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Course: Modernisms 1900-1980 > Unit 12
Lesson 1: Conceptual art- Conceptual Art: An Introduction
- Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs
- Martha Rosler, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems
- Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen
- The Case for Yoko Ono
- Vito Acconci, Following Piece
- John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
- John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
- Hans Haacke: "A Breed Apart" in South Africa
- Hans Haacke, Seurat's 'Les Poseuses' (small version)
- Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii
- Preserving Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway
- Jannis Kounellis, "Da inventare sul posto (To invent on the spot)"
- Juan Downey: Plato Now
- Cildo Meireles
- Eleanor Antin, Carving: A Traditional Sculpture
- Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths
- Mónica Mayer, The Clothesline
- Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document
- Yayoi Kusama
- How to paint like Yayoi Kusama
- Yayoi Kusama, Narcissus Garden
- Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin
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Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin
Yayoi Kusama’s “Pumpkin” (2016) is an 8-foot tall sculpture and installation at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Covered in the artist’s signature polka-dot effect, it embodies Kusama’s lifelong fascination with pumpkins and her investigation into themes of nature, fantasy, life and death. Join Melissa Chiu, Museum Director at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, to explore what makes “Pumpkin” a masterpiece. Video by Bank of America. Created by Smarthistory.
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