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DQ 12_Modern to Contemporary Art

DQ 12_Modern to Contemporary Art

Q Place the work of one of the following artists in the context it emerged from. Sherrie Levine, Carrie Mae Weems, Richard Prince, or Nan Goldin What was going on historically and culturally in the time and place the work was made? How would this have personally affected the artist and his/her work? Choose one work by the artist you chose to support your arguments.

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For this discussion, I chose Sherrie Levine who is an artist of postmodernism and believes nothing is unique but rather an idea inspired by some other people’s work. She critiques the core ideas of modernism and questions the role of the romantic, artist-genius. She asks her viewers the question that why they trust values in art like originality. Her work is collaboration with previous artists. She is also a feminist critique against the patriarchy of art history and as well as society in larger terms.