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Art H 386X Final
Final Exam
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
04/30/2011

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Macbeth Gallery
Definition
First gallery dedicated to display and sale of American Art
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The Eight
Definition

Eight main artists of the Ashcan School

 

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The Ashcan School
Definition

is defined as a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.

 

Included "The Eight"

wanted to liken painting to journalism

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The Masses
Definition

Communist magazine, socialist work for social magazine

praised by Ashcan School

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Jack Johnson
Definition

first black heavyweight champ

jim jeffreys challeneged him, johnson won

race riots ensued

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Yellow Journalism
Definition

Named from the color of newsprint that was used during the time period

little to no actual news presented

sensationalist journalism

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Progressivism
Definition

a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action

opposed to fear of immigrants

anti child labor

created public school system so immigrant children could learn

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How the Other Half Lives, 1890
Definition
Publication by photojournalist Jacob Riis dipicting gritty underbelly of city slums.
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Ethical Culture/Ethical Culture School
Definition

Progressivist school

taught immigrant children nature studies

alternate to religion

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The National Child Labor Committee
Definition
hired Hines to help bring child labor into the spot light so it could be abolished
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Time Exposures
Definition

photomontage posters for the NCLC.

one of them was bringing to light how they forged work certificates so they could work

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The Survey
Definition
Hine's work was published here and that is where he was discovered by the NCLC
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Men at Work, 1932
Definition

Hine's book that celebrated adult labor

showed man controlling machines

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Camera Work
Definition

Book by Alfred Steigletz

expensive because it had high quality prints

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Pictorialism
Definition
photographs emilating painting to be regarded as high art
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The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession
Definition
Art Gallery 291
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The International Exhibition of Modern Art
Definition

1914 Armory Show

1300 pieces

lots of critical response

increased audience for modern art

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Readymade
Definition
something already made
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Dada
Definition

nihilist philosophy started in switzerland after wwi

as response to the war

anti master piece and that art shouldn't make sense

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Surrealism
Definition

An offshoot Dada

interested in Freudian philosophy and dreams

wanted to be more purposeful and less experimental

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Edsel Ford
Definition
Ford's son who hired Diego Rivera to paint that mural
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Coit Tower
Definition

honoring san fransisco fire fighters

political murals created

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New Negro Art Movement
Definition

Harlem Rennaisance

Afro American perspective on art

inspired by W.E.B. Dubois and Alan Locke

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Alain Locke
Definition
said you should look at Africa for cultural roots
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W.E.B. Dubois
Definition
Inspired Harlem Rennaisance
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New Deal
Definition

FDR created government funded jobs to stimulate economy

art was a major element within the New Deal

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Work Progress Administration
Definition
WPA
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Farm Secuirty Administration
Definition
FSA- gave money to farmers
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James Agee
Definition

Friends with Walker Evans

writer for Fortune Magazine

worked with Walker Evans at the Burroughs Family

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Definition
the book that Walker Evans and James Agee made together
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Precisionism
Definition

Precise 

Detailed

Realistic

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Regionalism
Definition

anti-modernism

what constitutes american art

turns away from europe and urban environments

not always positive towards rural

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Office of War Administration
Definition

FSA was absorbed into it

showed American dream?

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Norman Rockwell, The Four Freedoms
Definition

Showing Want Fear Freedom and Speech

end of New Deal

OWI commissioned posters

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