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1 HISTOI RE DES ARTS

2 The questions to ask Title ? Artist ? Year ? Type ? Goal ?

3 Architectu re and Sculpture

4 Jetty Spiral By Robert Smithso n 19 70 An earthwork sculpture in Utah, on the shore of the Great Salt Lake, made of mud, salt crystals, rocks and water. It is 460m long and 4.6 m wide It shows the effects of draught, since you can see it only during these periods.

5 Willis Tower Glass Balconies By the Willis Group 20 09 Retractable glass balconies, which can be extended approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) from the facade of the 103rd floor It opens the offices to the outside, and shows how the building swings during windy days

6 Israeli- palestinian Wall Banksy 20 05 A graffiti on the separation barrier built by Israel along the 1949 Armistice Line He tries to show the nonsense of war and wants to make people realize there are not only enemies behind the wall

7 Dirty White Trash Tim Noble and Sue Wester 19 98 A shadow sculpture, sculpted out of six months' worth of the artists' rubbish It’s a confluence of beauty and filth. It shows what it takes to make a piece of art. « White Trash » refers to the poor American white population too.

8 Supermarket Lady / Caddie Duane Hanson 19 69 A full-size sculpture of an American housewife with her caddie in a supermarket He’s showing a rather unflattering picture of the US housewife at the end of 1960’s and the mediocrity of the consumerist American Way of Life.

9 Reichstag Dome Norman Foster 19 93 A shadow sculpture, sculpted out of six months' worth of the artists' rubbish It shows the transparency of the German politics after the reunification, and the willing to be part of a green architecture

10 Brillo Boxes Andy Warhol 19 64 Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes are precise copies of commercial packaging. It shows that, as Warhol says, art should imitate life but where does it stop? It raises the question of mass-produced goods and mass consumerism.


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