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Introduction: the aesthetic and ideological context for figuration vs. abstraction going into WWII |
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Formalizing the unconscious: Surrealism. Matta (Echaurren), Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Sandy Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Henry Moore, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, and Hans Hofmann |
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"I am Nature:" Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Screening of Jackson Pollock, 1951 film by Hans Namuth |
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Gesture vs. Field: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell vs. Rothko, Newman, Reinhardt |
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Abstract expressionist sculpture: David Smith's "Drawing in Space" vs. Bourgeois's and Nevelson's intimate worlds; Roszak, Lipton, Ferber |
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Rothkko, Still, and the San Francisco school; Tobey, Matthieu, Yoshihara and the "Gutai" group, promotion of an "ecole du Pacifique" |
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Body vs. Gesture in Europe: Giacometti, Dubuffet, Fautrier, Tachisme, l'art informel, CoBrA, the d'affichistes, Yves Klein, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely |
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John Cage, Robert Rauschenber, Jasper Johns, and the question of a homosexual aesthetic |
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Bay Area figurative art: the view from the West Coast; California funk and Chicago's "Hairy Who" |
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The Beats; environments and happenings in the US (Fluxus begins) |
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Post-painterly abstraction and formalist sculpture; Greenberg's reign |
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Screening of Painters Painting, 1970 film by Emile De Antonio |
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Meet at List Visual Art Center for tour of exhibitions |
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Frank Stella and Minmal art: The corporate icon (Andre, Judd, Flavin, Morris) |
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Warhol's Factory; pop art and another kind of industrial aesthetic (Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Dine, Marisol) |
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The Independent Group (London); Capitalist Realism (Germany); Arte Povera (Italy) |
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Early conceptual art: Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, Richard Artschwager; international conceptualism and Fluxus |
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Sculptors of land, poets of light: Robert Smithson and Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Richard Long (UK), Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, Robert Irwin, James Turrell; screening of Spiral Jetty, 1970 film by Robert Smithson. |
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Performance vs. Intervention in an international context: Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Bruce Nauman, Helio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles, Zhang Huan |
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From Smithson to Gordon Matta-Clark, "Post-Minimalism" and process artists: Eva Hesse, Jackie Winsor, Lynda Benglis; screening of Office Baroque, 1977 film by Gordon Matta-Clark |
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Women buck the Canon: Louise Bourgeois to "Womanhouse" and "The Dinner Party," status of the decorative; performance art redux: Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneeman, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Piper |
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Identity politics: Bettye Saar, David Hammons, Fred Wilson, Lorna Simpson, Jimmy Durham, James Luna; Public interventions: Hans Haacke, Maya Lin, AIDS Demo-graphics, Krzysztof Wodiczko |
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PoMo 1, appropriation art: Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach; "Neo Geo:" Peter Halley, Philip Taaffe |
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Installation art, "new media art," political interventions, and globalism |
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In-class debate, class summary and review |
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