Contemporary Art
Diversion from Traditional 
Cultural Reformation
Voice of the Material
Change of Space
Betye Sarr - Black Girls window
Viewers become active role in Art, Objects begin to assert their presence gaining a sense of autonomy.
Postmoderism
Form and Material By Vilem Flusser The idea that concepts and forms are imposed on material though historical uses and context.
Senga Nengudi- RSVP series
Bli-zzard Ball Sale -David Hammons
Allan Kaprow
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Land Art
Sculpture in the Expanded Field- Rosalind Krauss
The line between art and architecture becomes ambiguous and amorphous
"The logic of the space of postmodernist practice is no longer organized around the definition of a given medium on the grounds of material, or, for that matter, the perception of material. It is organized instead though the universe of terms that are felt to be in opposition with a cultural situation." (Krauss p.43)
Minimalism/Art and Objecthood
Robert Morris
Tony Smith-Smoke
James Turrel
Black Arts movement
Carolee Schneemann- Interior Scroll
Directly manipulating film stock to create a film
Andy Goldsworthy -
Temporal Material
Fact of Blackness -Frantz Fanon
Chris Ofili The holy Virgin Mary
Melvin Edwards
Mary Miss Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys
Art and Objecthood - Michael Fried "One is more aware than before that he himself is establishing relationships as he apprehends the object from varying positions and under varying conditions of light and spatial context."
Performance - Diana Taylor - The idea that performance is a way of planting cultural seeds based on the idea that the most profound way humans gain knowledge is through mimesis.
Len Lye
"I came Into the world imbued with a will to find the meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects. - Fanon
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