Pictures Generation

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Pictures Generation is a late-1970s and 1980s American art movement associated with appropriation and critical re-use of mass-media imagery to question authorship, originality, and representation.

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Label Occurrences
Pictures Generation canonical 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American art movement
art movement
artForm installation art
painting
photography
text-based art
associatedCity New York City NERFINISHED
centralTheme consumer culture
cultural codes
gender representation
image circulation
media critique
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
exhibitedIn Artists Space NERFINISHED
Metro Pictures Gallery NERFINISHED
genre contemporary art
hasCharacteristic appropriation of existing images
critical re-use of mass-media imagery
questioning of authorship
questioning of originality
questioning of representation
hasNotableArtist Barbara Bloom NERFINISHED
Barbara Kruger NERFINISHED
Cindy Sherman NERFINISHED
David Salle NERFINISHED
Eric Fischl NERFINISHED
Jack Goldstein NERFINISHED
James Welling NERFINISHED
Jenny Holzer NERFINISHED
John Baldessari NERFINISHED
Laurie Simmons NERFINISHED
Louise Lawler NERFINISHED
Matt Mullican NERFINISHED
Michael Zwack NERFINISHED
Richard Prince NERFINISHED
Robert Longo NERFINISHED
Sarah Charlesworth NERFINISHED
Sherrie Levine NERFINISHED
Troy Brauntuch NERFINISHED
influencedBy advertising
film
mass media
television
movementPeriod 1980s
late 1970s
relatedConcept appropriation art
conceptual art
critical theory
postmodernism

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Sherrie Levine movement Pictures Generation
Annina Nosei Gallery movement Pictures Generation