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Across
  1. 2. Canadian artist who fused indigenous themes with a style inspired by Wassily Kandinsky to create something utterly unique in contemporary Canadian art
  2. 5. a major feminist artist who urged us to “beware fascist feminism”
  3. 7. artist whose appropriation work takes the form of a kind of “future archaeology”
  4. 11. the guy who erased the victims in photos of race-based lynchings
  5. 12. artist most closely associated with conceptual art, which he defined as tautological
  6. 13. artist who filled the Tate with thousands and thousands of artificial sunflower seeds
  7. 14. outspoken mimimalist who created really basic “primary structures”
  8. 15. Canadian film-projection artist who explored his own subjectivity, often by using himself as the model
Down
  1. 1. anonymous collective of feminist artists who comment on artworld bias and hypocrisy (2 words)
  2. 3. Maker of ambitious, large-scale video installations that involved fire and water and ambiguous soundtracks
  3. 4. trio of Canadian artists who appropriated a famous pop art image and converted it into a symbol of what was once called “the gay plague” (2 words)
  4. 6. guy who anticipated op art by making geometrical abstraction that is figuratively “eye-popping”
  5. 8. feminist whose work ranged from impenetrably boring videos demonstrating domestic utensils associate with “women’s work” to meditations on the President’s wife
  6. 9. pop art icon who copied millions of soup cans
  7. 10. artist who comments on social issues, including the hypocrisy of the art market, in graffiti art and clever stunts
  8. 15. painter who started out in abstract expressionism but ended up doing weird, cartoon like meditations on the KKK, etc.