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DES•201 Art History

Lecture Outline

America Takes the Lead

Art and Design , c. 1940–1980

  1. The New York School (Abstract Expressionism)
    1. Arshile Gorky
    2. Jackson Pollock
    3. Willem de Kooning
    4. Robert Motherwell
    5. Mark Rothko
    6. Helen Frankenthaler
    7. Paul Jenkins
    8. Ellworth Kelly
    9. Frank Stella
  2. European Postwar Expressionism
    1. Jean Debuffet
    2. Francis Bacon
    3. Yves Klein
  3. Postwar Sculpture
    1. Alberto Giacometti
    2. David Smith
    3. Louise Nevelson
    4. Louise Bourgeois
  4. Pop Art
    1. Richard Hamilton
    2. Jasper Johns
    3. Robert Rauschenberg
    4. Roy Lichtenstein
    5. Andy Warhol
    6. Robert Indiana, Mel Ramos, and Wayne Theibaud
    7. Claes Oldenburg
  5. Op Art & Supperealism
    1. Victor Vasalery
    2. Richard Anuszkiewicz
    3. Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Jerry Ott
    4. Duane Hanson
  6. American Graphic Design
    1. Lester Beall
    2. Paul Rand
    3. Alvin Lustig
    4. Saul Bass
    5. Editorial Design (Liberman, Pineles & Brodovitch)
    6. Richard Avedon
    7. Doyle Dane Bernbach
    8. George Lois
    9. Herb Lubalin
  1. Revival: Push Pin
    1. Seymour Chwast
    2. Milton Glaser
    3. Barry Zair
    4. Paul Davis & David Flance Goines
  2. Psychedelic
    1. Wes Wilson
    2. Victor Moscoso

 

Action painting

totems

Colorfield painting

Post-painterly abstraction

Hard Edge

Minimalism

L'art Brut

encaustic

combines