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Art History: 1945 - 1960
Post WWII art history, covering Abstract Expressionism, Modernism, Fluxus, etc.
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04/26/2013

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Term
Abstract Expressionism
Definition
When: 1940s-1950s
Where: New York
Who: Pollock, Krasner, Motherwell, de Kooning, Rothko,
Newman
Critic: Greenberg, Rosenberg

Key
Terms: Modernism, Abstraction, gesture, allover, medium-
specificity, avant-garde
Term
Art Informel
Definition
When: 1940s-1950s
Where: France
Who: Fautrier, Wols, Dubuffet

Key
Terms: Formlessness
Term
Post-Painterly Abstraction
Definition
When: 1950s-1960s
Where: New York
Who: Frankenthaler, Louis, Noland
Critic: Greenberg

Key
Terms: Modernism, flatness, opticality, self-criticism,
autonomy
Term
Neo-Dada
Definition
When: 1950s
Where: New York
Who: Rauschenberg, Johns
Critic: Duchamp

Key
Terms: Anti-Modernism, combine, ambiguity
Term
The Independent Group
Definition
When: 1950s
Where: England
Who: Paolozzi, Hamilton

Key
Terms: Collage
Term
New Realism
Definition
When: 1950s-1960s
Where: France
Who: Arman, Klein
Critic: Restany

Key
Terms: Immateriality, avant-garde
Term
Happenings
Definition
When: 1950s-1960s
Where: New York
Who: Kaprow, Dine
Critic: Kaprow

Key
Terms: Happening, Environment
Term
Gutai
Definition
When: 1950s
Where: Japan
Who: Shiraga

Key
Terms: Action
Term
Fluxus
Definition
When: 1960s
Where: Germany, New York
Who: Nam June Paik, Maciunas, Ono, Beuys
Critic: Maciunas

Key
Terms: Chance, event, score, multiple, avant-garde
Term
Pop Art
Definition
When: 1960s
Where: New York, Los Angeles
Who: Oldenburg, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Ruscha, Kienholz


Key
Terms: Consumer culture, assemblage, simulacrum,
referentiality
Term
Minimalism
Definition
When: 1960s
Where: New York, Los Angeles
Who: Stella, Morris, Judd, Andre, Flavin, LeWitt, Martin
Critic: Morris, Judd, Fried

Key
Terms: Gestalt, specific objects
Term
Anti-Form
Definition
When: 1960s-1970s
Where: New York
Who: Morris, Hesse, Bourgeois, Kusama, Serra
Critic: Morris

Key
Terms: Process
Term
Land Art
Definition
When: 1960s-1970s
Where: New York, the West
Who: Smithson, De Maria, Heizer, Christo and Jeanne
Claude
Critic: Smithson

Key
Terms: Site/Non-Site
Term
[image]
Definition

Jackson Pollock

One (Number 31, 1950)

1950

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Lee Krasner

White Squares

c. 1948

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Robert Motherwell

At Five in the Afternoon

1949

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Willem de Kooning

Woman I

1950-2

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Mark Rothko

Number 3/No. 13. (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange)

1949

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

Barnett Newman

Vir Heroicus Sublimis

1950-51

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

 

David Smith

Tanktotem V

1955-6

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Helen Frankenthaler

Mountains and Sea

1952

Post-Painterly Abstraction

Term
[image]
Definition

Morris Louis

Saraband

1959

Post-Painterly Abstraction

Term
[image]
Definition

 

Kenneth Noland

Whirl

1960

Post-Painterly Abstraction

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Jean Fautrier

Head of a Hostage no. 22

1944

Art informel

Term
[image]
Definition

Jean Dubuffet

Le Metafisyx

1950

Art informel

Term
[image]
Definition

Robert Rauschenberg

Bed

1955

Neo-Dada

Term
[image]
Definition

Robert Rauschenberg

Canyon

1959

Neo-Dada

Term
[image]
Definition

Jasper Johns

Flag

1954-55

Neo-Dada

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Jasper Johns

Target with Plaster Casts

1955

Neo-Dada

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 Jasper Johns

Painted Bronze II (Ale Cans)

1964

Neo-Dada

Term
[image]
Definition

Kazuo Shiraga

Challenge to the Mud

1955

Gutai

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Francis Bacon

Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X

1953

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Joseph Beuys

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

1965

Fluxus

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Yves Klein

Leap into the Void

1960

New Realism

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Richard Hamilton

Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing

1956

The Independent Group

 

Term
[image]
Definition

David Hockney

Sunbather

1966

Term
[image]
Definition

Allan Kaprow

18 Happenings in 6 Parts

1959

Happenings

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Claes Oldenburg

Pie à la Mode

1962

Pop Art

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Yoko Ono

Cut Piece

1965

Fluxus

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Roy Lichtenstein

Big Painting VI

1965

Pop Art

Term
[image]
Definition

Andy Warhol

32 Campbell’s Soup Cans

1961-2

Pop Art

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Andy Warhol

Lavender Disaster

1963

Pop Art

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz

The Portable War Memorial

1968

Pop Art (Assemblage)

Term
[image]
Definition

Frank Stella

Die Fahne Hoch!

1959

Minimalism

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Donald Judd

Untitled

1968

Minimalism

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Robert Morris

Installation at the Green Gallery, New York

1964

Minimalism

Term
[image]
Definition

 Carl Andre

Magnesium Square

1969

Minimalism

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Dan Flavin

Monument for V. Tatlin

1966

Minimalism

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Sol LeWitt

Modular Structure

1966

Minimalism

Term
[image]
Definition

Robert Morris

Untitled (Tan Felt)

1968

Anti-Form

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

Eva Hesse

Untitled (Rope Piece)

1970

Anti-Form

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Bruce Nauman

Self Portrait as a Fountain

1966-7

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Richard Serra

Corner Prop

1969

Anti-Form

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Robert Smithson

A Nonsite (Franklin, N.J.)

1968

Land Art

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty

1969-70

Land Art

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Michael Heizer

Double Negative

1969-70

Land Art

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Running Fence

1972-76

Land Art

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