VISA 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Martha Rosler, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman
Document Summary
Head of a bull (1942) - pablo picasso. The essential characteristic of any sign is to be what other signs are not. Untitled film still 21 (1978) - cindy sherman. Bringing the war home (196701972 - martha rosler) Semiotics of the kitchen (1975) - martha rosler. The bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974-75) - martha rosler. Things seen on the street paired with words. Picture for women (1979) - jeff wall. Trying to evoke an elusive nature of the image. Reference to pop culture and/or historical culture and images. You have searched and destroyed (1981) - barbara kruger. Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting - barnett newman. Sculpture in the expanded field (1979) - rossalind krauss. Sculpture is what was what is on ir in front of a building that was not the building.
