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