History of Art
 

History of Art 117b: Art of the Modern Era
Professors Crow & Golan


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MONUMENTS LIST I (under construction!!!)
                                         
MONUMENTS LIST II (nothing, don't go here...yet)
MONUMENTS LIST III (not bad)
MONUMENTS LIST IV (ditto)
 

Monuments List I
1/12 Introduction: portraits of the artist
Joseph Wright of Derby Experiment with an Air Pump 1768
Jaques-Louis David Antoine Lavoisier & his Wife 1788
Self-Portrait 1794
Adelaide Labille-Guiard Self-Portrait With Two Pupils 1785
 
1/14 The Enlightenment and the new art of everyday life
Jean-Baptiste Greuze The Village Bride (The Marriage Contract) 1761
Jean-Honore Fragonard The Bathers c. 1765
Francisco Goya The Parasol 1777
Crockery Vendor 1778
Thomas Gainsborough Robert Andrews and His Wife c. 1750
An Eruption of Vesuvius c.1775
Landscape with Rainbow 1794
 

1/19 The search for a morally purified return to classical antiquity
Jean-Honore Fragonard Coreseus and Callirhoe 1765
Gavin Hamilton Oath of Brutus c. 1763
James Barry  A Grecian Harvest Home 1791
Benjamin West Agrippina Returning with the Ashes of Germanicus 1768
The Death of General Wolfe 1771
Jean-Baptiste Grueze Septimus Severus Reproaching Caracalla 1769
Jaques-Louis David Belisarius Begging Alms 1781
Oath of the Horatii 1785
Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons 1789
Jean-Germain Drouais Marius at Minturnae 1787
 

1/21  Revolution and European warfare in French and Spanish painting
Jaques-Louis David Oath of the Tennis Court 1791
Marat at His Last Breath 1793
Intervention of the Sabine Women 1799
Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass 1800
Anne-Louise Girodet-Trioson Sleep of Endymion 1791
Pieta 1789
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley 1797
Jean-Baptiste Regnault Liberty or Death 1795
Francois Gerard Belisarius (print after lost painting) 1795
Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres Jupiter and Thetis 1811
Antoine Jean Gros Napoleon Visiting the Plague House at Jaffa 1804
Napoleon at the Battle of Eylau 1808
Francisco Goya The Disasters of War (Series) c. 1810-1820
The Executions of the 3rd of May, 1808 1814
 

1/26  Religion, natural history, and the exotic in French and German Romanticism
Theodore Gericault Charging Light Cavalryman (chasseur) 1812
Wounded Heavy Cavalryman (cuirassier) 1814
The Raft of the Medusa 1819
Portrait of an Insane Man (Kidnapper of Children) c. 1822-3
Portrait of an Insane Woman (Monomania of Envy) c. 1822-3
Constance Charpentier Melancholy 1801
Antonio Canova Tomb of Maria Christina of Austria 1799-1805
Philipp Otto Runge The Morning 1809
Friedrich Overbeck Family Portrait c. 1825
J.A.D. Ingres Christ Giving Keys to Peter 1820
Vow of Louis XIII 1824
Eugene Delacroix Bark of Dante and Virgil 1822
Massacre at Scio 1824
Death at Sardanapalus 1827
 
1/28  The landscape in Europe and America
Caspar David Friedrich Monk at the Seashore 1809
Wreck of the Hope (Artic Shipwreck) c. 1823
Traveller Standing over the Mist 1818
The Large Enclosure near Dresden 1832
John Constable Flatford Mill from the Lock c. 1810
Flatford Mill 1816
The Hay Wain 1821
The Leaping Horse 1825
Joseph M. W. Turner The Bay of Balae c. 1823
Fighting Temeraire 1838
Rain, Steam & Speed - The Great Western Railway 1844
P.H. Valenciennes Ancient City at Agrigento 1787
Georges Michel Windmill at Montmartre before a Storm
Theodore Rousseau Oak Trees near Fontainebleau
Camille Corot The Coloseum as Seen from the Farnese Gardens 1826
Diana and Acteon 1836
 
2/2  The rise of Bohemia and the Revolution of 1848
Eugene Delacroix The 28th July: Liberty Leading the People 1830
Thomas Cole Course of the Empire: Consummation 1836
Course of the Empire: Desolation 1836
Dream of Arcadia 1838
Horace Vernet The Duc d'Orleans (Louis-Phillippe) Proceeds to the Hotel-de-Ville, July 31, 1830 1833
Battle of Somah 1839
J.A.D. Ingres 1832
Francois Rude La Marseillaise 1833-34
Honore Daumier Rue Transonain, April 15, 1834 1834
Paul Delaroche Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Ary Scheffer The Shades of Paolo and Francesca 1835
Slaughter 1834
Theodore Chasseriau La Toilette d'Ester 1841
Gustave Courbet Man (Self-Portrait) with Leather Belt c. 1845
After Dinner at Ornans 1849
The Stonebreakers Salon of 1851
Peasants from Flagey Returning from Fair Salon of 1851
Burial at Ornans Salon of 1851
 

2/4  The implosion of tradition in Manet and the discovery of the modern
Jean Millet The Sower 1850
The Gleaners c. 1852
Man with the Hoe 1863
Gustave Courbet The Meeting (Le Rencontre) 1854
The Studio of the Painter: A Real Allegory Summing Up Seven Years of My Artistic Life 1854-5
Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine 1856
Honore Daumier The Third Class Carriage c. 1862
Edouard Manet The Street Singer 1862
Mademoiselle Victorine in the Costume of an Espada 1862
Christ Mocked 1865
Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass) 1863
Olympia 1863
Execution of Emperor Maximillian 1867
 
Monuments List II

Monuments List III
3/2 Dada
Umberto Boccioni The City Rises 1910
Jean Arp Rectangles arranged according to Laws of Chance c. 1916
Raoul Haussman Tatlin at Home 1920
Kurt Schwitters The "Artbeiter" picture 1919
 

3/4 Revolution as Utopia
Kasimir Malevich Black Square 1914
Suprematist Composition 1914
Suprematist Composition: White on White c. 1918
Vladimir Tatlin Counter-relief 1922
Alexandre Rodchenko Non-objective Painting: Black on Black 1918
Oval Hanging Construction no. 12 c. 1920
 
3/23 Call to order: the Machine Aesthetic
Paul Strand Akeley motion picture camera 1922
Charles Sheeler Ford Plant 1927
Fernand Leger Le Grand Dejeuner 1921
Le Corbusier Still Life (green guitar) 1920
Piet Mondrian Tableau #1 c. 1923
Laslo Moholy-Nagy Light-Space Modulator c. 1925
Marcel Duchamp The Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors) 1915-23
 

3/25 Trouble in the dreamwork: Surrealism
Max Ernst The Elephant Celebes 1921
Andre Masson Figure c. 1926
Joan Miro The Birth of the World 1925
Rene Magritte The Menaced Assassin 1926
Salvador Dali Objet scatologique a fonctionnement 1931-74
Meret Oppenheim Object: Fur Breakfast 1936
Man Ray Solarization 1929
 

3/30 Modernity and Melancholia
Giorgio de Chirico Song of Love 1914
Otto Dix Crippled War Veterans Playing Cards 1920
Portrait of Journalist, Sylvia Van Harden 1926
August Sander Young Farmers, Westerwald c. 1914
Ivo Saliger Judgment of Paris c. 1939
 

4/1 Made in the USA: Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock Guardians of the Secret 1945
Autumn Rhythm 1950
Willem de Kooning Woman I 1952
Mark Rothko Number 10 1952
Barnett Newman Covenant 1949
Helen Frankenthaler Mountains & Sea 1952
 

4/6 Art in Europe at the aftermath of World War II
A. O. W. Wols The Butterfly's Wing
Jean Dubuffet Le Metafisyx 1950
Alberto Giacometti Man walking 1960
Lucio Fontana Spatial Concept 1959
Ernst-Wilhelm Nay Musician 1948
Otto Piene Hellgelbhell [light yellow] 1958
 

Monuments List IV
4/8 Vernacular Culture: British & American Pop
Richard Hamilton Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? 1956
Robert Rauschenberg Interior 2 1958
Canyon 1959
Retroactive II 1964
Jasper Johns Flag 1954-5
The Small Figure 3 1960
Claes Oldenberg U.S.A. Flag 1960
Giant Soft Fan - Ghost Version 1967
Roy Lichtenstein Blam 1962
M-Maybe (A Girl's Picture) 1965
James Rosenquist Flower Garden 1961
Andy Warhol Marilyn Diptich 1962
Silver Disaster: Electric Chair 1963
16 Jackies 1964
 

4/13 Art Without an Object, Fluxus, and the Roots of International Conceptualism
Yves Klein Blue Monochrome (IKB 83) 1960
Anthropometries of the Blue Period 1960
La Monte Young Piano Piece for David Tudor  1960
Nam June Paik Zen For Head 1962
Yoko Ono Cut Piece 1964
Robert Morris Installation at the Green Gallery 1963
Sol Lewitt Untitled, Wall Drawing 1993
Joseph Kosuth The First Investigation, Titled (Art as Idea as Idea), (meaning) 1967
Hans Haacke Shapolsky et al., Manhattan Real Estate Holdings 1971
 

4/15 Color-Field Painting & Minimalism
Ad Reinhardt Red Abstract 1952
Morris Louis Alpha Tau 1961
Illumination 1962
Helen Frankenthaler Island Weather II 1963
Kenneth Noland Across 1964
David Smith Man and Woman in the Cathedral 1956
Anthony Caro Early One Morning 1962
Frank Stella Die Fahne Hoch! (The Flag High!) 1959
George Segal Cinema 1963
Dan Flavin Untitled 1964-74
Carl Andre Equivalent VIII 1966
Donald Judd Untitled 1965
Untitled 1989
Eva Hesse Metronymic Irregularity I 1966
Ditto 1967
Accretion 1968
Agnes Martin Untitled #12 1984
 

4/20 Performance, Process, Sculpture & Land Art
Edward Kienholz Backseat Dodge '38 1964
The Portable War Memorial 1968
Bruce Conner The Child 1959-60
Black Dahlia 1960
Bruce Nauman Self-Portrait as Fountain 1966
Giovanni Anselmo Untitled 1968
Jannis Kounellis Untitled 1967
Joseph Beuys Fat Chair 1963
Richard Serra One Ton Prop (House of Cards) 1969
Stacks 1990
 
4/22 Last Lecture
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty 1970
Cauvga Salt Mine Project 1969
Walter de Maria New York Earth Room 1977
The Lightening Field, New Mexico 1977
Gordon Matta-Clark Day's End (photo of building 'cutting') 1976
Gerhard Richter Vogel 1982
Confrontation #3 1988
Anselm Kiefer To the Unknown Painter 1983
Martha Rosler The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptions 1974-75
 

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