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modern art readings

Terms in this set (15)

marinetti
futurist manifesto
simultaneity, dynamism, speed
Weird story-telling quality/imagery
Italian nationalism, anti-museum, youths and the future

danger/fearlessness/audacity/revolt/poetry/feverish/insomnia/speed(cars)/fervour/struggle/aggression/riot
Gabo and pevsner
Value of formal constructive aims, refusal of physical and utilitarian
Written like a poem

Renounce pictorial color, volume, descriptive line, sculptural mass, static rhythm
Affirm tone, line as direction/rhythm, depth, kinetic rhythms
silver
Postwar France, moral unity
"In its origins purism is anything but pure"

Great war/France/devastated/purism
Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Jeanneret
loos
Decoration is primitive; wasteful of time and resources. Easier to have an undecorated object for the laborer's and consumers sake. Compares decoration to Papau New Guinean "savage" nature due to fondness of intricate decoration/ornament.
mondrian
Art through all 5 senses
Needs color and line but not object
Universal beauty v. personal expression
Balance objective and subjective

"art is fundamentally everywhere and always the same"
Le corbusier
A house is a machine for living in
Architects need to step it up
wright
House = human body metaphor
Buildings should complement nature
Modernistic houses look like cardboard

box/complementary/nature/machinery
chadwick
Women in surrealism

muse
femme-enfant
downs
Diego rivera's mural project
Detroit institute of arts
gibson
Jackson pollock or normal lewis
Subject / object
huyssen
Pop art as new art of the people
"liberation"
critics/nonart/everyday life/social criticism
greenberg
Modernist painting
Technical changes in art
Self-critical (Kant)
Flatness/limitations
taylor
Avant-garde and after: rethinking art now
Alternatives to modernism
New women's art, performance art, conceptual art
krauss
Surprising things are being called sculptures
Philosophical definitions of sculpture
Universe not held together by Mind
Minimal sculpture, constructivism

sculpture/logic/rules/criticism/term/medium
levin
Looking at the shift from Modernism to Postmodernism, trying to define the two, a return to the self and to nature, impurity, how to separate late modernism with postmodernism, the social/political/economic factors
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