ARTH 4813 (Post-Modernism) Final Study Guide

Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1957–59

Le Corbusier, Unité d’Habitation, Marseilles, France, 1947–52, International Style Architecture

• houses lower income workers, apartment

• 1st floor is a convenience store

• Everyone gets the same new modern thing

Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, Seagram Building, New York, 1958

Philip Johnson, Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949

Oscar Niemeyer, Palace of the Dawn, Brasília, Brazil, 1959, International Architecture (?)

• functional columns

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1965, Minimalism

• early (best known) series, all about industry

• Repetitive, galvanized steel, perfect

• On a wall, not a painting; 3D, not a sculpture

Robert Morris, Untitled (Floor Beam), 1964

Sol LeWitt, Sculpture Series “A,” 1967, Minimalism

• repetition of square shapes, have to walk around it

• Coins conceptual art, work foregrounds idea behind the piece

Carl Andre, 37 Pieces of Work, 1969, Minimalism

• 36 sections, 37th is the work as a whole

• Allowed to talk on them

Agnes Martin, Night Sea, 1963, Minimalism (?)

• can there be a minimalist painting?

• Painted precise blue rectangles on gold leaf

• Meditative project, studying philosophy

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Batcolumn, 1977

Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, Federal Plaza, New York, NY, 1981, removed 1989, Public Art

• 106 ton sheet of Cor-Ten steel (hot rolled sheet), designed to flash rust on its surface

• Serra worked in a steel manufacturing plant

• Veiled threat- illusion the arc will fall

• Commissioned by the GSA, in front of social security administration building

• People don’t like it, have to walk all the way around, said it’s ugly, attracting graffiti, someone could be hiding behind it with intent to harm people

• 3k+ signed petition to have it removed, judge deemed it wasn’t public art, imposes artists individual vision onto the public

• One city wanted it but Serra said it was site specific (meaning depends on location)

Maya Ying Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982

Rachel Whitread, Nameless Library, 2000

Chuck Close, Linda, 1975-76

Richard Estes, Bus Reflections, (Ansonia), 1972

Audrey Flack, Wheel of Fortune, 1977-78, Photorealism

Duane Hanson, Tourists, 1970

Alice Neel, Andy Warhol, 1970

Miriam Schapiro, Black Bolero, 1980

Joyce Kozloff, Mural for Harvard Square Subway Station, New England Decorative

Arts, 1984

Susan Rothenberg, Pontiac, 1979

Neil Jenney, Meltdown Morning, 1975

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965

John Baldessari, “Art History,” from the book Ingres and Other Parables, 1971

Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965

Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975

Ana Mendieta, Untitled, from the Fetish series, 1977

Chris Burden, Shoot, 1971

Gilbert and George, The Singing Sculpture (“Underneath the Arches”), 1969

Laurie Anderson, United States, Part II, October 1980. Performance at the Orpheum

Theater, New York

Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1965

Feminist Arts Program, Womanhouse (detail of linen closet), 1971.

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-79

Guerilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988. Poster

OBAC (Organization of Black American Culture), Wall of Respect, 1967

Wadsworth Jarrell, Revolutionary, 1971

Faith Ringgold, Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? 1983

Robert Colescott, George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an

American History Textbook, 1975

Robert Morris, Untitled, 1967–68. Felt, size variable

Eva Hesse, Contingent, 1969

Michael Heizer, Double Negative, 1969-70

Walter de Maria, Lightning Field, 1970-77

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1969-70

Nancy Holt, Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings, 1977–78. Brown Mountain stone.

Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington

Richard Long, A Line in Ireland, 1974. Framed work consisting of photography and text

James Turrell, Roden Crater Project, begun 1974

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981

Sherrie Levine, After Piet Mondrian, 1983

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35, 1979

Robert Venturi, Chestnut Hill House, Philadelphia, PA, 1962

Charles Moore with U.I.G. and Perez Associates, Inc., Piazza d’Italia, 1975–80. New

Orlean

Philip Johnson and John Burgee, AT&T Headquarters Building, New York, NY, 1978-87

Pei, Grand Louvre Pyramid, Paris, 1988

Cesar Pelli Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, 1998

Georg Baselitz, The Brücke Choir, 1983

Gerhard Richter, Vase, 1984

Anselm Kiefer, Breaking of the Vessels, 1990

Julian Schnabel, The Sea, 1981

Peter Halley, Two Cells with Circulating Conduit, 1985

Keith Haring, Untitled, “One-Man Show,” installation view, 1982

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grillo, 1984

David Wojnarowicz, Fire, 1987

Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988

Andres Serrano, Piss Christ, 1987