ART428: 20th Century Art History

Summer 2010   --    Prof. Roann Barris

office: 213 Powell; class meeting times: M - Th 10:30 - 12:45; location TBA

email: rbarris@radford.edu

Link to the class syllabus

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1. Picasso, symbolism and Parade

2. Cubism: general overview

3. Cubism, part 2

4. "Other Cubisms"

5. Cubism and Related Styles

IMAGE GROUP #1: ESSENTIAL IMAGES FOR PICASSO AND CUBISM

IMAGE GROUP 1A (CUBISM AND RELATED STYLES -- SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PEOPLE WORKING ON QUESTION 2)

POWER POINT ASSIGNMENT #1 (note: the examples below will open as pdfs)

6. Kandinsky's Path to Abstraction

6a. Excerpts from writings by Kandinsky

IMAGE GROUP 2: KANDINSKY

POWER POINT ASSIGNMENT #2

IMAGE GROUPS 3 AND 4

7. Mondrian's Progression

8. Malevich's Progression

POWER POINT #2 (two examples we didn't see in class)

9. Fauvism (and Matisse before 1910)

10. Dada

POWER POINT #3 [ON THE FIGURE IN 20TH CENTURY ART]

Alfred Barr's Chart of Abstraction

11. Paula Modersohn-Becker and Kaethe Kollwitz

The next set of units contains discussions of figural directions in art, some of which developed specifically in response to abstract expressionism and some of which developed independently of abstract expressionism (either because they developed in Europe and/or they developed prior to the emergence of ab. ex. (in the late 1940s). Philip Guston embodies several directions in his own career, which began before abstract expressionism, was influenced by that movement, and then took a different direction in the 1970s.

12. The Return of the Repressed

12a. Other Figural Directions

12c. Philip Guston

POWER POINT #3: TWO EXEMPLARS

Image Groups 5 and 6

Power Point #4 assignment

13. De Kooning's Dislocation of History

14. Recap of Lecture on Sculptural Modernism [note that the tiny orange boxes contain the text portion --slide your mouse over the little box and you'll see the text]

15. Louise Bourgeois

16. Minimalism

Image Group and Readings for this week

17. Abstract Expressionism: Overview of Critical Ideas

17a. Pollock's Spontaneity

17b. Mark Rothko

18. Post-Abstract Expressionism (an overview of abstraction and figural developments)

FINAL PROJECT REQUIREMENTS