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1. The Abstract Expressionists were concerned with the "inner world," where the struggle with __________ became the god of painting.
2. The leading Abstract Expressionist was __________.
3. Raised in the American southwest, Pollock was influenced by __________.
4. With Pollock, we are shown that _________ has nothing to do with value in art.
5. Mark Rothko chose a path to pure expression by using only __________ on his canvases.
6. Which American artist of the twentieth-century insisted that the surface of the canvas is not a window we look through, but rather a field onto which "junk" is piled?
7. When did Pop Art come of age?
8. In his art, Andy Warhol concentrated on the repetition of identical objects that are __________, as well as the repetition of people, especially movie stars.
9. Initially, Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C., invoked protest because it was considered __________.
10. Robert Smithson's pivotal earth work is the __________ in Utah's Great Salt Lake.
11. Where did Christo mount his work Running Fence?
12. __________ artists want to break through the condition of having someone else speak for them.
13. In a society saturated with data, the function of today's artist is not to depict events, but rather to reawaken our __________.
14. There is no such thing as __________ history of art, there are only our interpretations.