1. Contextual Studies 8 Materials & Technology

2. The Apostles, 13 th century, Chartres Cathedral

3. Donatello, David with Head of Goliath, c.1420s

4. Canova, Paulina Bonaparte Borghese, 1805-8

5. Froud, Arc de Triumphe, 1883-6

6. Rodin, St John the Baptist, 1878Aston Webb, Queen Victoria, 1911

7. Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises, 1910

8. Giacomi Balla, Dog on a leash, 1912Balla, Abstract speed and sound, 1913/14

9. Balla, Mercury Passing Before the Sun as Seen Through a Telescope, 1914

10. Boccioni, Dynamism of a Woman, 1914

11. How is it possible to see the human face pink now that our life, redoubled by noctambulism, has multiplied our perceptions as colourists? The human face is yellow, red, green, blue, violet. Boccioni, ‘Manifesto on Painting’ in Art in Theory, p 151

12. Umberto Boccioni, Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture, (1912) 1.Achieve an abstract reconstruction of planes and volumes in order to determine form of sculpture and not figurative value. 2. Abolish in sculpture as in all other art the TRADITIONAL ‘SUBLIME’ IN SUBJECT MATTER. 3. …any Futurist sculptural composition will contain planes of wood or metal, either motionless or in mechanical motion… 4. Destroy the literary and traditional ‘dignity’ of marble and bronze statues….Refuse to accept the exclusive nature of a single material in the construction of a sculptural whole. Insist that even twenty different types of materials can be used…To mention a few examples: glass, wood, cardboard, iron, cement, hair, leather, cloth, mirrors, electric lights, etc. 5. Maintain that in the intersecting planes of a book and a corner of a table, in the straight lines of a match… there is more truth than in all the knotted muscles, all the breasts and buttocks of heroes and Venuses…

13. Balla, Coloured plastic complex, 1914-5 Boccioni, Horse and Rider and House, 1914

14. Boccioni, Interpretation of head with window, 1911-2 Boccioni, Head and House and light, 1912, various materials

15. Boccioni, Development of Bottle in Space, 1912-3 Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

16. Josef Albers, ‘On my Glass Wall Paintings’ (1933) these glass wall paintings represent a new kind of picture that is significantly determined by the material (glass) and its technical treatment (patterned cutting, double-layered sand-blasting). the brittleness of the material and the colour, which cannot be modulated, limit the range of shapes, but also provide a special colour intensity… our own age with its interest in technology, clearly displays this interest in ‘material’. the fact that the double-layered paintings are produced according to a precise method generates the possibility of repeating them precisely. consequently the paintings need not remain unique. here, as in graphic art or plastic moulds, the larger edition will reduce the costs of manufacture, and avert the snobbish interest in the unique single work.

17. Josef Albers, Pergola, 1925 Josef Albers, Beaker, 1929

18. Josef Albers, Flying, 1931 Josef Albers, Cables, 1931

19. Noam Gabo, Monument for Physics Observatory, 1922 Antoine Pevsner

20. Varvara Stepanova, Textile design, 1924 Lapsina, Electric Light Bulb, textile, late 1920s

21. Liubov Popova, Dress, 1924

22. Stepanova, Workwear, 1924

23. Stepanova, Sportswear,1923

24. Alexander Rodchenko, Photomontage for Moscow publisher, 1924

25. Rodchenko, Point Composition Black, 1920 Rodchenko, Untitled, 1920

26. Rodchenko and Stepanova (1920s)

27. G. Klutis, Project for newspaper kiosk, 1922, Vesnin, Stage set 1923, Stepanova, Stage set,1922

28. Stepanova, Design for event The Evening of the Book, 1924

29. Vladimir Tatlin, Stage set for Zangezi,1923

30. Tatlin, Relief, iron, plaster, glass, tar, 1914 Tatlin, Corner-counter Relief, iron, aluminium, primer, 1915

31. Tatlin, Working clothing and stove, 1918-19 Tatlin, chair, 1927

32. Tatlin, Monument to the Third International, 1919-20

33. Reading for 24/11: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Abstract of an Artist, (New York, George Wittenborn,1947) p79-80 Marcel Duchamp, ‘Statement’ (1961) in Dore Ashton(ed.), 20 th Century Artists on Art, (New York,Pantheon,1985) p21-22 These texts will be on Moodle for you to print out