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Art History Final 2012
Vassar College Art History 106 Final 2012
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/19/2012

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Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus

Benjamin West

 

1768

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The Death of General Wolfe

 

Benjamin West

 

1770

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Paul Revere

 

John Singleton Copley

 

1768

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Watson and the Shark

 

John Singleton Copley

 

1778

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A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch)

Thomas Cole

 

1839


-General Notes-

-Still new and raw land

-Landscape = seperate from old

-Hudson River school = American landscape

-Thomas Cole= Founder of school

--Painting Notes--

-Ominous Atmosphere = Rock Avalanche Story

-Uglyness of tree stumps and human removal of nature

-Scale swallows inhabitants

-Antagonism between human and natural worlds



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Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

 

Thomas Cole

 

1828

 

Notes:

-Landscapes not near scenic views

-Using time of day/year to make more expressive conception of nature 

-"Not just a leaf painter"

-Adam/Eve are TINY=would still make sense w/o them

-Upright to sharp jagged textures 

- Pleasing landscapes to terrifying things

Pair painting= strengthens narrative


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The Course of the Empire

 

Thomas Cole

 

1833-1836

 

Notes: 

-A Natural form (strange mountain) appears in all to bring them together

-Five Paintings

1) Raw and untamed-start of humanity

2) Leisurely and intelligent persuits, but one tree stump to foreshadow human taming

3) No room for nature to grow and breathe and mountain/nature is minimal.

4) Chaos and turmoil, only the mountain remains, and loss of reason(head)

5) Desolation because only the reminants of humans dusk vs dawn of 1.

 

 

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The Course of the Empire

(The Savage State) 

Thomas Cole

 

1833-1836

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The Course of the Empire

(The Arcadian Or Pastoral) 

Thomas Cole

 

1833-1836

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The Course of the Empire

(The Cosummation of the Empire) 

Thomas Cole

 

1833-1836

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The Course of the Empire

(Destruction) 

Thomas Cole

 

1833-1836

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The Course of the Empire

(Desolation) 

Thomas Cole

 

1833-1836

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Heart of the Andes

 

Frederic Edwin Church

 

1859


Notes:

 

-Most Famous Work

-Coherent and ordered in a X format.

-MINUTE details! SO SMALL. (opera glasses)

-Detail vs order = defines experience


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Sharpshooter

 

Winslow Homer

 

1863

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Right and Left

 

Winslow Homer

 

1909

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Max Schmitt in a Single Scull

 

Thomas Eakins

 

1871

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The Gross Clinic

 

Thomas Eakins

 

1875

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Black Iris

 

Georgia O'Keeffe

 

1926

 

Notes:

-Women feel through the womb.

-Charcoals = Finally a women on the page!

-Husband lots of pictures with her and her work.

-Sexually charged impression in painting

-"Outpouring of sexual juices" - she hated it!

-Why paint flowers? Feminine and sexual

-Not a bouquet, but a single flower that commands attention

-Flowers are very suggestive, "Dark empty centers"

-Suggestive, but still just a flower

-"You hung all your assosiations with my flower but I don't agree"

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Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue

 

Georgia O'Keeffe

 

1931

 

Notes:

36 By 40 Inches

-Skull is the emblem of mortality, the fleetingness of life

-Skull like a crucifix!

-Skull luminecent, and an unnatural vision

-Her symbol of the desert

-Gives this skull great importance and prescence

-"They talked so often of making the American work, but never the painting, so I'll make it even though they'll never notice it."

-Defined America as a place besides NYC.

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Ground Swell

 

Edward Hopper

 

1939

 

Notes:

-Painting in New England

-Inspired by Winslow and Eakins

-But departs, from others with a subtle unease

-Undulation (wave) from a distant storm w/danger

-Never presents danger infront of you, always subtle.

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Nighthawks

 

Edward Hopper

 

1942

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Slave Drum


Anonymous

 

late 17th century

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Rice Fanner Basket


Anonymous

 

circa. 1850

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Storage Jar


 David Drake, aka "Dave the Potter"

 

1858

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Bible Quilt I


Harriet Powers

 

1886

 

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Ethiopia Awakening

 

Meta Warrick Fuller

 

circa. 1914

 

Notes:

-Instead of persuring careers as art she followed to come together as a dynamic community.

-Drew from the past, anchored in the present, distinctly African American.

- Paris inspired and Rodin inspired

- Reamerging from a sleep and unconsciousness

- Egypt a huge African source of pride.

 

 

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"Future Expectations/Wedding Portrait"

 

James Van Der Zee

 

1926

 

Notes:

-Visual agenda to create a new image of AfAm.

-Brought them into the bourgouis/ prosperous

-Girl is superimposed = happy family life in their dreams!


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Blues


Archibald Motley

 

1929

 

Notes: 

-A french depiction of "Le Petite Cafe"

- 3 things that captures the dynamism of black music and dance.

1) lots of energetic bodies

2) Cropping of the body

3) Warm/earth tones with orange and browns and sensuality 


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African Dancer

 

Richmond Barthé

 

1933

 

Notes:

-Bottom of a man and top of a women.

-African thought of as the dark continent


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Aspects of Negro Life

Panel 1: "The Negro in An African Setting"
Aaron Douglas

 

1934

 


Notes:

-Very geometric and very large paintings

- Lots of concentric circles, the lightest parts are the key parts.

- Inspired by modern art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Aspects of Negro Life

Panel 2: "From Slavery Through Reconstruction"
Aaron Douglas


1934 

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Aspects of Negro Life

Panel 3: "An Idyll of the Deep South"
Aaron Douglas

 

1934 

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Aspects of Negro Life

Panel 4: "Song of the Towers"
Aaron Douglas

 

1934

 

 


Notes:

-Industrial North and the Great Migration

-Contradictory 

 

 

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Baptism Scene


Doris Ulmann

 

1929-1930

 

Notes:

- Folk culture was the new thing!

-Agrarian life was the new place to be! Warm and happy!

- People wanted less complicated living and more easy values.

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The Flag is Bleeding


Faith Ringgold

 

1967

 

Notes:


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Die


Faith Ringgold

 

1967

   

Notes:

-Based off of a riot scene

-White boy and black girl together and unbloodied

-Angular legs and contrasting colors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wall of Respect


Organization of Black American Culture

 

1967

 


Notes:

-Black arts movement

-Wall of black heros made during the summer 

-Obasci 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wall of Respect


Organization of Black American Culture

 

1967

 

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The Dinner Party


Judy Chicago

 

1974-79

 


 

 

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Untitled

 

Ana Mendieta

 

1976

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"Jump in Place, Feet Together"


Etienne-Jules Marey


circa 1886

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"Portrait of his Wife, Ernestine Nadar"


Nadar

 

circa 1900

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"Corsets"


Eugène Atget


1912

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"Parc de Sceaux. June, 7 a.m."

 

Eugène Atget


1925

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Le Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life)


Henri Matisse


1905-1906

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Dance


Henri Matisse


1910


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Studio with Eggplants


Henri Matisse

 

1911

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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon


Pablo Picasso

 

1907

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The Poet


Pablo Picasso

 

1911

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Maquette for Guitar


Pablo Picasso

 

1912

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Still Life Violin and Fruit

 

Pablo Picasso

 

1912

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Guernica


Pablo Picasso

 

1937

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Houses at l'Estaque


Georges Braque

 

1908

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Le Courrier


Georges Braque

 

1913

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The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even


Marcel Duchamp

 

1915-1923

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In Advance of the Broken Arm


Marcel Duchamp

 

1915

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Fountain


Marcel Duchamp

 

1917

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L.H.O.O.Q.


Marcel Duchamp

 

1919

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Rotoreliefs


Marcel Duchamp

 

1935

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Suprematist Compostion, White on White


Kasimir Malevich

 

1918

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Monument to the Third International


Valdimir Tatlin

 

1921

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Proun LN 31


El Lissitsky

 

1922

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Composition No. 10 (Piere and Ocean)

 

Piet Mondrian

 

1915

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Composition No. 2

  

Piet Mondrian

 

1922

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Red-Blue Chair


Marcel Breuer

 

1925

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Wassily Chair


Marcel Breuer

 

1925

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Senecio


Paul Klee

 

1922

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The Master's Bedroom It's Worth Spending A Night There


Max Ernst

 

circa 1920

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Approaching Puberty


Max Ernst

 

1921

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Accomodations of Desire


Salvador Dali

 

1929

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Object


Meret Oppenheim

 

1936

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Untitled photograph


Walker Evans

 

1936

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Guardians of the Secret


Jackson Pollock

 

1943

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Lavender Mist: Number 1

 

Jackson Pollock

 

1950

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Excavation


Willem De Kooning

 

1950

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Study for Woman 1


Willem De Kooning

 

1950

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Compostion no. 10


Mark Rothko

 

1950

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Target with Plaster Casts


Jasper Johns

 

1955

 

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100 Cans


Andy Warhol

 

1962

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Red Race Riot

 

Andy Warhol

 

1963

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Jackie


Andy Warhol

 

1965

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"Indianapolis"


Robert Frank

 

1955-1956

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"Untitled Film Still #56"


Cindy Sherman

 

1980

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Higher Goals


David Hammons

 

1986

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Spiral Jetty


Robert Smithson

 

1970

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La Jetée

 

Chris Marker

 

1962

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The Bowery In Two Inadequate Descripitive Systems


Martha Rosler

 

1974-1975

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The Bowery In Two Inadequate Descripitive Systems


Martha Rosler

 

1974-1975

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Yielding Stone


Gabriel Orozco

 

1992

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Extension of a Reflection


Gabriel Orozco

 

1992

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Cremaster 4


Matthew Barney

 

1994

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Untitled photograph of the ongoing collective project, The Land

Rirkrit Tiravanija

 

2002


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One Million Kingdoms


Pierre Kuyghe


2001

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Ubu Tells the Truth


William Kentridge

 

1997

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Ubu Tells the Truth


William Kentridge

 

1997

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Dammi I Colori

 

Anri Sala

 

2003

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Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest - Part 1


Yang Fudong

 

2003

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Strikes at Time


Raqs Media Collective

 

2011

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Le Antichitá Romane

Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

 

1756

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Le Antichitá Romane

Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

 

1756

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Le Antichitá Romane

Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

 

1756

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[image]
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Le Antichitá Romane

Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

 

1756

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Le Carceri d'Invenzione

Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

 

1745

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Definition

Le Carceri d'Invenzione

Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

 

1745

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[image]
Definition

Le Carceri d'Invenzione

Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

 

1745

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House of the Architect

London

John Soane

 

1794-1824

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House of the Architect

London

John Soane

1794-1824

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House of the Architect

London

John Soane

 

1794-1824

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House of the Architect

London

John Soane

 

1794-1824

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[image]
Definition

Saltworks

Arc-et-Senans

Claude Nicholas Ledoux

 

1775-80

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Saltworks

Arc-et-Senans

Claude Nicholas Ledoux

 

1775-80

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Saltworks

Arc-et-Senans

Claude Nicholas Ledoux

 

1775-80

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Chaux


Claude Nicholas Ledoux

 

1804

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Chaux


Claude Nicholas Ledoux

 

1804

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Chaux


Claude Nicholas Ledoux

 

1804

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Cenotaph to Issac Newton


Étienne Boullée

 

1784

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[image]
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Altes Museum

Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

 

1823-1830

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Altes Museum

Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

 

1823-1830

Term
[image]
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Altes Museum

Berlin

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

 

1823-1830

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Crystal Palace

London

Joseph Paxton

 

1850-1851

Term
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Contrasts: A parallel Between the Nobel Edifices of the Middle Ages, and Corresponding Buldings of th Present Day Shewing the Present Decay of Taste

 

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

 

1836

Term
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Contrasts: A parallel Between the Nobel Edifices of the Middle Ages, and Corresponding Buldings of th Present Day Shewing the Present Decay of Taste

 

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

 

1836

Term
[image]
Definition

Contrasts: A parallel Between the Nobel Edifices of the Middle Ages, and Corresponding Buldings of th Present Day Shewing the Present Decay of Taste

 

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

 

1836

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[image]
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All Saint's Magaret Street

London

William Butterfield

 

1849-1859

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All Saint's Magaret Street

London

William Butterfield

 

1849-1859

Term
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All Saint's Magaret Street

London

William Butterfield

 

1849-1859

Term
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The Guaranty Building

Buffalo

Louis Sullivan

 

1891-1894

Term
[image]
Definition

The Guaranty Building

Buffalo

Louis Sullivan

 

1891-1894

Term
[image]
Definition

Robie House

Chicago

Frank Lloyd Wright 

 

1908-1910

Term
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Robie House

Chicago

Frank Lloyd Wright 

 

1908-1910

Term
[image]
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Vers une architecture


Le Corbusier

 

1923

Term
[image]
Definition

Villa Savoye

Poissy

Le Corbusier

 

1929-1932

Term
[image]
Definition

Villa Savoye

Poissy

Le Corbusier

 

1929-1932

Term
[image]
Definition

Villa Savoye

Poissy

Le Corbusier

 

1929-1932

Term
[image]
Definition

Ronchamp

 

Le Corbusier

 

1951-1954

Term
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Ronchamp

 

Le Corbusier

 

1951-1954

Term
[image]
Definition

Bauhaus Building

Dessau

Walter Gropius

 

1925-1926

Term
[image]
Definition

Seagram Building

New York

Mies van der Rohe

 

1956-1959

Term
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Guggenheim Museum

Bilbao

Frank Gehry

 

1991-1997

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