINE PREDOCK (b. 1937) — quirky New Mexico architect who reveres landscape and site
TIM ROLLINS (b. 1955) and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) — collaboration between artist and South Bronx teenagers who paint on pages of books
RICHARD PRINCE (b. 1949) — Appropriation artist who invented “re-photography,” or making photographs of photographs; also does silk screen paintings of cartoons
LUCAS SAMARAS (b. 1936) — creates surreal images by altering photographs
NANCY SPERO (b. 1926) — feminist artist who layers visual images and written language
DOUG AND MIKE STARN (the Starn Twins, b. 1961) — manipulate, deface, recombine photographs
PAT STEIR (b. 1940) — known for abstract streams of paint inspired by waterfalls
PHILIP TAAFFE (b. 1955) — does abstract paintings composed of Byzantine patterns
CARRIE MAE WEEMS (b. 1953) — combines oddly lit, blurred black-and-white photos with text (example: “I sided with men so long I forgot women had a side.”)
TERRY WINTERS (b. 1949) — paints organic forms in earthy colors
INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abbott, Berenice
Abstract Expressionism
Acconci, Vito
Action painting
Adams, Ansel
African art
Age of Bronze, The
Agnew Clinic, The
Albers, Josef
Altamira Caves, Spain
Ambulance Wagons and Drivers at Harewood Hospital
American Gothic
American Scene School
Analytic Cubism
Andre, Carl
Anthemius of Tralles
Apollo Conducts the Bride, Beatrice, to Babarossa of Burgundy
Appropriation art
Arbus, Diane
Architecture
Arnolfini Wedding
Arp, jean
Arrangement in Gray and Black No.
Art Brut, L’
Art for Art’s Sake
Art Nouveau
Arte Povera
Arts and Crafts Movement
Ashcan School
Atelier des Batignolles, L’
Atget, Eugene
At the Moulin Rouge
At the Time of the Louisville Flood Aztecs
Bacchanal of the Adrians
Bacon, Francis
Baldessari, John
Balzac
Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Barbizon School
Baroque period
Catholic
Dutch
English
Flemish
Italian
Northern
Spanish
Baselitz, Georg
Basquiat, Jean-Michel
Bathers, The
Battle of Issus
Baudelaire, Charles
Bauhaus
Bay, The
Bazille, Jean-Frédéric
Baziotes, William
Bearden, Romare
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beaubourg, Paris
Beauvais Cathedral, Choir of
Beaux-Arts style
Bellows, George
Bend Sinister
Benton, Thomas Hart
Berlin Street Scene
Bernini, Gianlorenzo
Bêtes de la Mer, Les
Beuys, Joseph
Bierstadt, Albert
Big Ben
Bingham, George Caleb
Bird
Bird in Space
Birth of Venus
Black Mountain College
Blindman’s Meal, The
Blue, Orange, Red
Blue, Red, Green
Blue Knight
Boccioni, Umberto
Bonheur, Rosa
Book of Kells
Borofsky, Jonathan
Borromini, Francesco
Bosch, Hieronymous
Botticelli,