1. Unites States Between the Wars WWI - WWII Social Realism versus Abstraction Abstraction (Individualism) –European immigrants –Armory Show 1913 –Alfred Barr, Alfred Stieglitz, Joseph Levy –MOMA –Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism Social realism (Masses) –New Deal (Roosevelt) –WPA –Depression, Fascism, Communism Jazz Age (Harlem Renaissance) –Alain Locke –Revival of African forms

2. Social Causes Jacob Riis, 5 Cents a Spot, 1889 Documentary Photography Lower East Side, NY “How the Other Half Lives”

3. Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, 1933 Great Depression WPA Pictorial Straight

4. American Social Realist Painting George Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913 “Ashcan School” Robert Henri The Eight Real/Modern Poor Man’s Impressionism

5. John Sloan, Backyards, Greenwich Village, 1914 Ash Can School Lower Classes New York Tenement Apts.

6. Bellows, Boxing at Sharkey’s, 1901 Snap shots of the everyday

7. Regionalists Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930 Iowa Dentist and Sister Dutch/Puritan Gothic Iconography? “Americana”

8. Wood, Young Corn, 1931 Regionalist Modernist Landscape

9. Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930 N.Y. Psyche of City

10. Edward Hopper, Carolina Morning,1955 Muted colors Capture a mood Isolation Loneliness Anxiety boredom

11. Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942 Muted colors Capture a mood Isolation loneliness Anxiety boredom

12. Hopper, Room in New York, 1942

13. Thomas Hart Benton, City Building, (American Today Series), 1930 Regionalism American Worker Caricature

14. Benton, The Art of the West, 1932 American West Masculinity “American Hero”

15. John Sloan, Backyards, Greenwich Village, 1914 Ash Can School Lower Classes New York Tenement Apts. Poor Man’s Impressionism

16. Aaron Douglas, Aspects of Negro Life, From Slavery through Reconstruction, 1934 Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age Alain Locke (philosopher) Recover African forms in art Geometric Symbolism

17. Noah’s Ark, 1927 In an African Setting, 1934

18. Jacob Lawrence, No. 1, From the Migration of the Negro Series, 1940-41 Post-slavery migration north. Series Hard edge

19. Motley, Black Belt, 1934, The Nightlife, 1943 Chicago’s South Side Black Experience Psychedelic colors

20. American Modernism Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907 291 Gallery “Straight Photography” Balance of shapes and forms

21. Stieglitz, 5th Avenue, 1910 “Pictorial Photography”

22. Imogen Cunningham, Two Callas, 1939 San Francisco Straight photography Pictorial f.64 Gallery (camera f-stop)

23. Cunningham, Datura, n.d., Three Vegetables, n.d.

24. American Modernism Georgia O’Keefe Jack in the Pulpit IV, 1920’s Records flowers Precisionism (style) –Essence of Object –Sharp lines –Intense & pure color Misinterpretations

25. O’Keefe Black Iris, 1924 Music in Pink and Blue, 1923

26. Radiator Building, Night, NY, 1927 City Night, 1926

27. Mardsen Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914 Armory Show European Influence Independence War Motif Series (12) Berlin Friend/Lover Karl von Freyburg Fragments Individual iconography

28. Hartley, Still Life, 1911 / Chinese Sea Horse, 1941

29. DADA c. 1913-1925, Marcel Duchamp, Urinal (Fountain), 1917(1950) Response to WWI. Tristian Tziara & Hugo Ball French = hobby horse; Rumanian = yes Zurich, Paris, Germany, New York. Nonsense, no manifesto State of mind ANTI-ART OBJECTS –Readymade/Already made –Loses functionality AUTOMATISM Chance Choice End result of contradiction

30. Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even (large glass), 1915-23 New York Dada Alfred Stieglitz 291 gallery Circulatory systems “mechanamorphic” Chance

31. Surrealism Surrealism Paris, 1922. International in 1936. Andre Breton: Manifesto (associated with dada) Born out of a desire for positive action. Myths Primitivism Dream Analysis Chance Choice (Free association) Spontaneous Action Metonymy (metonimic)

32. Rene Magritte, The Human Condition, 1928 Poststructuralism Sarte, Benjamin Painting as Representation Reality as representation

33. Magritte, The Treachery (of perfidy) of Image, 1928-29 “This is not a pipe” Reality/ Representation

34. Joseph Cornell Untitled (The Hotel Eden), 1945 Shadow Boxes –12-20” Surrealism –Julian Levy Gallery Assemblage Discarded objects Nostalgia Random Juxtaposition Search for the self Caged Bird: sublimation, memory, and peace.

35. Cornell, Habitat Group for Shooting Gallery, 1943 / Solar Set, 1958

36. Cornell, Toward the Blue Peninsula, 1953 Nostalgia Mystery Fantasy

37. Cornell, Untitled (Medici Princess), 1948 / Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall), 1942

38. Isamu Noguchi, Kouros, 1944-5 / Remembrance 1981 Biomorphic Surrealism Constantin Brancusi Zen Contemplation of parts of the whole

39. 20th Century Sculpture Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1925 The Newborn, 1915

40. Brancusi and Noguchi

41. Noguchi, Kouros / Greek Kouros

42. Noguchi, Water Garden, 1963 Japanese Zen Garden Reflection/ Contemplation Industry/ Nature

43. Water garden (details)