DES•201 Art History

Lecture Outline

Precision and Ambiguity

Photography, American Modernism, Dada and Surrealism c.1900 to c.1940

  1. Pictorial and Straight Photography
    1. Peter Henry Emerson
    2. Robert Demachy
    3. Frederick H. Evans
    4. Edward Steichen
    5. Alfred Stiegltiz
    6. Paul Strand
    7. Edward Weston
    8. Ansel Adams
  2. American Modernism
    1. Masden Hartley
    2. Arthur Dove
    3. Joseph Stella
    4. Charles Demuth
    5. Charles Sheeler
    6. Georgia O'Keefe
  3. Social Realism & Regionalism
    1. Walker Evans
    2. Dorothea Lange
    3. Ben Shahn
    4. Jacob Lawrence
  4. Regionalism & Realism
    1. Grant Wood
    2. Thomas Hart Benon
    3. Edward Hopper
  5. Dada
    1. Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball
    2. Marcel Duchamp
    3. Raoul Hausmann
    4. Hannah Höch
    5. Kurt Schwitters
    6. John Heartfield
  6. Metaphysics and Surrealism
    1. Georgio de Chirico
    2. Max Ernst
    3. René Magritte
    4. Meret Oppenheim
    5. Man Ray
    6. Salvador Dali
    7. Joan Miro
    8. Paul Klee
    9. Constantin Brâncusi
    10. Alexander Calder
  7. Picasso between the wars

Pictorial photography

gum-bichomate

Straight photography

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The Steerage by Stieglitz

Equivalent

Portrait of a German Officer by Hartley

Precisionism

Migrant Mother by Lange

American Gothic by Wood

Nighthawks by Hopper

Readymades

Fountain by Duchamp

Cut with the Kitchen Knife by Höch

Merz

Helmut Herzfelde

frottage

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street by de Chirico

The Treachery... of Images by Magritte

Rayogram

solarization

The Persistence of Memory by Dali

automatism

Guernica by Picasso