13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a

BlackbirdMcEvilley, Thomas, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, Art & Discontent:Theory at the Millennium. McPherson & Company. 1993.  

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Jan Willem Pieneman, The Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815, oil on canvas, 576 cm x 836 cm, 1824

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Genre

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Paul Cezanne

Mary Heilmann

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MATERIALS

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Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst

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Jim Denevan

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CONTEXT

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Relationship w/ Art history

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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907 Lege African Mask, Congo

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    Progressively reveals its   destiny through persisting in time.

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    Progressively reveals its   destiny through persisting in time.

Leonardo da Vinci, 1503-19 Marcel Duchamp, 1919

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The Ascension of Christ ,Salvador Dalí, Oil on canvas / 115 × 123 cm, 1958

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The Ascension of Christ ,Salvador Dalí, Oil on canvas / 115 × 123 cm, 1958

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Untitled Number 5, Agnes Martin, synthetic polymer paint on gesso on canvas, 71” x 6’, 1975Woman, I, Willem de Kooning, Oil on canvas, 6’ 

x 58”, 1950-52

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Parody/irony of content categories

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Leif Parsons

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Leif Parsons

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Myra, Marcus Harvey, 9’x 11’, 1995

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Myra, Marcus Harvey, 9’x 11’, 1995

“Far from cynically exploiting her notoriety, Harvey's grave and monumental canvas succeeds in conveying the enormity of the crime she committed. Seen from afar, through several doorways, Hindley's face looms at us like an apparition. By the time we get close enough to realise that it is spattered with children's handprints, the sense of menace becomes overwhelming.”Cork, Richard (16 September 1997), "The Establishment clubbed", The Times, retrieved 30 September 2009

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