Modern Visual Culture, 1945-Present
Professor Elaine A. King

Assignments & Announcements

Archive of Lectures

 

Realism / Regional Realism / Social Realism

  • Edward Hopper
  • Thomas Benton
  • Grant Wood
  • Diego Rivera
  • Frida Kahlo
  • Jose Clemente Orozco
  • Alfaro Siqueiros
  • Hans Hoffman
  • Arshile Gorky
  • Roberto Echuarren, Matta

 

Pop Art / New Realist Sculpture

  • Jim Dine
  • Robert Indiana
  • James Rosenquist
  • Roy Lichtenstein
  • Tom Wesselman
  • Louise Nevelson
  • Lucas Samaras
  • Lee Bontiecou
  • Edward Kienholz

New York School / Abstract Expressionism

  • Willem DeKooning
  • Franz Kline
  • Jackson Pollack
  • Lee Kraser
  • Barnett Newman
  • Mark Rothko
  • Adoph Gottlieb
  • Robert Motherwell
  • Clifford Still
  • Ad Reinhardt

 

Hard-Edge Painting / Minimalism

  • Ellsworth Kelly
  • Robert Irwin
  • Larry Bell
  • Frank Stella
  • Robert Morris
  • Agnes Martin
  • Robert Ryman
  • Dorothea Rockburne
  • Tony Smith
  • Donald Judd
  • Ronald Bladen
  • Sol le Witt
  • Carl Andre

 

American Sculpture and Europe in the 1950s

  • Alexander Calder
  • Stuart Davis
  • Fernand Leger
  • David Smith
  • Isamu Noguchi
  • Joseph Cornell
  • Karel Appel
  • Pierre Alechinsky
  • Alberto Giacometti
  • Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski)
  • Jean DuBuffet
  • Francis Bacon

 

Minimalism & Conceptual Art

  • Eva Hesse
  • Joseph Kosuth
  • Hans Haacke
  • Richard Long
  • Bruce Nauman
  • Joseph Beuys
  • Mel Bochner
  • Dorothea Rockburne
  • John Baldessari
  • Laurie Anderson

Post Painterly Abstraction / Neo-DADA Into Pop

  • Helen Frankenthaler
  • Morris Louis
  • Kenneth Noland
  • Elaine DeKooning
  • Yves Klein
  • Richard Hamilton
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Larry Rivers
  • Robert Rauschenberg
  • Jasper Johns
  • Andy Warhol

 

New Realism & Figuration

  • Georg Baselitz
  • Francisco Clemente
  • Chuck Close
  • Richard Estes
  • Leon Golub
  • Anslem Kiefer
  • Robert Longo
  • Gerhard Richter

Installation and Performance

  • Vito Acconci
  • Jackie Winsor
  • Chris Burden
  • Rebecca Horn
  • Allan Kaprow
  • Carsten Holler
  • George Segal
  • Joseph Beuys
  • Robert Rauschenberg
  • Yves Klein

Earthworks

  • Robert Smithson
  • Nancy Holt
  • Robert Morris
  • Walter De Maria
  • Richard Long
  • Michael Heizer
  • James Turrell
  • Mary Miss
  • Gordon Matta Clark
  • Magdelena Jetelova

Current

  • Janine Antoni
  • Jean Michel Basquiat
  • Christian Boltanski
  • Mark Dion
  • David Humphrey
  • Sarah Lucas
  • Olafur Eliasson
  • Eric Fischl
  • Alfredo Jaar
  • Won Ju Lim
  • Do-Ho Suh
  • Christopher Wool
  • Kerry James Marshall

Feminism

  • Ida Applebroog
  • Mary Beth Edelson
  • Barbara Kruger
  • Cindy Sherman
  • Martha Rosler
  • Sue Williams
  • Sophie Calle
  • Adrian Piper
  • Catherine Opie
  • Shirin Neshat
  • Ana Mendieta

Assignments & Announcements


Required Books:
- Art Since 1940, Strategies of Being, Jonathan Fineberg, Prentice Hall Press.
- Themes of Contemporary Art, Edited by Gill Perry and Paul Wood, Yale Press

Announcements:

  • PLEASE ATTEND ALL OF THE SCHOOL OF ART LECTURE SERIES. SEE POSTER
  • Go to as many exhibitions in and around Pittsburgh.
  • The School of Art is organizing two special art trips during the spring term:
    1. To Washington, DC
    2. To New York City
EXAMS:
  • February 28: Mid-Term review sheet handed out
  • March 8 Mid-Term Exam
Questions about the course can be sent to Prof. King