Ashley’s Reviews > Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II, 14e (with 2-Semester Instant Access Code): The Western Perspective, Volume II > Status Update

David Wojnarowicz, gay activist during AIDS: When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body… I see the flesh unwrap from the layers of fat and disappear… I see the organs gradually fade into transparency… It makes me weep to feel the history of you of your flesh beneath my hands

Cuban-born Ana Mendieta: I believe this has been a direct result of my having been torn from my homeland during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that unite me to the universe. It is a return to the maternal source. Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth

Andy Warhol: What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers by essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the president drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke.

Painting (1946) by Francis Bacon depicts the aftermath of WWII and is “unmistakably an attempt to remake the violence of reality itself” with what appears to be a carnivorous, presented as a political official, hovers amongst strewn carnage of meat

Paul Klee: Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible… the formal elements of graphic art are dot, line, plane, and space—the last three charged with energy of various kinds… Formally we used to represent things visible on Earth, things we either light to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things.