Syllabus: Modern Art
HA231: Modern art
The focus of this course is on the modern art of Europe and the United States, but we won't ignore the rest of the world.
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Key questions and terms
• Why do people study art history?
• How has the definition of art changed through time.
• How has the discipline of art history changed?
• What art gets remembered? What is forgotten?
• How can art help us empathize with people from other times and places?
civilization
Western art and culture
classical antiquity
visual analysis
academic art
canon
Royal academy
Ism
Qing Dynasty
Pantheon
Secularized
Lost Cause
Purdah
Shanghai School
Academicians
Foreshortened
Neoclassical
Foucault’s Pendulum
kunqu
Key questions and terms
• How can describing what you see in words help you interpret a work of art?
• How can spending time with a work of art impact how you see it?
• How can formal issues such as pictorial space help us to interpret a work of art?
• How can you use iconography to read a work of art?
• What is the difference between form and subject?
Genre
Subject matter
Historical context
Formal analysis
Iconography
Curvilinear
Patron
Romanticism
Sublime
Phrygian Cap
Revolution of 1830
Antebellum
Tricolor
Quaker
Daguerreotype
Key questions and terms
• What is the distinction between naturalism and Realism?
• How was photography used as a tool of subjugation?
• How did the PRB challenge academic standards?
• What are some of the reasons Manet may have minimized chiaroscuro?
natural history
Coup
camera obscura
Bitumen
Heliograph
Inscribe
Narrative
lithograph
Cyanotype
Picturesque
John Ruskin
Salon juries
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Courtesan
Napoleon III
bourgeois
Key questions and terms
• How did the meaning of nature and the countryside change in the 19th century?
• What new systems of representation did artists develop to represent the modern city?
• Urban life afforded new freedoms, but also restrictions. How were these conveyed by artists?
• Are there parallels with how the city and country were portrayed in the 19th century and your ideas of these places?
Pont de l’Europe
Boulevard
En plein air
optical realism
Franco-Prussian War
Japonisme
Navvies
White ground
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Six-footer
Industrial Revolution
Bohío
Jíbaros
Past and Present
Commissioners’ Plan
linear perspective
Subjectivity
asymmetry
contour
Key questions and terms
• Should contemporary museums be responsible for moral wrongs perpetrated in the past?
• What is the responsibility of museums to the cultures that created works in their collection?
• How did colonialism, increased global trade, and technological developments impact traditions in art making?
• What is the value of the universal museum and how can these responsibly adapt?
• Should we seek to recognize connections between works of unrelated cultures of the same century?
Oba
Punitive Expedition
Social Darwinism
Aotearoa
Ariki
Moko
Pashm
Ukiyo-e
Tongva
Mendicant
Porteuses
Arcadian
Abolitionist
Ojibwa
Ideal
Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
Orientalism
Secession
Key questions and terms
• Art often depicts the external world, what might prompt an artist to look inward instead?
• How is Post-Impressionism different from Impressionism?
• What makes Van Gogh’s Irises different from the work he had done in Paris?
• How does Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire reimagine the representation of space?
• How did Klimt translate musical forms into visual forms?
art for art’s sake
Pont-Aven
British East India Company
Paris Commune
Dante
Wiener Werkstätte
atmospheric perspective
tallit
Kittel
Nocturne
Oeuvre
Brittany
Étude
complementary contrast
Provençal
Symbolism
Dante’s Inferno
Les Vingt
Gesamtkunstwerk
Gorgon
Key questions and terms
• What is the relationship between Kandinsky’s work and music?
• If Synthetic Cubism is not meant to be read as a puzzle, how is it intended to be read?
• What social and political circumstances inform Höch’s, Cut with the Kitchen Knife…?
• How does Duchamp use both intention and chance in his art?
• How was Suprematism’s formal simplicity seen to further the aims of the Russian Revolution?
abstraction/abstract
Pictorialism
chiaroscuro
steerage
simultaneity
reserve line
figure ground
oil cloth
Synthetic Cubism
291
utopia
Russian Revolution
New Woman
Dada
Neo-Plasticism
Iberian
avant-garde
Analytic Cubism
Simultaneity
Intelligentsia
Cannibalist Manifesto
Collage
Weimar Republic
Readymade
Key questions and terms
• How did the pictograph further the aims of Torres-García?
• What was the role of art and architecture in National Socialist ideology?
• Why was Man Controller of the Universe re-envisioned, retitled, and repainted?
• How does Kahlo go beyond likeness in her self-representation?
• How can we, in the 21st century, responsibly explore the Fascist murals and architecture in Rome? Can we appreciate the artistry but deplore the politics? What do these issues imply about the relationship between art and meaning?
Circle and Square
pictogram
Fascism and fasci
manifesto
archaize
propaganda
House of German Art
Entartete Kunst
Blut und Boden
The New Negro
Opium Wars
Sino-Japanese War
Surrealism
Apocalyptic
Polio
Constructive Universalism
Constructivist
Jadeite
composite photography
Lost Cause
Middle Passage
Jim Crow
Key questions and terms
• What are some of the formal issues that Hepworth’s sculpture addresses?
• How do Ralph Ellison’s texts and Gordon Parks’ images interact in Off on My Own?
• What are some of the ways we might find meaning in Mitchell’s work?
• What are some of the innovations found in the work of Sari Dienes and Hedda Sterne? Why are they less well known than Jackson Pollock?
• How is Skunder Boghossian’s, Night Flight of Dread and Delight relevant to his aspiration for post-colonial Africa?
Cornwall
Pelagos
Invisible Man
Harlem Renaissance
Holocaust
Cold War
Masonite
Bonwit Teller
Constructivist
Betty Parsons Gallery
Black Mountain College
internment camp
Neoconcrete
Biomorphic
Afrofuturism
Social Realism
Capitalist Realism
Key questions and terms
• What is cultural heritage?
• Should art historians privilege one historical aspect of a work of art or architecture if it has changed over time?
• Does the story behind the painting Portrait of Wally change the way you view it, in what ways?
• Can the act of erasing art itself be art?
• What is NAGPRA?
couplet
Shahnama
the Belvedere, Vienna
kunstschutz
shtetl
bema
SPQR
Volto Santo
nihilism
Baths of Caracalla
preservation
performance art
Rapa Nui
effigies
Pueblo
kiva
Sipapu
NAGPRA
Ganesha
Ravana
samsara
Key questions and terms
• Can architecture be emotionally expressive in the ways that other arts can?
• How has the meaning of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus changed in the post-colonial era?
• How is the motto of the Secession expressed through Olbrich’s architectural choices?
• What challenges did Sullivan face on the Bleecker Street lot?
• Why was the International Style successful in so many locations?
Elizabethan
Neo Gothic
gesamtkunstwerk
voyeur
polychrome
Mughal
midway
peristyle
Secession
gorgon
Jugendstil
terracotta
cornice
colonnette
pilotis
ribbon windows
mullion
![Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola [3], 1962, casein on canvas, 176.2 x 137.2 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts)](data:image/svg+xml;nitro-empty-id=MzE0MTo2MzI=-1;base64,PHN2ZyB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMzAwIDE4MCIgd2lkdGg9IjMwMCIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxODAiIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyI+PC9zdmc+)
Key questions and terms
• Why was Pop Art seen as radical given that it was focused on common subjects?
• How does Nuit de Noël express the changes in Malian society?
• What is conceptual art and how does Kosuth’s work embody the art type?
• What did it mean when Carl Andre stated, “
• Why did Alma Thomas reference both the moon and a garden in her painting title?
Afro-Cuban
Blue Marble
Zapruder film
automatic drawing
Semiotics
Venice Biennale
Primary Structures
Minimalism
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Great Leap Forward
four olds
Black Arts Movement
Harlem Renaissance
figuration
Spiral
Washington Color School
Pop Art
Photostat
conceptual art
Performance art
Key questions and terms
• How is the issue of self determination expressed in the work of this unit?
• How have artists used art as political expression?
• How have artists covered in this unit transformed traditional forms of art to address issues of their own era?
• What are the ways Roger Shimomura references Pop Art, and is Diary Pop Art?
Yorùbá
Déjì
talismanic
bohío
Xhosa
apartheid
Sikh
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
uli
Khartoum School
Nubian
kabaka
Kufi
Impasto
expatriate
lexical
expatriate
coup d’état
SWANA
Minidoka internment camp
Marilyn Diptych 1962 Andy Warhol 1928-1987 (Tate)
- 1.Why you don’t like art history
- 2.What is art history and where is it going?
- 3.Must art be beautiful?
- 4.Art and empathy
- 5.Ren Xiong, Self-Portrait
- 6.Guerrilla Girls, ‘You Have to Question What You See’ (interview)
- 7.Omar Victor Diop: Black subjects in the frame
- 8.Painting in Mithila, an introduction
- 9.Kehinde Wiley, Rumors of War
- 10.The Formation of a French School: the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
- 11.Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
- 12.Jacques-Germain Soufflot, The Panthéon (Church of Ste-Geneviève), Paris
Key questions and terms
• Why do people study art history?
• How has the definition of art changed through time.
• How has the discipline of art history changed?
• What art gets remembered? What is forgotten?
• How can art help us empathize with people from other times and places?
civilization
Western art and culture
classical antiquity
visual analysis
academic art
canon
Royal academy
Ism
Qing Dynasty
Pantheon
Secularized
Lost Cause
Purdah
Shanghai School
Academicians
Foreshortened
Neoclassical
Foucault’s Pendulum
kunqu
Giovanni Bellini, Madonna of the Meadow, c. 1500
- 1.How to do visual (formal) analysis
- 2.Introduction to art historical analysis
- 3.Art historical analysis with Goya’s Third of May, 1808
- 4.An introduction to iconography and iconographic analysis
- 5.Describing what you see: Sculpture, Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure
- 6.A beginners guide to Romanticism
- 7.Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea
- 8.J.M.W. Turner, Snowstorm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps
- 9.Théodore Géricault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818–19
- 10.Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (July 28, 1830)
- 11.The Radical Floriography of Sarah Mapps Douglass, 1836–37
- 12.José María Velasco, The Valley of Mexico from the Santa Isabel Mountain Range, 1875
Key questions and terms
• How can describing what you see in words help you interpret a work of art?
• How can spending time with a work of art impact how you see it?
• How can formal issues such as pictorial space help us to interpret a work of art?
• How can you use iconography to read a work of art?
• What is the difference between form and subject?
Genre
Subject matter
Historical context
Formal analysis
Iconography
Curvilinear
Patron
Romanticism
Sublime
Phrygian Cap
Revolution of 1830
Antebellum
Tricolor
Quaker
Daguerreotype
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Le Gras, c. 1826–27, heliograph on pewter, 6.57 x 8 inches (Harry Ransom Center, Austin)
- 1.Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Le Gras, 1826–27
- 2.Anna Atkins, Dictyota atomaria, from Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, c. 1853
- 3.Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1867
- 4.Photography in 19th-century India
- 5.Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation
- 6 .Photographic postcards of West African masquerade
- 7.A beginner’s guide to the Pre-Raphaelites
- 8.Sir John Everett Millais, Isabella, 1849
- 9.Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England
- 10.Daumier, Rue Transnonain
- 11.Gustave Courbet, The Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My Life as an Artist, 1854-55
- 12.Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
Key questions and terms
• What is the distinction between naturalism and Realism?
• How was photography used as a tool of subjugation?
• How did the PRB challenge academic standards?
• What are some of the reasons Manet may have minimized chiaroscuro?
natural history
Coup
camera obscura
Bitumen
Heliograph
Inscribe
Narrative
lithograph
Cyanotype
Picturesque
John Ruskin
Salon juries
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Courtesan
Napoleon III
bourgeois
John Constable, The Hay Wain (Landscape: Noon), 1821, oil on canvas, 130.2 x 185.4 cm (The National Gallery, London)
- 1.John Constable, The Hay Wain (Landscape: Noon), 1821
- 2.Rosa Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais (or The First Dressing), 1849
- 3.Francisco Oller y Cestero, The Wake
- 4.Ford Madox Brown, Work, 1852–65
- 5.Emily Mary Osborn, Nameless and Friendless, 1857
- 6.Seneca Village, 1825–53, just east of Central Park West between 81st and 89th Streets, Manhattan
- 7.Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise
- 8.How to recognize Monet: The Basin at Argenteuil
- 9.A summer day in Paris: Berthe Morisot’s Hunting Butterflies
- 10.Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette, 1876
- 11.Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
- 12.Mary Cassatt, In the Loge, 1878
Key questions and terms
• How did the meaning of nature and the countryside change in the 19th century?
• What new systems of representation did artists develop to represent the modern city?
• Urban life afforded new freedoms, but also restrictions. How were these conveyed by artists?
• Are there parallels with how the city and country were portrayed in the 19th century and your ideas of these places?
Pont de l’Europe
Boulevard
En plein air
optical realism
Franco-Prussian War
Japonisme
Navvies
White ground
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Six-footer
Industrial Revolution
Bohío
Jíbaros
Past and Present
Commissioners’ Plan
linear perspective
Subjectivity
asymmetry
contour
Artist Unidentified, Relief plaque (Portuguese soldier, detail), c. 16th–17th century, copper alloy, from Benin City, Edo Kingdom, Nigeria, 47 x 31 x 9 cm (© Trustees of the British Museum)
- 1.The Benin “Bronzes”: a story of violence, theft, and artistry
- 2.The Reception of African Art in the West
- 3.The Whale Rider
- 4.Gottfried Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene
- 5.Cashmere shawls
- 6.Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
- 7.Ferdinand Deppe, The Mission of San Gabriel, Alta California in May 1832
- 8.Gauguin and Laval in Martinique
- 9.A dream of Italy: Black artists and travel in the nineteenth century
- 10.Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free, 1867
- 11.Museums and politics: the Louvre, Paris
- 12.Assyrian Lamassus in Victorian Britain
Key questions and terms
• Should contemporary museums be responsible for moral wrongs perpetrated in the past?
• What is the responsibility of museums to the cultures that created works in their collection?
• How did colonialism, increased global trade, and technological developments impact traditions in art making?
• What is the value of the universal museum and how can these responsibly adapt?
• Should we seek to recognize connections between works of unrelated cultures of the same century?
Oba
Punitive Expedition
Social Darwinism
Aotearoa
Ariki
Moko
Pashm
Ukiyo-e
Tongva
Mendicant
Porteuses
Arcadian
Abolitionist
Ojibwa
Ideal
Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
Orientalism
Secession
Maurycy Gottlieb, Christ Teaching at Capernaum, 1878–79, 209 x 271.5 cm (National Museum, Warsaw)
- 1.Maurycy Gottlieb, Christ Teaching at Capernaum
- 2.James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, 1875
- 3.Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte – 1884
- 4.Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables), 1888
- 5.Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1889
- 6.Gustave Moreau, Jupiter and Semele, 1894–95
- 7.Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell
, 1880-1917 - 8.Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902-04
- 9.James Ensor, The Intrigue, 1980
- 10.Broncia Koller, Sitting (Seated Nude Marietta), 1907
- 11.Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze, 1902
- 12.The Wiener Werkstätte, begun 1897
Key questions and terms
• Art often depicts the external world, what might prompt an artist to look inward instead?
• How is Post-Impressionism different from Impressionism?
• What makes Van Gogh’s Irises different from the work he had done in Paris?
• How does Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire reimagine the representation of space?
• How did Klimt translate musical forms into visual forms?
art for art’s sake
Pont-Aven
British East India Company
Paris Commune
Dante
Wiener Werkstätte
atmospheric perspective
tallit
Kittel
Nocturne
Oeuvre
Brittany
Étude
complementary contrast
Provençal
Symbolism
Dante’s Inferno
Les Vingt
Gesamtkunstwerk
Gorgon
Raoul Hausmann, Spirit of the Age: Mechanical Head, 1919, wooden mannequin head with attached objects, 32.5 x 21 x 20 cm (Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris)
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, oil on canvas, 243.9 x 233.7 cm (The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- 1.Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
- 2.Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911
- 3.Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912
- 4.Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1916
- 5.Umberto Boccioni and the Futurist City
- 6.Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White, 1918
- 7.Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919
- 8.Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage
- 9.Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-23
- 10.Georgia O’Keeffe, Radiator Building—Night, New York
- 11.Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporú, 1928
- 12.Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
Key questions and terms
• What is the relationship between Kandinsky’s work and music?
• If Synthetic Cubism is not meant to be read as a puzzle, how is it intended to be read?
• What social and political circumstances inform Höch’s, Cut with the Kitchen Knife…?
• How does Duchamp use both intention and chance in his art?
• How was Suprematism’s formal simplicity seen to further the aims of the Russian Revolution?
abstraction/abstract
Pictorialism
chiaroscuro
steerage
simultaneity
reserve line
figure ground
oil cloth
Synthetic Cubism
291
utopia
Russian Revolution
New Woman
Dada
Neo-Plasticism
Iberian
avant-garde
Analytic Cubism
Simultaneity
Intelligentsia
Cannibalist Manifesto
Collage
Weimar Republic
Readymade
Joaquín Torres-García, Composition, 1931, oil on canvas, 91.7 x 61 cm (The Museum of Modern Art) © estate of the artist
- 1.Torres-García, Composition, 1931
- 2.Varvara Stepanova, The Results of the First Five-Year Plan
- 3.Murals and Public Art in 1930s Rome
- 4.Paul Troost, House of German Art, Munich, 1933-37
- 5.Adolf Ziegler, The Four Elements: Fire, Water and Earth, Air
- 6.George Grosz, Remembering, 1937
- 7.Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe (or Man in the Time Machine), 1934
- 8.Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas), 1939
- 9.Lang Jingshan 郎静山, Spring Trees and Majestic Peaks 春樹奇峰, c. 1934
- 10.The Long History of Stone Mountain, Georgia
- 11.Aaron Douglas, Aspiration, 1936
- 12.Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936
Key questions and terms
• How did the pictograph further the aims of Torres-García?
• What was the role of art and architecture in National Socialist ideology?
• Why was Man Controller of the Universe re-envisioned, retitled, and repainted?
• How does Kahlo go beyond likeness in her self-representation?
• How can we, in the 21st century, responsibly explore the Fascist murals and architecture in Rome? Can we appreciate the artistry but deplore the politics? What do these issues imply about the relationship between art and meaning?
Circle and Square
pictogram
Fascism and fasci
manifesto
archaize
propaganda
House of German Art
Entartete Kunst
Blut und Boden
The New Negro
Opium Wars
Sino-Japanese War
Surrealism
Apocalyptic
Polio
Constructive Universalism
Constructivist
Jadeite
composite photography
Lost Cause
Middle Passage
Jim Crow
Dame Barbara Hepworth, Pelagos, 1946, elm and string on oak base, 43 x 46 x 38.5 cm (Tate Britain)
- 1.Dame Barbara Hepworth, Pelagos, 1946,
- 2.Gordon Parks, Off on My Own (Harlem, New York), 1948
- 3.Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950
- 4.Sari Dienes, Star Circle, 1953–59 (assembled as late as 1959)
- 5.Joan Mitchell, City Landscape, 1955
- 6.Hedda Sterne, Number 3–1957, 1957
- 7.Ruth Asawa, Untitled
- 8.Rafael Tufiño, La Plena, 1952–54
- 9.Alberto Giacometti, Walking Man II
- 10.Lygia Clark, Bicho (Critter), 1962
- 11.Skunder (Alexander) Boghossian, Night Flight of Dread and Delight, 1964
- 12.Gerhard Richter, Uncle Rudi, 1965
Key questions and terms
• What are some of the formal issues that Hepworth’s sculpture addresses?
• How do Ralph Ellison’s texts and Gordon Parks’ images interact in Off on My Own?
• What are some of the ways we might find meaning in Mitchell’s work?
• What are some of the innovations found in the work of Sari Dienes and Hedda Sterne? Why are they less well known than Jackson Pollock?
• How is Skunder Boghossian’s, Night Flight of Dread and Delight relevant to his aspiration for post-colonial Africa?
Cornwall
Pelagos
Invisible Man
Harlem Renaissance
Holocaust
Cold War
Masonite
Bonwit Teller
Constructivist
Betty Parsons Gallery
Black Mountain College
internment camp
Neoconcrete
Biomorphic
Afrofuturism
Social Realism
Capitalist Realism
Planet of the Apes, 1968, Franklin Schaffner director, starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, and Kim Hunter (20th Century Fox)
- 1.Blow it up: cultural heritage and film
- 2.Making and Mutilating Manuscripts of the Shahnama
- 3.Fact and fiction: Reims Cathedral during World War I
- 4.Egon Schiele, Portrait of Wally Neuzil, 1912
- 5.The Gwoździec synagogue: the lost art of painted wooden synagogues
- 6.Erasing Art: Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning drawing
- 7.Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995 (printed 2017)
- 8.Submerged, burned, and scattered: celebrating the destruction of objects in South Asia
- 9.A Renaissance masterpiece nearly lost in war: Piero della Francesca, The Resurrection
- 10.A Landmark Decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC
- 11.Moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Waka Tapu, and the reclaiming of cultural heritage
- 12.Mesa Verde and the preservation of Ancestral Puebloan heritage
Key questions and terms
• What is cultural heritage?
• Should art historians privilege one historical aspect of a work of art or architecture if it has changed over time?
• Does the story behind the painting Portrait of Wally change the way you view it, in what ways?
• Can the act of erasing art itself be art?
• What is NAGPRA?
couplet
Shahnama
the Belvedere, Vienna
kunstschutz
shtetl
bema
SPQR
Volto Santo
nihilism
Baths of Caracalla
preservation
performance art
Rapa Nui
effigies
Pueblo
kiva
Sipapu
NAGPRA
Ganesha
Ravana
samsara
Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin, Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben), Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), 1840–70, London (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
- 1.Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin, Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
- 2.Charles Garnier, The Paris Opéra
- 3.Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, 1929
- 4.F.W. Stevens with Sitaram Khanderao and Madherao Janardhan, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, 1878
- 5.Louis Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
- 6.Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
- 7.Anni Albers curtains, Rockefeller Guest House, 1944
- 8.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, 1956–58
- 9.Josef Maria Olbrich, Secession Building, Vienna 1897–98
- 10.Otto Wagner, Postal Savings Bank
- 11.The White City of Tel Aviv
- 12.International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
Key questions and terms
• Can architecture be emotionally expressive in the ways that other arts can?
• How has the meaning of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus changed in the post-colonial era?
• How is the motto of the Secession expressed through Olbrich’s architectural choices?
• What challenges did Sullivan face on the Bleecker Street lot?
• Why was the International Style successful in so many locations?
Elizabethan
Neo Gothic
gesamtkunstwerk
voyeur
polychrome
Mughal
midway
peristyle
Secession
gorgon
Jugendstil
terracotta
cornice
colonnette
pilotis
ribbon windows
mullion
Richard Hamilton, Just What is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, so Appealing?, 1956, collage, 26 cm × 24.8 cm (Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen)
- 1.Richard Hamilton, Just What is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, so Appealing?, 1956
- 2.Garry Winogrand, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, 1960
- 3.Warhol, Coca-Cola [3], 1962
- 4.Running in sneakers, the Judson Dance Theater
- 5.Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs
- 6.Marisol Escobar, The Party, 1965-66
- 7.Carl Andre, Lever
- 8.Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians, 1967
- 9.Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers, 1969
- 10.Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Happy Couple), 1963
- 11.Yayoi Kusama, Narcissus Garden, 1966
- 12.Liu Chunhua, Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan
Key questions and terms
• Why was Pop Art seen as radical given that it was focused on common subjects?
• How does Nuit de Noël express the changes in Malian society?
• What is conceptual art and how does Kosuth’s work embody the art type?
• What did it mean when Carl Andre stated, “
• Why did Alma Thomas reference both the moon and a garden in her painting title?
Afro-Cuban
Blue Marble
Zapruder film
automatic drawing
Semiotics
Venice Biennale
Primary Structures
Minimalism
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Great Leap Forward
four olds
Black Arts Movement
Harlem Renaissance
figuration
Spiral
Washington Color School
Pop Art
Photostat
conceptual art
Performance art
Ceremonial robe (agbádá ìlèkè), late 19th–early 20th centuries, unrecorded Yorùbá artists; Akúré, Ondo region, Nigeria, velvet, cotton, glass beads, 50 x 104 ½ inches (Newark Museum of Art)
- 1.Ceremonial robe (agbádá ìlèkè), Yoruba artist
- 2.Amazigh Kabyle brooches (fibulae)
- 3.Ramón Frade, Our Daily Bread
- 4.Beaded collar (ingqosha), Xhosa artist, South Africa
- 5.Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait as a Tahitian
- 6.Ibrahim El-Salahi, Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams
- 7.Mahmoud Hammad, Arabic Writing no. 11
- 8.Battle of Adwa
- 9.Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Le 30 juin 1960, Zaïre indépendant
- 10.Superman, World War II, and Japanese-American experience
- 11.Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo, Symmetrical Reduced Black Narrow-Necked Tall Piece
- 12.Olubugo (Barkcloth)
Key questions and terms
• How is the issue of self determination expressed in the work of this unit?
• How have artists used art as political expression?
• How have artists covered in this unit transformed traditional forms of art to address issues of their own era?
• What are the ways Roger Shimomura references Pop Art, and is Diary Pop Art?
Yorùbá
Déjì
talismanic
bohío
Xhosa
apartheid
Sikh
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
uli
Khartoum School
Nubian
kabaka
Kufi
Impasto
expatriate
lexical
expatriate
coup d’état
SWANA
Minidoka internment camp
