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produced. Some of the Up-and-Comers on the scene today, and the style that put them on the map, are:ROBERT ARNESON — California artist who founded Funk Art with intentionally vulgar ceramic busts

ASHLEY BICKERTON (b. 1959) — known for abstract wall sculptures, thickly encrusted with paint

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