Max Weber

New York Rush Hour

Cubism

shows movement, shows the industrial process, chaos through abstracted form, almost looks like there is sound reverberations of subway walls

John Marin

Lower Manhattan

Cubist

Georgia O'Keefe

Ranchos Church

Modernism melded with Regionalism

Married to Alfred Stiegler

it’s an adobe chapel. It is living and breathing. Has a southwest feel, a bit more representational than modernist

Georgia O'Keefe

The Great American Painting

Modernism melded with Regionalism

Married to Alfred Stiegler

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Joseph Stella

Brooklyn Bridge

Futurism or Precisionism

Joseph Stella

Battle of City lights, Coney Island

Futurimsm or precisionism

Charles Sheeler

Classic Landscape

American Futurism

show technology in industry, elevating status of technology

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain

Dadaism 

(make fun of high-minded art, non-sense, gibberish, didn’t make sense)

Marcel Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase

Dadaism

(make fun of high-minded art, non-sense, gibberish, didn’t make sense)

Thomas Hart Benton

The Arts of the West

Regionalism

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John Steuart Curry

Tornado Over Kansas

Regionalism

Grant Wood

American Gothic

Regionalism

reflects Midwest, deep-rooted ruralism, gothic window, kind of a sense of humor to it. A satirical approach. Puritanical figures, from afar it looks like they have pride in the work, they are flawed individuals, almost makes fun of traditional values (the weird face), looks like it would be praising them, but in reality he is making fun of them

Maynard Dixon

Forgotten Man

Regionalism

pull out the characteristics of a certain region, reflects values of that community, reaction to modernism

by Americans, – (he is also Modernism/Social Realism)

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Maynard Dixon 

Earth Knower

Regionalism

pull out the characteristics of a certain region, reflects values of that community, reaction to modernism by Americans, – (he is also Modernism/Social Realism)

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Arshile Gorky

The Liver is the Cock's Comb

American Surrealism

Jackson Pollock

Autumn Rhythm

Abstract Expressionism (New York School)

Willem de Kooning

Woman & Bicycle

Abstract Expressionism

Franz Kline

Caboose

Geometric Expressionism

simpflication of modernist technique. Zooms in on an object so you can’t tell what it is.  It leads to a dead-end (you’ll eventually have a white canvas

Robert Motherwell

Elegy to the Spanish Republic

Colorfield Painting

Mark Rothko

Number 10

Colorfield Painting

Helen Frankenthaler

The Bay

Colorfield Painting

Helen Frankenthaler

Small's Paradise

Colorfield Painting

Norman Rockwell

Four Freedoms

Popular Illustration

Robert Raushenberg

Bed

Pop Art or Neo Dadaism

Robert Rauschenberg

Estate

Pop Art or Neo Dadaism

Jasper Johns

Flag

Pop Art

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Monroe

Pop Art

·         dehumanizing, lack of detail or shape, mass production- factory product

Andy Warhol

Coca Cola Bottles

Pop Art

Roy Lichtenstein

I don't Care

Pop Art

Barbara Kruger

I shop therefore I am

Political Art/Deconstruction Art/ Anti-consumerist Art/ Feminist Art

Jenny Holzer

Protect Me from What I want

Political Art/Deconstruction Art/ Anti-consumerist Art/ Feminist Art

Cindy Sherman

Untitled Film Still, No. 66

Freud

Citizen Kane- childhood belonging that becomes the repository of repressed desires and regrets.  Rosebud à childhood suppression, dig through childhood to find adult problems. Sledding during the loss of his parents therefore these emotions became attached to the object.

Walter Benjamin

1. Kingston Trio popularized it. 2.Purist were involved in counter politics (Pete Sagar) and tried to channel the old folk values. Bob Dylan – more ambiguous, African American rhythms, added electric guitar and screwed up the purists. New Port (what is it?) Festival was in Rhode Island.

o   Core of profound truth in a complex, puzzle-like text

o   Faith in big, society changing theories- Freudianism, Marxism

o   Single- voiced works of art and culture

o   Cultural tone serious, earnest, and heroic

o   Dominant school of theory- formalism ( art is an aesthetic experiment that should be examined apart from culture and politics; formalist critics loved abstract expressionism, hated pop art)

o   Artist as genius and society-liberating visionary- creates original, avant-garde, experimental work

o   Identity to be found away from traditional institutions and provincial belief systems; move from false to solid, true consciousness with the help of Freudianism, Marxism or some other liberating set of advanced… finish last point from slide****

Post Modernism

·         No core to the text- multiple truths, ambiguity, or no truth (open ended in its meanings)

·         Skepticism towards overly simplistic, confident society-changing theories

·         Multi- voiced texts (events or truths seem… finish with slides)**

·         Cultural tone ironic and playful (pervasiveness of hip irony in contemporary culture)

·         Dominant schools- reader response, cultural studies, post-structuralism, etc. (getting away from purely formalist readings, or efforts at identifying a fixed stable meaning in a text)

·         The artist as sensitive cultural conduit of images and ideas from the surrounding culture; recycler of imagery and styles from the past

·         *** last point on slide

• controversial in his borrowing of other sources (bible, religious leaders, founding fathers) -- collective voice/ speech
• ground in fold traditions: oral storytelling, call and response, communal art form
• ironic quoting of founding fathers and twist on black's rights for freedom
• not concerned with modernist notions of original creator and genius but rather the post modern thought of collection and conduit

Michael Herr

Acts as conduit to the ground level experience of war rather that passive observing journalist.

Sometimes it just happens that way; That's all

Post Modern qualities-ambiguity of different accounts and perspectives, acting as conduit with multi vocal quality, does not draw any conclusions for the reader, competing cultural identities and perspectives, ambiguity in sense of cultural identity,

Significance of border culture- a site of cultural fusion and conflict. Needs a syle of writing/reporting allowing for competing voices. Can’t favor one over the other or will not be open ended

As a sensitive and objective conduit he allows the complexity of peoples live and their cultures to speak for themselves.

King Oliver

New Orleans Jazz

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Dixieland Jazz

Benny Goodman 

Swings

Rhapsody in Blue

George Gershwin

Symphonic Jazz

The Carter Family

Folk

Patsy Cline

Country

Bill Monroe

Bluegrass

Joan Baez

1960's Folk Revival

·         Modernist masterpiece within Studio system/era

Modernist characteristics of Citizen Kane

·         Production/creation

o   Auteur- (French) author. Someone who creates a body of work with their distinctive aesthetic or vision – managed every aspect of the production- director, producer, caster, actor (star)

o   Orson Welles gained this status through his success with “War of the Worlds” however he had offended so many people with the controversial issues of his movie that he did not retain his wealth or power as a true auteur would.

o   Welles went way over budget with film, did poorly at box office because of controversies, etc. began revival in 1960’s as shown on college campuses and such- viewed as a forgotten masterpiece

o   Experimental techniques – “tradition of the new”

§  Flashbacks

§  Montage

§  Jump cut

§  Dissolve/Fade

§  Low & high angle shots à extreme low angle shots

§  Shwish pans àcamera spins around to show a passing of time- used to contrast change that occurs as time goes by

§  Deep focus à new camera technique

§  Off kilter shots

§  Lighting, and editing add effects

§  Original- not created according to genre patterns

·         Reception (misunderstood at time of release)

o   Ahead of its time, low success in box office, challenging/satiric- pointing at public figure)

·         Critical, satirical treatment of various myths and conventional wisdom

·         Narratives/themes

o   Puzzle, mystery – layered film with search for core of truth

·         Freudian themes

o   Collective psychoanalysis of Kane through interviews of people in his life. Stream of consciousness

o   Freudian concept: the “lost object”: childhood belonging that becomes the repository of repressed desires and regrets.  Rosebud à childhood suppression, dig through childhood to find adult problems. Sledding during the loss of his parents therefore these emotions became attached to the object.

o   Dream like state as character gets more mad

o   Wish fulfillment

·         Nonmodernist qualities:

o   Staged as if a play