Unit 12 Contemporary Art Looking Ahead Looking BackLooking
Unit 12 Contemporary Art: Looking Ahead/ Looking Back/Looking All Around
Guiding Question: ▶ How do contemporary artists relate the past, present, and future for today’s audiences?
Instructional Activity: Looking Back
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial http: //www. pbs. org/ar t 21/films/identity
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #228 http: //www. pbs. org/art 21/artists/cindysherman
Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion http: //www. sfmoma. org/explore/multimedi a/videos/224
Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard)
Wangechi Mutu, Preying Mantra
Instructional Activity: Looking Ahead
Xu Bing, A Book from the Sky
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation
Naum June Paik, Electronic Superhighway
https: //www. youtube. com/u ser/The. Louisiana. Channel? v =uenrts 2 YHd. I Bill Viola, The Crossing, 1996
Gehry, Guggenheim Museum
Zaha Hadid, Maxxi
Instructional Activity: Looking at Ourselves
Pepón Osorio, En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)
Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afr (Corned Beef 2000)
El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth
Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth
Instructional Activity: Looking at Ourselves As Others See Us
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Horn Players
Faith Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Trade https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=1 Bt. EJqvhosw
Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence
Formative Assessment: Student Research
Instructional Activity: Looking At and Reinterpreting Tradition
Song Su-nam, Summer Trees
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Androgyn III
Jeff Koons, Pink Panther
Mariko Mori, Pure Land
Kiki Smith, Lying with the Wolf
Instructional Activity: The Artist Speaks
Christo and Jean-Claude, The Gates https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=_b. ADf h_JLLo
Julie Mehretu, Stadia II https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=u 4 F 9 sc. Z 3 id. M
Ai Weiwei, Kui Hua. Zi (Sunflower Seeds) http: //www. tate. org. uk/whats-on/tatemodern/exhibition/unilever-series-ai-weiwei/video
Summative Assessment: New Takes on an Old Theme
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