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VASSILY KANDINSKY,
Improvisation 28 (second version),
1912.
Oil on canvas,
3’ 7 ⅞” x 5’ 3 ⅞”.
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PABLO PICASSO,
Guernica,
1937.
Oil on canvas,
11’ 5 ½” x 25’ 5 ¾”.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
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UMBERTO BOCCIONI,
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,
1913 (cast 1931).
Bronze,
3’ 7 ⅞” x 2’ 10 ⅞” x 1’ 3 ¾”.
Museum of Modern Art, New York (acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest).
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MAN RAY,
Cadeau (Gift),
ca. 1958 (replica of 1921 original).
Painted flatiron with row of 13 tacks with heads glued to the bottom,
6 ⅛” x 3 ⅝” x 4 ½”.
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MARCEL DUCHAMP,
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2,
1912.
Oil on canvas,
4’ 10” x 2’ 11”.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO,
The Song of Love,
1914.
Oil on canvas,
2’ 4 ¾” x 1’ 11 ⅜”.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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PIET MONDRIAN,
Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow,
1930.
Oil on canvas,
1’ 6 ⅛” x 1’ 6 ⅛”.
Kunsthaus, Zürich.
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HENRY MOORE,
Reclining Figure,
1939.
Elm wood,
3’ 1” x 6’ 7” x 2’ 6”.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit |
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LE CORBUSIER,
Villa Savoye,
Poissy-sur-Seine, France,
1929.
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JACOB LAWRENCE,
No. 49 from The Migration of the Negro,
1940–1941.
Tempera on masonite,
1’ 6” x 1’.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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ARSHILE GORKY,
Garden in Sochi,
ca. 1943.
Oil on canvas,
2’ 7" X 3’ 3”.
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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MARK ROTHKO,
No. 14,
1961
Oil on canvas,
9’ 6” x 8’ 9”.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
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JASPER JOHNS,
Three Flags, 1958.
Encaustic on canvas,
2’ 6 7/8" X 3’ 9 1/2”.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
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JOERN UTZON,
Sydney Opera House,
Sydney, Australia,
1959–1972.
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JUDY CHICAGO,
The Dinner Party,
1979.
Multimedia, including ceramics and stitchery,
48’ x 48’ x 48’.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn.
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Bichitr
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings
ca. 1615–1618.
Opaque
watercolor on paper,
1’ 6 7⁄8” x 1’ 1”.
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Bichitr
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings
ca. 1615–1618.
Opaque
watercolor on paper,
1’ 6 7⁄8” x 1’ 1”.
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Outermost gopuras of the Great Temple,
Madurai, India,
completed 17th century.
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Walking Buddha,
from Sukhothai, Thailand,
14th century.
Bronze,
7’ 2 1⁄2” high.
Wat Bechamabopit, Bangkok
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Aerial view (looking north) of the Forbidden City,
Beijing, China,
Ming dynasty,
15th century and later.
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Shen Zhou,
Poet on a Mountaintop,
Ming dynasty,
ca. 1490–1500.
Album leaf, ink on paper,
1’ 3 1⁄4” x 1’ 11 3⁄4”.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
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Namdaumun,
Seoul, South Korea,
Choson dynasty,
first built in 1398.
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Karesansui (dry landscape) garden,
Ryoanji temple,
Kyoto, Japan,
Muromachi periodca. 1488.
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Kogan (tea-ceremony water jar),
Momoyama period,
late 16th century.
Shino glazed stoneware with underglaze from slip decoration,
7 3⁄4” high.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.
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Katsushika Hokusai
The Great Wave off Kanagawa,
from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,
Edo period
1826–1833.
Woodblock print, ink and colors on paper,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Bigelow Collection).
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The founding of Tenochtitlán,
folio 2 recto of the Codex Mendoza, Aztec,
from Mexico City, Mexico,
1541–1542.
Ink and color on paper,
1’ 7⁄8” x 8 5⁄8”.
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford.
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Remains of the Temple of the Sun
(surmounted by the church of Santo Domingo),
Inka, Cuzco, Peru,
15th century.
Exterior (left); interior (right).
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Eagle transformation mask,
closed (top) and open (bottom) views,
Kwakiutl, Alert Bay, Canada,
late 19th century.
Wood, feathers, and string,
1’ 10” x 11”.
American Museum of Natural History, New York.
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Abelam yam mask,
from Maprik district,
Papua New Guinea, Melanesia.
Painted cane,
1’ 6 9/10” high.
Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva
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Row of moai on a stone platform,
Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Polynesia,
10th to 12th centuries.
Volcanic tuff and red scoria.
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Feather cloak,
from Hawaii, Polynesia,
ca. 1824–1843.
Feathers and fiber netting,
4’ 8 1⁄3” x 8’.
Bishop Pauahi Museum, Honolulu.
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Nail figure (nkisi n’kondi),
Kongo, from Shiloango River area, Democratic Republic of Congo,
ca. 1875–1900.
Wood, nails, blades, medicinal materials, and cowrie shell,
3’ 10 3⁄4” high.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit.
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Osei Bonsu
linguist’s staff of two men sitting at a table of food,
Asante, Ghana,
mid-20th century.
Wood and gold leaf,
section shown approx. 10” high
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KEHINDE WILEY,
Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps,
2005.
Oil on canvas,
9’ x 9’.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
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David Wojnarowicz
"When I Put My Hands On Your Body",
1990.
Gelatin- silver print and silk-screened text on museum board,
2’ 2” x 3’ 2”.
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Chris Ofili
The Holy Virgin Mary,
1996.
Paper collage, oil paint, glitter, polyester resin, map pins, elephant dung on linen,
7’ 11” x 5’ 11 5/16”.
The Saatchi Collection, London.
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Xu Bing
A Book from the Sky,
1987.
Installation at Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1991.
Moveable-type prints and books.
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KIKI SMITH,
Untitled,
1990.
Beeswax and microcrystalline wax figures on metal stands,
female figure installed height 6’ 1 1⁄2”;
male figure installed height 6’ 4 15/16”.
Whitney Museum of American Art, .
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JENNY HOLZER,
Untitled
(selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text),
1989.
Extended helical tricolor LED electronic display signboard, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York,
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CHRISTO and JEANNE-CLAUDE,
Surrounding Islands,
1980-83,
Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida,
1980-83.
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FRANK GEHRY,
Guggenheim Bilbao Museo,
Bilbao, Spain,
1997.
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Contemporary Art Worldwide
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