Chapter Summary

After reading Chapter 29, you should be able to:

• Identify the works and define the terms in the chapter.

• Discuss the controversy over U.S. government funding of the arts.

• Describe the historical precedents of the works in the chapter.

• Discuss some of the new techniques and media in the second half of the 20th century.

• Compare performance and video art with Dada.

• Discuss the return to realism.

• Compare the architecture of the New York Guggenheim with the Whitney Museum.

• Discuss new trends in architecture.

• Discuss what is meant by "Post-Modern."

• Compare the Louvre Pyramid with the Giza Pyramids.

• Discuss the changing relationship of exterior to interior in architecture.

• Discuss and compare the environmental artists, Smithson, Holt, and the Christos.

• Discuss the iconography of works in the chapter dealing with the urban environment.

• Discuss the emergence of feminist art.

• Discuss the implications of the poll conducted by Komar and Melamid.