Lecture Day Reading: Art Bridging Time, Bridging Cultures

Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Gates, New York City, Central Park

Christo. The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City. 2003. 15 x 96 in. and 42 x 96 in.

Torii gates, Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Japan, eighth century.

Yayoi Kusama. You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies. 2005.

Magical figure, nkisi nkonde. Late nineteenth century. height 20 in.

Pablo Picasso, Medical Student, Sailor, and Five Nudes in a Bordello Black and White

Pablo Picasso. Study for Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Pablo Picasso. Study for Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Head of the Squatting Demoiselle. 1907. 24 3/4 x 18 7/8 in.

Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. 1907. 8 ft. x 7 ft. 8 in.

Height of entire sculpture 7 ft. 4 in. Apollo Belvedere (detail). Roman copy after a fourth-century BCE Greek original. Height of entire sculpture 7 ft. 4 in.

African mask, Sang tribe.

Edouard Manet. Luncheon on the Grass (Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe). 1863. 7 ft. x 8 ft. 10 in. (2.13 x 2.6 m).

Marcantonio Raimondi. The Judgment of Paris (detail). c. 1488–1530. Clipped impression, Plate line 11 5⁄8 x 17 1⁄4 in.

Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2. 1912. 58 x 35 in.

Etienne-Jules Marey. Man Walking in Black Suit with White Stripe Down Sides. 1883.

Maya Ying Lin. Vietnam Memorial. 1982. length 492 ft.

Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. April 1970. 3 1/2 ft. x 15 ft. x 1,500 ft.

Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty, as it appeared in August 2003.

Great Serpent Mound. Hopewell culture, c. 600 BCE–200 CE. Length approximately 1,254 ft.

Nancy Holt. Sun Tunnels, Great Basin Desert, Utah (four showing) Four tunnels, each 18 ft. long x 9 ft. 4 in. in diameter; each axis 86 ft. long.

Nancy Holt. Sun Tunnels, Great Basin Desert, Utah (one front view) Four tunnels, each 18 ft. long x 9 ft. 4 in. in diameter; each axis 86 ft. long.

Karen McCoy. Considering Mother’s Mantle. 1992.

Karen McCoy. Considering Mother’s Mantle, detail. 1992.