SmartHistory of Art IXb- Modernism 1945 to 1980

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Two world wars, sweeping technological change, and the undoing of traditional academic art. The 20th century saw radical shifts in the way art was made—and it kept on shifting.

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Latin American Modernism
  7. 1.1: Latin American art, an introduction
  8. 1.2: Early vanguards
  9. 1.2.1: Francisco Goitia, Tata Jesucristo
  10. 1.2.2: Luis Nishizawa and mexicanidad
  11. 1.2.3: Amelia Peláez del Casal, Fishes
  12. 1.3: Mexican Muralism
  13. 1.3.1: Mexican Muralism- Los Tres Grandes David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco
  14. 1.3.2: Diego Rivera
  15. 1.3.2.1: Diego Rivera, first and second floor murals of the Secretaría de Educación Pública
  16. 1.3.2.2: Diego Rivera, Stairwell and Third Floor “Court of Labor” at the SEP
  17. 1.3.2.3: The History of Mexico- Diego Rivera’s Murals at the National Palace
  18. 1.3.2.4: Sugar Cane
  19. 1.3.2.5: Man at the Crossroads
  20. 1.3.2.6: Man Controller of the Universe
  21. 1.3.2.7: Detroit Industry Murals
  22. 1.3.2.8: Calla Lilly Vendor (Vendedora de Alcatraces)
  23. 1.3.2.9: Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park
  24. 1.3.3: José Clemente Orozco, Dive Bomber and Tank
  25. 1.4: Surrealism
  26. 1.4.1: Frida Kahlo
  27. 1.4.1.1: Frida Kahlo, introduction
  28. 1.4.1.2: Frieda and Diego Rivera
  29. 1.4.1.3: The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas)
  30. 1.4.2: Rosa Rolanda, Self-Portrait
  31. 1.4.3: Wifredo Lam
  32. 1.4.3.1: The Jungle
  33. 1.4.3.2: The Eternal Presence
  34. 1.4.4: Hector Hyppolite, Ogou Feray also known as Ogoun Ferraille by DR. TAMARA DÍAZ CALCAÑO
  35. 1.5: Constructivism
  36. 1.5.1: Geometric Abstraction in South America, an introduction
  37. 1.5.2: Joaquín Torres-García
  38. 1.5.2.1: Composition
  39. 1.5.2.2: Inverted America
  40. 1.5.3: Lygia Clark, Bicho
  41. 1.5.4: Breaking the Frame – the Concrete Art Movement
  42. 1.5.5: Painting in an Industrial Age – the Concrete Art Movement
  43. 1.5.6: The Challenge of a Straight Line – the Concrete Art Movement
  44. 1.5.7: Rhod Rothfuss, Yellow Quadrangle
  45. 1.6: Brazilian modernism
  46. 1.6.1: The origins of modern art in São Paulo, an introduction
  47. 1.6.2: Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporú
  48. 1.6.3: An Antidote for Social Amnesia- The Memory Space of the Cais do Valongo
  49. 1.6.4: Letícia Parente, Marca registrada
  50. 1.6.5: Hélio Oiticica, Parangolés
  51. 1.7: International style architecture
  52. 1.7.1: International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
  53. 1.7.2: Building Brasília
  54. 1.8: Photography
  55. 1.8.1: Martín Chambi, Juan de la Cruz Sihuana, Cuzco Studio
  56. 1.8.2: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Architectural Anarchy in Mexico City
  57. 1.8.3: José Yalenti, Architecture or Twilight
  58. 2: American art to WWII
  59. 2.1: American Impressionism
  60. 2.1.1: Metcalf, Havana Harbor
  61. 2.1.2: When the department store was new- Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, The Shoe Shop
  62. 2.2: Symbolism, Henry Ossawa Tanner
  63. 2.2.1: The Banjo Lesson
  64. 2.2.2: Angels Appearing before the Shepherds
  65. 2.2.3: The Good Shepherd
  66. 2.3: Ashcan School
  67. 2.3.1: The Ashcan School, an introduction
  68. 2.3.2: George Luks, Hester Street
  69. 2.3.3: George Bellows
  70. 2.3.3.1: Pennsylvania Station Excavation
  71. 2.3.3.2: Both Members of This Club
  72. 2.3.3.3: Return of the Useless
  73. 2.3.4: John Sloan, Movies
  74. 2.4: 291
  75. 2.4.1: 291—Little Galleries of the Photo Secession
  76. 2.4.2: Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage
  77. 2.4.3: Florine Stettheimer, Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz
  78. 2.4.4: Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer
  79. 2.4.5: Joseph Stella, The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted
  80. 2.4.6: Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
  81. 2.4.7: Georgia O'Keeffe
  82. 2.4.7.1: Radiator Building—Night, New York
  83. 2.4.7.2: The Lawrence Tree
  84. 2.5: North American Modernism
  85. 2.5.1: Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Little Joe with Cow
  86. 2.5.2: Elsie Driggs, Blast Furnaces
  87. 2.5.3: Millard Sheets, Tenement Flats
  88. 2.5.4: Franklin Carmichael, Grace Lake
  89. 2.6: The American west
  90. 2.6.1: Stephen Mopope, U.S. Post Office Murals, Anadarko, OK
  91. 2.6.2: Stephen Mopope, Game of Skill
  92. 2.7: The American south and southwest
  93. 2.7.1: Robert Henri, Tom Po Qui (Water of Antelope Lake/Indian Girl/Ramoncita)
  94. 2.7.2: Walter Ufer, Hunger
  95. 2.7.3: The lure of the American Southwest- E. Martin Hennings, Rabbit Hunt
  96. 2.7.4: Velino Shije Herrera (Ma Pe Wi), Design, Tree and Birds
  97. 2.7.5: Nampeyo (Hopi-Tewa), polychrome jar
  98. 2.7.6: Puebloan- Maria Martinez, Black-on-black ceramic vessel
  99. 2.7.7: Julian Martinez, Buffalo Dancers
  100. 2.7.8: 10.7.8-Awa Tsireh’s Pottery Makers
  101. 2.8: Harlem Renaissance
  102. 2.8.1: Aaron Douglas, Aspiration
  103. 2.8.2: Jacob Lawrence
  104. 2.8.2.1: The Migration Series
  105. 2.8.2.2: Ambulance Call
  106. 2.9: Social Realism
  107. 2.9.1: Todros Geller, Strange Worlds
  108. 2.9.2: Hale Woodruff, The Banjo Player
  109. 2.9.3: Grant Wood
  110. 2.9.3.1: American Gothic
  111. 2.9.3.2: Parson Weems' Fable
  112. 2.9.4: Alexandre Hogue, Crucified Land
  113. 2.9.5: Vertis Hayes, The Lynchers
  114. 2.9.6: Vertis Hayes, Juke Joint
  115. 2.9.7: Reginald Marsh, Wooden Horses
  116. 2.9.8: Ben Shahn
  117. 2.9.8.1: The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
  118. 2.9.8.2: Miners' Wives
  119. 2.9.8.3: Contemporary American Sculpture
  120. 2.9.9: Romare Bearden, Factory Workers
  121. 2.9.10: Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
  122. 2.9.11: Horace Pippin
  123. 2.9.11.1: Horace Pippin, Mr. Prejudice
  124. 2.9.11.2: Josiah McElheny on Horace Pippin
  125. 2.9.12: Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter
  126. 2.9.13: Eldzier Cortor, Southern Landscape
  127. 2.10: Sculpture
  128. 2.10.1: Frederick MacMonnies, Civic Virtue
  129. 2.10.2: Stone Mountain, Georgia
  130. 2.10.3: Alexander Calder, Mobile
  131. 2.11: Photography
  132. 2.11.1: Walker Evans, Subway Passengers, New York City
  133. 2.11.2: Ansel Adams- Visualizing a Photograph
  134. 2.11.3: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother
  135. 2.11.4: Lotte Jacobi, Albert Einstein
  136. 2.11.5: Harold Edgerton, Milk-Drop Coronet Splash
  137. 3: Postwar American art
  138. 3.1: Abstract Expressionism
  139. 3.1.1: Abstract Expressionism, an introduction
  140. 3.1.2: Finding meaning in abstraction
  141. 3.1.3: Norman Lewis, Untitled
  142. 3.1.4: Willem de Kooning, Woman, I
  143. 3.1.5: Hedda Sterne, Number 3—1957
  144. 3.1.6: Lee Krasner, Untitled
  145. 3.1.7: Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 57
  146. 3.1.8: Jackson Pollock
  147. 3.1.8.1: Autumn Rhythm
  148. 3.1.8.2: Mural
  149. 3.1.8.3: The Case for Jackson Pollock
  150. 3.1.8.4: Why is that important? Looking at Jackson Pollock
  151. 3.1.8.5: The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock
  152. 3.1.8.6: Conservation- Jackson Pollock, One- Number 31, 1950
  153. 3.1.8.7: Paint Application Studies of Jackson Pollock’s Mural
  154. 3.1.9: Mark Rothko
  155. 3.1.9.1: No. 210/No. 211 (Orange), 1960
  156. 3.1.9.2: No. 3/No. 13
  157. 3.1.9.3: The Case for Mark Rothko
  158. 3.1.9.4: Mark Rothko (at MoMA)
  159. 3.1.9.5: Restoring Rothko
  160. 3.1.10: Barnett Newman
  161. 3.1.10.1: Onement, I
  162. 3.1.10.2: Barnett Newman at MoMA
  163. 3.1.10.3: The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman
  164. 3.1.10.4: Representation and abstraction- looking at Millais and Newman
  165. 3.1.11: Franz Kline
  166. 3.1.11.1: Franz Kline at MoMA
  167. 3.1.11.2: The Painting Techniques of Franz Kline
  168. 3.1.12: Beauford Delaney, Marian Anderson
  169. 3.1.13: Mark Bradford on Clyfford Still
  170. 3.2: New York School
  171. 3.2.1: The Impact of Abstract Expressionism
  172. 3.2.2: Sari Dienes, Star Circle
  173. 3.2.3: Jasper Johns
  174. 3.2.3.1: Flag
  175. 3.2.3.2: White Flag
  176. 3.2.4: Robert Rauschenberg
  177. 3.2.4.1: Erased de Kooning Drawing
  178. 3.2.4.2: Canyon
  179. 3.2.4.3: Bed
  180. 3.2.4.4: Retroactive I
  181. 3.2.4.5: Robert Rauschenberg, Signs
  182. 3.2.5: Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Useful Art #5- The Western Motel
  183. 3.2.6: Ad Reinhardt
  184. 3.2.6.1: Abstract Painting
  185. 3.2.6.2: Ad Reinhardt at MoMA
  186. 3.2.6.3: The Painting Techniques of Ad Reinhardt
  187. 3.2.7: Helen Frankenthaler
  188. 3.2.7.1: Mountains and Sea
  189. 3.2.7.2: The Bay
  190. 3.2.8: Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor
  191. 3.3: Postwar figurative art
  192. 3.3.1: Thelma Streat, Girl with Bird
  193. 3.3.2: Charles Sebree, The Mystic
  194. 3.3.3: George Tooker, Highway
  195. 3.3.4: Jess, If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink
  196. 3.3.5: Benny Andrews, Flag Day
  197. 3.3.6: Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians
  198. 3.3.7: Brummett Echohawk (Pawnee), An Island of Redbuds on the Cimarron
  199. 3.3.8: Duane Hanson, Executive
  200. 3.3.9: Faith Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre
  201. 3.3.10: Faith Ringgold, Ben
  202. 3.3.11: Ruthe Blalock Jones (Delaware, Shawnee, Peoria), Medicine Woman
  203. 3.3.12: Lin Tianmiao on Alex Katz’s Black and Brown Blouse
  204. 3.4: Postwar abstraction
  205. 3.4.1: Josef Albers, Homage to the Square
  206. 3.4.2: Ruth Asawa, Untitled
  207. 3.4.3: Rita Mae Pettway, Housetop (fractured medallion variation)
  208. 3.4.4: Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers
  209. 3.4.5: Sam Gilliam, Purpled (Chasers Series)
  210. 3.5: Photography
  211. 3.5.1: Gordon Parks, Off on My Own (Harlem, New York)
  212. 3.5.2: LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parks’s Red Jackson
  213. 3.5.3: Garry Winogrand, Democratic Convention, 1960
  214. 3.5.4: Richard Avedon, Audrey Hepburn, New York, January 1967
  215. 3.5.5: New Topographics
  216. 3.5.6: How Photographs of Poverty in the Americas Ignited an International Battle over Propaganda
  217. 3.5.7: Richard Misrach’s early work and Border Cantos
  218. 3.5.8: Robert Frank
  219. 3.5.8.1: An interview with Robert Frank
  220. 3.5.8.2: Rashid Johnson on Robert Frank’s The Americans
  221. Back Matter
  222. Index
  223. Glossary
  224. Detailed Licensing
  225. Detailed Licensing