This month’s post is another artist highlight, about the incredible performance artist, philosopher, conceptual artist, and photographer Adrian Piper! Her work, which poignantly addresses themes of gender, otherness, race, ostracism, and self-analysis, has greatly impacted Post-Modern, Feminist, and Conceptual art. Her genre-defying, multifaceted, revolutionary work spans various disciplines and media, and her ongoing career has lasted six decades. Born in…
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Cultural Appropriation in Modern Art
One of the classes I’m taking this semester is about art since around 1900, from Post-Impressionism to Contemporary Art. As a class at the University of Toronto or any traditional institution, the class is taught from a very Eurocentric point of view. However, many European artworks from this time were starting to gain influences from other parts of the world.…
