from modernism to post-modernism · robert venturi and denise scott brown: learning from las vegas,...
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minimalism: the art work enters the real world even as it maintains its difference; the art work challenges space and the spectator and denies the
presence of inner content
Pop art: real life enters the art work; the art work enters real lifea confusion of reality and illusion/fantasy
Abstract Expressionism: the art work becomes an environment; thepresence of the artist is central as the artist "lives" in the process of making the
art work
From Modernism to Post-Modernism
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Rosenquist: President Elect, 1960 (oil on fiberboard, 84 x 146")
Richard Hamilton: Just what is it about today's homes that makes
them so appealing? (1956)
E. Paolozzi: I Was a Rich Man's Plaything, 1947
Neo-Dada of the Sixties?
The Pop Art Tendency
A postmodern paradigm:
art as a commitment to the unknowable or uncertainty
inconstancy of form-->formlessness:confusion of boundaries of media, of real and unreal,
of the original and the copy the disguised or fragmented human body
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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown:Learning from Las Vegas, or is there such a thing as Pop Architecture?
Smoker #9, 1973 (83 x 89"; oil on canvas)
Great American Nude #28, 1962 (48 x 66")
Great American Nude #6, 1961 (48 x 48")
Bathtub Collage #3, 1963 (84 x 106 x 20")
Still Life #31, 1963 (oil, collage, working t.v., 48 x 60"
Wesselmann: Still Life #20, 1962 (collage, assemblage, wood, bulb, sink, 46 x 48")
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Warhol: Popeye, 1960
Roy Lichtenstein: Hopeless, 1963
Dick Tracy, 1960 (casein, crayon, canvas)
Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein: Denial of the self in the name of
mechanical reproduction?
Goofy's Gas in Mickey's Toontown, 1993
Michael Graves: Team Disney Building, Burbank, 1990
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown: Guild House (in Philadelphia), 1960-63
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Do-It-Yourself (Flowers), 1962 (synthetic polymer and prestype on
canvas, 69 x 59")
Eddie diptych (two panels, 44 x
52")
Takka Takka, 1962 (magnum on canvas, 68
x 48")
Lichtenstein's Hopeless and the original source (comic by Tony
Abruzzo, Secret Hearts
Telephone, 1963; (below): ad for Bell Telephone, from
1928
Before and After (1960-1; version one -left; version 2, right-- synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas)
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Vacation Get-Away
"Giacometti" on the left; untitled on the right
the "dis"illusionment of Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home: The House Beautiful Series (1965-72;
original montages - reprinted in color in 1991)
Orange Disaster, 1963 (110 x 82")
Marilyn diptych, 1962; silkscreen ink, synthetic polymer on canvas, 82x114"
100 Soup Cans, 1962 (82 x 52")
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