From the Modern to the Postmodern and Beyond

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Chapter 34

• From the Modern to the Postmodern and Beyond
• Art of the later 20th century

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Late 20th century

• WWII with global devastation set the stage of the
  second ½ of the 20th cent
• US Youth culture with protests of Vietnam,
  radical rejection of national policies-sexual
  revolution
• Counterculture
• Feminism
• Central issue is POWER-concern for dynamics of
  power
• Art world center shifts from Paris to NYC

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Modernism vs Postmodernism

• Clement Greenberg-very influential art critic
• CG redefined the parameters of modernism
• 1970s Postmodernism Cannot be defined as a
  style, instead a cultural phenomenon
• Something for everyone mix of many styles
• Art vs mass culture

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Francis Bacon, Painting, 1946, oil and pastel on
linen, 6 5 x 4 4 Fig 34-1
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Alberto Giacometti, Man Pointing, 1947, Bronze no
5 of 6, 5 10 x 3 1 x 1 5 Fig 34-3
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Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950, (Lavender Mist),
1950, oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas,
7 3 x 9 10 Fig 34-4
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Willem de Kooning, Woman 1, 1950-1952, oil on
canvas, 6 3 x 4 10 Fig 34-6
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Mark Rothko, No 14, 1960, oil on canvas, 9 6 x
8 9 Fig 34-8
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Ellsworth Kelly, Red Blue Green, 1963, oil on
canvas, 6 11 x 11 3 Fig 34-10
Frank Stella, Mas o Menos, 1964, Metallic powder
in acyrlic emulsion on canvas, 9 10 x 13 8
Fig 34-11
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Helen Frankenthaler, Bay Side, 1967, acrylic on
canvas, 6 2 x 6 9 Fig 34-12
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Louise Nevelson, Tropical Garden II, 1957-1959,
wood painted black, 5 11 x 10 11 Fig 34-17
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Joseph Beuys, How to explain pictures to a dead
hare, 1965, photo of performance art Fig 34-23
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Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by
Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall sign),
1967, neon with glass tubing, 4 11 x 4 7 Fig
34-26
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Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes
Todays Homes So Different, So Appealing? 1956,
collage, 10 x 9 Fig 34-27
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Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-1955, dated on reverse
1954, encaustic, oil and collage on fabric
mounted on plywood, 3 6 x 5 Fig 34-28
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Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959, oil, pencil,
paper, fabric, metal, cardboard box, printed
paper, printed reproductions, photographs, wood,
paint tube, mirror on canvas, oil on bald eagle,
string and pillow, 6 9 x 5 10 x 2 Fig 34-29
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Roy Lichtenstein, Hopeless, 1963, Oil on canvas,
3 8 x 3 8 Fig 34-30
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Andy Warhol, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962, oil
on canvas, 6 10 x 4 9 Fig 34-41
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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962, oil, acrylic
and silkscreen on canvas, each panel 6 8 x 4
9 Fig 34-32
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More Andy Warhol images
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Claes Oldenburg, photo of one person show at the
Green Gallery, NY, 1962, Fig 34-33
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Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen examples
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Audrey Flack, Marilyn, 1977, oil over acrylic on
canvas, 8 x 8 Fig 34-34
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Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait, 1967-1968,
acrylic on canvas, 8 11 x 6 11 x 2 Fig 34-35
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Duane Hanson, Supermarket Shopper, 1970,
polyester resin and fiberglass polychromed in oil
with clothing, steel cart and groceries, life
size, Fig 34-36
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, black rock,
salt crystals, earth, red water (algae) at Great
Salt Lake, Utah, 1500 x 15 3 6 Fig 34-37
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Christo Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands
1980-83, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida,
1980-1983, pink woven polypropylene fabric, 6
million sq feet, Fig 34-38
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum, NYC
1943-1959, Fig 34-40 34-41
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Le Corbousier, Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp,
France, 1950-1955, Fig 34-42
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Philip Johnson,
Seagram Building, Manhattan, NYC, 1956-1958, Fig
34-46
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Philip Johnson John Burgee with Simmons
Architects, associated architects, a model of the
ATT building, NYC, 1978-1984, Fig 34-49
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Richard Rogers Renzo Piano, Georges Pompidou
National Center of Art Culture (The
Beaubourg) Paris, France, 1977, Fig 34-52
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Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museo Bilbao, Bilbao,
Spain, Fig 34-54
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Julian Schnabel, The Walk Home, 1984-1985, oil,
plates, copper, bronze, fiberglass, bondo on
wood, 9 3 x 19 4 Fig 34-35
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979, Multimedia,
including ceramics stitchery, 48 along each
side of triangular installation Fig 34-59
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Dinner Party continued..
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Miriam Schapiro, Anatomy of a kimono (section)
1976, fabric and acrylic on canvas, 6 8 x 8 6
Fig 34-60
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still 35, 1979,
gelatin silverprint, 10x 8 Fig 34-61