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SmartHistory of Art IXb- Modernism 1945 to 1980
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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Contents· 215 sections
- 01: Latin American Modernism
- 1.01: Latin American art an introduction
- 1.02: Early vanguards
- 1.2.01: Francisco Goitia Tata Jesucristo
- 1.2.02: Luis Nishizawa and mexicanidad
- 1.2.03: Amelia Pelaez del Casal Fishes
- 1.03: Mexican Muralism
- 1.3.01: Mexican Muralism- Los Tres Grandes David Alfaro Siqueiros Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco
- 1.3.02: Diego Rivera
- 1.3.2.01: Diego Rivera first and second floor murals of the Secretaria de Educacion Publica
- 1.3.2.02: Diego Rivera Stairwell and Third Floor Court of Labor at the SEP
- 1.3.2.03: The History of Mexico- Diego Riveras Murals at the National Palace
- 1.3.2.04: Sugar Cane
- 1.3.2.05: Man at the Crossroads
- 1.3.2.06: Man Controller of the Universe
- 1.3.2.07: Detroit Industry Murals
- 1.3.2.08: Calla Lilly Vendor (Vendedora de Alcatraces)
- 1.3.2.09: Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park
- 1.3.03: Jose Clemente Orozco Dive Bomber and Tank
- 1.04: Surrealism
- 1.4.01: Frida Kahlo
- 1.4.1.01: Frida Kahlo introduction
- 1.4.1.02: Frieda and Diego Rivera
- 1.4.1.03: The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas)
- 1.4.02: Rosa Rolanda Self-Portrait
- 1.4.03: Wifredo Lam
- 1.4.3.01: The Jungle
- 1.4.3.02: The Eternal Presence
- 1.4.04: Hector Hyppolite Ogou Feray also known as Ogoun Ferraille by DR. TAMARA DIAZ CALCANO
- 1.05: Constructivism
- 1.5.01: Geometric Abstraction in South America an introduction
- 1.5.02: Joaquin Torres-Garcia
- 1.5.2.01: Composition
- 1.5.2.02: Inverted America
- 1.5.03: Lygia Clark Bicho
- 1.5.04: Breaking the Frame the Concrete Art Movement
- 1.5.05: Painting in an Industrial Age the Concrete Art Movement
- 1.5.06: The Challenge of a Straight Line the Concrete Art Movement
- 1.5.07: Rhod Rothfuss Yellow Quadrangle
- 1.06: Brazilian modernism
- 1.6.01: The origins of modern art in Sao Paulo an introduction
- 1.6.02: Tarsila do Amaral Abaporu
- 1.6.03: An Antidote for Social Amnesia- The Memory Space of the Cais do Valongo
- 1.6.04: Leticia Parente Marca registrada
- 1.6.05: Helio Oiticica Parangoles
- 1.07: International style architecture
- 1.7.01: International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
- 1.7.02: Building Brasilia
- 1.08: Photography
- 1.8.01: Martin Chambi Juan de la Cruz Sihuana Cuzco Studio
- 1.8.02: Lola Alvarez Bravo Architectural Anarchy in Mexico City
- 1.8.03: Jose Yalenti Architecture or Twilight
- 02: American art to WWII
- 2.01: American Impressionism
- 2.1.01: Metcalf Havana Harbor
- 2.1.02: When the department store was new- Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones The Shoe Shop
- 2.02: Symbolism Henry Ossawa Tanner
- 2.2.01: The Banjo Lesson
- 2.2.02: Angels Appearing before the Shepherds
- 2.2.03: The Good Shepherd
- 2.03: Ashcan School
- 2.3.01: The Ashcan School an introduction
- 2.3.02: George Luks Hester Street
- 2.3.03: George Bellows
- 2.3.3.01: Pennsylvania Station Excavation
- 2.3.3.02: Both Members of This Club
- 2.3.3.03: Return of the Useless
- 2.3.04: John Sloan Movies
- 2.04: 291
- 2.4.01: 291Little Galleries of the Photo Secession
- 2.4.02: Alfred Stieglitz The Steerage
- 2.4.03: Florine Stettheimer Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz
- 2.4.04: Marsden Hartley Portrait of a German Officer
- 2.4.05: Joseph Stella The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted
- 2.4.06: Charles Demuth I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
- 2.4.07: Georgia O'Keeffe
- 2.4.7.01: Radiator BuildingNight New York
- 2.4.7.02: The Lawrence Tree
- 2.05: North American Modernism
- 2.5.01: Yasuo Kuniyoshi Little Joe with Cow
- 2.5.02: Elsie Driggs Blast Furnaces
- 2.5.03: Millard Sheets Tenement Flats
- 2.5.04: Franklin Carmichael Grace Lake
- 2.06: The American west
- 2.6.01: Stephen Mopope U.S. Post Office Murals Anadarko OK
- 2.6.02: Stephen Mopope Game of Skill
- 2.07: The American south and southwest
- 2.7.01: Robert Henri Tom Po Qui (Water of Antelope Lake Indian Girl Ramoncita)
- 2.7.02: Walter Ufer Hunger
- 2.7.03: The lure of the American Southwest- E. Martin Hennings Rabbit Hunt
- 2.7.04: Velino Shije Herrera (Ma Pe Wi) Design Tree and Birds
- 2.7.05: Nampeyo (Hopi-Tewa) polychrome jar
- 2.7.06: Puebloan- Maria Martinez Black-on-black ceramic vessel
- 2.7.07: Julian Martinez Buffalo Dancers
- 2.7.08: 10.7.8-Awa Tsirehs Pottery Makers
- 2.08: Harlem Renaissance
- 2.8.01: Aaron Douglas Aspiration
- 2.8.02: Jacob Lawrence
- 2.8.2.01: The Migration Series
- 2.8.2.02: Ambulance Call
- 2.09: Social Realism
- 2.9.01: Todros Geller Strange Worlds
- 2.9.02: Hale Woodruff The Banjo Player
- 2.9.03: Grant Wood
- 2.9.3.01: American Gothic
- 2.9.3.02: Parson Weems' Fable
- 2.9.04: Alexandre Hogue Crucified Land
- 2.9.05: Vertis Hayes The Lynchers
- 2.9.06: Vertis Hayes Juke Joint
- 2.9.07: Reginald Marsh Wooden Horses
- 2.9.08: Ben Shahn
- 2.9.8.01: The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
- 2.9.8.02: Miners' Wives
- 2.9.8.03: Contemporary American Sculpture
- 2.9.09: Romare Bearden Factory Workers
- 2.9.10: Edward Hopper Nighthawks
- 2.9.11: Horace Pippin
- 2.9.11.01: Horace Pippin Mr. Prejudice
- 2.9.11.02: Josiah McElheny on Horace Pippin
- 2.9.12: Norman Rockwell Rosie the Riveter
- 2.9.13: Eldzier Cortor Southern Landscape
- 2.10: Sculpture
- 2.10.01: Frederick MacMonnies Civic Virtue
- 2.10.02: Stone Mountain Georgia
- 2.10.03: Alexander Calder Mobile
- 2.11: Photography
- 2.11.01: Walker Evans Subway Passengers New York City
- 2.11.02: Ansel Adams- Visualizing a Photograph
- 2.11.03: Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother
- 2.11.04: Lotte Jacobi Albert Einstein
- 2.11.05: Harold Edgerton Milk-Drop Coronet Splash
- 03: Postwar American art
- 3.01: Abstract Expressionism
- 3.1.01: Abstract Expressionism an introduction
- 3.1.02: Finding meaning in abstraction
- 3.1.03: Norman Lewis Untitled
- 3.1.04: Willem de Kooning Woman I
- 3.1.05: Hedda Sterne Number 31957
- 3.1.06: Lee Krasner Untitled
- 3.1.07: Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 57
- 3.1.08: Jackson Pollock
- 3.1.8.01: Autumn Rhythm
- 3.1.8.02: Mural
- 3.1.8.03: The Case for Jackson Pollock
- 3.1.8.04: Why is that important Looking at Jackson Pollock
- 3.1.8.05: The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock
- 3.1.8.06: Conservation- Jackson Pollock One- Number 31 1950
- 3.1.8.07: Paint Application Studies of Jackson Pollocks Mural
- 3.1.09: Mark Rothko
- 3.1.9.01: No. 210 No. 211 (Orange) 1960
- 3.1.9.02: No. 3 No. 13
- 3.1.9.03: The Case for Mark Rothko
- 3.1.9.04: Mark Rothko (at MoMA)
- 3.1.9.05: Restoring Rothko
- 3.1.10: Barnett Newman
- 3.1.10.01: Onement I
- 3.1.10.02: Barnett Newman at MoMA
- 3.1.10.03: The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman
- 3.1.10.04: Representation and abstraction- looking at Millais and Newman
- 3.1.11: Franz Kline
- 3.1.11.01: Franz Kline at MoMA
- 3.1.11.02: The Painting Techniques of Franz Kline
- 3.1.12: Beauford Delaney Marian Anderson
- 3.1.13: Mark Bradford on Clyfford Still
- 3.02: New York School
- 3.2.01: The Impact of Abstract Expressionism
- 3.2.02: Sari Dienes Star Circle
- 3.2.03: Jasper Johns
- 3.2.3.01: Flag
- 3.2.3.02: White Flag
- 3.2.04: Robert Rauschenberg
- 3.2.4.01: Erased de Kooning Drawing
- 3.2.4.02: Canyon
- 3.2.4.03: Bed
- 3.2.4.04: Retroactive I
- 3.2.4.05: Robert Rauschenberg Signs
- 3.2.05: Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz Useful Art 5- The Western Motel
- 3.2.06: Ad Reinhardt
- 3.2.6.01: Abstract Painting
- 3.2.6.02: Ad Reinhardt at MoMA
- 3.2.6.03: The Painting Techniques of Ad Reinhardt
- 3.2.07: Helen Frankenthaler
- 3.2.7.01: Mountains and Sea
- 3.2.7.02: The Bay
- 3.2.08: Frank Stella The Marriage of Reason and Squalor
- 3.03: Postwar figurative art
- 3.3.01: Thelma Streat Girl with Bird
- 3.3.02: Charles Sebree The Mystic
- 3.3.03: George Tooker Highway
- 3.3.04: Jess If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink
- 3.3.05: Benny Andrews Flag Day
- 3.3.06: Romare Bearden Three Folk Musicians
- 3.3.07: Brummett Echohawk (Pawnee) An Island of Redbuds on the Cimarron
- 3.3.08: Duane Hanson Executive
- 3.3.09: Faith Ringgold Dancing at the Louvre
- 3.3.10: Faith Ringgold Ben
- 3.3.11: Ruthe Blalock Jones (Delaware Shawnee Peoria) Medicine Woman
- 3.3.12: Lin Tianmiao on Alex Katzs Black and Brown Blouse
- 3.04: Postwar abstraction
- 3.4.01: Josef Albers Homage to the Square
- 3.4.02: Ruth Asawa Untitled
- 3.4.03: Rita Mae Pettway Housetop (fractured medallion variation)
- 3.4.04: Alma Thomas Lunar RendezvousCircle of Flowers
- 3.4.05: Sam Gilliam Purpled (Chasers Series)
- 3.05: Photography
- 3.5.01: Gordon Parks Off on My Own (Harlem New York)
- 3.5.02: LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parkss Red Jackson
- 3.5.03: Garry Winogrand Democratic Convention 1960
- 3.5.04: Richard Avedon Audrey Hepburn New York January 1967
- 3.5.05: New Topographics
- 3.5.06: How Photographs of Poverty in the Americas Ignited an International Battle over Propaganda
- 3.5.07: Richard Misrachs early work and Border Cantos
- 3.5.08: Robert Frank
- 3.5.8.01: An interview with Robert Frank
- 3.5.8.02: Rashid Johnson on Robert Franks The Americans