Art and our quest for meaning

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Art and our quest for meaning
During the lecture or while reviewing the
selected websites, which art was the most
inspiring, moving, provocative, perplexing,
disturbing, or challenging?
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Joseph Beuys How to explain a picture to a dead
hare (1965).
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Lewis Hine young workers in Tampa cigar factory
1909
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Lewis Hine Social class contrast
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Kristin Harrison Uganda 2004
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The Global Movement for Children aims to create a
world where every child's right to dignity,
security and self-fulfilment is achieved.
Photograph by UNICEF Special Representative
Sebastião Salgado
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Sebastio Salgado Gold miners in Brazil, from his
book Workers, Aperture, 1994.
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Field workers haul the body of a man killed by
FARC guerrillas in southern Colombia. The
guerrillas accused him of collaborating with
right-wing militias.
Photo by Eros Hoagland - UC Berkeley Center for
Latin American Studies
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Sebastio Salgado Famine in the Sahel 1984-85.
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Anna Mendieta Earth Goddess
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Shirin Neshat Speechless, gelatin silver print,
1996.
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Shirin Neshat Untitled 1996 b/w RC print and
inkphoto Larry Burns
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Cindy Sherman Untitled, 2000.
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Offered Eyes 1993- b/w gelatin silver print with
inkCourtesy Barbara Gladstone
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Yasumasa Morimura. Portrait (Van Gogh), 1985
Photography, 120 x 100 cm.Courtesy of the artist
and the Gallery Luhring Augustine, NY
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Cindy Sherman - Studio
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Gavin Turk Bin Bag 3
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Consumption Barbara Kruger 1987. Photographic
silkscreen on vinyl, 111 x 113 inches. Courtesy
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
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There is architectural beauty and emphasis on the
characters standing on the porch. On an
idealistic level, there are many things at work
the gas pump, .. is a sign of modern
industrialism, strongly contrasted with the more
primitive wooden house and shabby bricks that
make up the post office of rural America. Notice,
too, how the Coca-cola sign is the center of the
image--this sign stands out more than the house,
or the people. It represents consumption--not of
an agricultural produce, but of a huge
corporation. The post office not only serves as a
gathering place for all members of the
community--black and white, but it is clearly a
government institution that has brought these
people together the sign says " U.S. Post
Office."
Walker Evans Sprott, Alabama1936.
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The concept is to approach each other from the
two ends of the Great Wall of China. He begins in
the Gobi Desert and I begin at the Yellow Sea we
meet halfway in between. We each walked 2000
kilometers to say good-bye. Duration 90 days.
Last meeting on June 3, 1988.
Abramovic, Marina Ulay, The Lovers The Great
Wall Walk, 1988
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• The lecture called for our collective
  responsibility not only to see and raise our
  level of awareness globally, but to be involved
  in the process of designing and building our
  local community.
• Question How does art help us, or you, to meet
  this challenge?