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Lecture Notes

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WEEK #-LEC#TOPIC
 1-1  Introduction: the Aesthetic and Ideological Context for Abstraction following WWII in the United States and Europe  
 2-1  The Unconscious made Visible: Matta, Masson, Miro, Calder, Noguchi, Moore; Formalizing the Intuitive: Arshile Gorky, John Graham, and Hans Hofmann
 2-2  "I am Nature:" Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Screening of Hans Namuth's influential 1951 film, Jackson Pollock
 3-1  Gesture/ Field: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell VERSUS Rothko, Newman, Reinhardt
 3-2  Abstract Expressionist Sculpture: David Smith's "Drawing in Space" versus Bourgeois's and Nevelson's Intimate Worlds; Roszak, Lipton, Ferber. 
 4-1  Rothko, Still, and the San Francisco School; Tobey, Matthieu, Yoshihara and the promotion of an "ecole du Pacifique"  
 4-2  Body/Gesture in Europe: (Giacometti, Dubuffet, Fautrier), Tachisme, l'art informel, CoBrA, the d'affichistes, the "Nouveaux Realistes" (Arman, Yves Klein), Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely  
 5-1  John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and the question of a homosexual aesthetic  
 5-2  The "Gutai" group in Japan; extending AbEx gesture into performance 
 6-1  Bay Area Figurative Art: The View from the West Coast; California Funk and Chicago's "Hairy Who"
 6-2  The Beats; Environments and Happenings in the US (Fluxus begins)  
 8-1  "Post-Painterly Abstraction" and Formalist Sculpture; Greenberg's reign 
 8-2  Frank Stella and Minimal Art: the Corporate Icon (Andre, Judd, Flavin, Morris)
 9-1  Warhol's Factory; Pop Art and another kind of Industrial Aesthetic (Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Dine, Marisol) 
 9-2  The Independent Group (London); German "Capitalist Realism"; Arte Povera (Italy)  
 10-1  Modes of Realism shading into conceptualism: Photorealism in US versus Lucian Freud, Malcolm Morley in UK
 10-2  Early Conceptual art: Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, Richard Artschwager; International conceptualism and Fluxus 
 11-1  Performance/Intervention abroad: Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Bruce Nauman, Helio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles 
 11-2  Sculptors of Land, Poets of Light: Robert Smithson and De Maria, Heizer, Long (UK) Morris, Flavin, Irwin, Turrell; screening of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty 
 12-1  Process Art (and Earthworks Catchup)
 12-2  Women buck the Canon: Louise Bourgeois to "Womanhouse" and "The Dinner Party," process/performance artists: Eva Hesse, Jackie Winsor, Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneeman, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Piper.
 13-1  African Americans: Bearden, Puryear, Saar, Piper, Wilson; Native Americans: Luna, Durham and Political Interventions  
 13-2  The End of American Hegemony? Italian "Bad Boys" (Mario Merz), Clemente, Chia, Cucchi; German Neo-Expressionists (Baselitz), Kiefer, Richter; US Neo-Expressionism with Graffitists: Basquiat, Haring; "Bad" Painting, New Image, etc.; Salle and Schnabel vs. Bartlett, Rothenberg, Murray 
 14-1  Appropriation Art: Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach; "Neo Geo": Peter Halley, Philip Taaffe. 
 14-2  Installation Art, Video, and New Media in context; class summary and review 

 


 



 








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