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Art and Politics Reading: Spivey, “Art and Power” Terms/Concepts: power, politics, protest, Key Monuments: Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Alfredo Jaar, The Silence of Nduwayezu, 1997 (Part of the Rwanda Project 1994- 2000) Margaret Bourke-White, Louisville Flood Victims, 1937. Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-1979. Mel Chin, Revival Field, Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990-1993.

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Art and Politics

Reading:Spivey, “Art and Power”

Terms/Concepts:power, politics, protest,

Key Monuments:Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937.Alfredo Jaar, The Silence of Nduwayezu, 1997 (Part of the Rwanda Project 1994-2000)Margaret Bourke-White, Louisville Flood Victims, 1937.Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-1979.Mel Chin, Revival Field, Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990-1993.

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Vera Mukhina, Industrial Worker and Collective Farm Girl, made for the Paris International Exhibition of 1937.

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Power vs. Politics

Power“possession of control, authority, or influence over others.”A forceOne voice determining outcomes and wielding influence.

Politics“Who gets what, when and how.” –Harold LasswellA negotiationPersuasionMultiple voices competing for influence.

How do individual artists gain an influence over social matters?

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Topics of Protest

1. War2. Inequality3. Environment

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Topics of Protest

1. War2. Inequality3. Environment

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Fransisco de Goya, The Third of May, 1814-1815.

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Fransisco de Goya, The Third of May, 1814-1815.

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Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937.

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Guernica

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The aftermath of the bombing in Guernica, Spain, 1937.

Reports of the escalating situation in Spain from French newspaper, L’Humanite, 1936.

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Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937

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Alfredo Jaar, The Silence of Nduwayezu, 1997 (Part of the Rwanda Project 1994-2000)

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Alfredo Jaar, The Silence of Nduwayezu, 1997 (Part of the Rwanda Project 1994-2000)

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Comments by the Artist

See Video Below

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Topics of Protest

1. War2. Inequality3. Environment

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Margaret Bourke-White, Louisville Flood Victims, 1937.

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The Great Depression

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Louisville Flood of 1937

70% of Louisville was underwater, leaving over 175,000 people homeless.

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Margaret Bourke-White, Louisville Flood Victims, 1937.

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Collaborators on the Dinner Party, 1974.

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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-1979.

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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-1979.

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Judy Chicago, Emily Dickenson Placemat, The Dinner Party, 1974-1979.

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The Guerilla Girls

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Guerilla Girls, Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989.

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Jacques Dominique Ingres, The Odalisque, 1814.

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Guerrilla Girls, Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1986.

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Topics of Protest

1.War2.Inequality3.Environment

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Evening Cloud, Ellery Lake, Sierra Nevada, California, 1934.

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Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, 1944.

“The National Parks are truly symbolic of America and our national life…The grandeurs and intimacies of Nature as presented here will, I hope, encourage the spectator to seek for himself the inexhaustible sources of beauty in the natural world.”--Ansel Adams

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Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, 1942.

“I have been concerned with conservation matters for years, but I find most conservation literature insufferably dull…Something has to be done to interest the average citizen.--Ansel Adams

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Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, 1947.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. --Ansel Adams

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Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1995.

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Mel Chin, Revival Field, Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990-1993.

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Mel Chin, Revival Field, Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990-1993.

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Mel Chin, Revival Field, Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990-1993.

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Mel Chin, Revival Field, Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990-1993.

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Mel Chin, Revival Field, Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990-1993.

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Mel Chin, Revival Field, Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990-1993.