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23.15 Johnson
Glass House, New Canaan, Ct 1949
International Style
Interior is an unbroken space
Dissolves barrier between inside and outside
See nature change throughout seasons
Guest house built into the hill |
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23.12 Miles & Phillip Johnson
Seagram Building, New York
1954-1958 International Style
Raised on piers
Set back from street
Vertical with no interruption
Believed it was one of his most perfect buildings
Symmetrical, balanced
38 stories
Bronze tint, suggestion of color of whiskey |
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24.23 "The Linen Closet" "Womanhouse" 1972
Feminist
On the shelf, between the sheets
Shelves are bars trying to contain women |
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23.21 Rogers and Piano
Centre Pompidou, Paris
1972-1976 International Style
Playing with rational, functional spaces
Flipped inside out
Pipes and service structures color-coded on outside
Created an interior that is wide open, used for a changing environment, moving walls
Difficult to maintain, birds nesting in pipes
Some exhibitions described as "barn-like" for smaller paintings |
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25.13-.15 Johnson and Burgee
AT&T Headquarters Post Modernism
1978-1983
Interest in stylistic whimsy, asymetry, borrowing from past
Like chest of drawers from past
Ancient Roman Arch.
Turn back to visual interest
Fun and functional, idea of play |
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24.24 Chicago "Dinner Party" 1979 Feminist
100,00 People visited at first show
13 place settings of women on each side
999 Women's names on floor
Woman as biology
Plate as female sexuality
All individualized
Same cup, napkin, silverware, on all
Symbol of overall shape of piece as birth canal
13= # of men at last supper and women needed to form a witches covenant
Criticized- same stereotypes, women defined by genitalia
Fight between what is feminine, masculine
Vast majority of definitions come from culture
Idea that gender can't be reduced to biology
Ignoring women of culture, no women artists of color present
Everything handmade
Accused of repeating cycle of not reporting additional artists |
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26.4 Sherman "Untitled Film Still" 1979
Appropriation
All self portraits
Very different images/ways
Range of different woman's roles
Many mysterious
By calling them "Film Stills" she gives the idea of narration/story
If femininity is culturally shaped, then its always changeable |
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24.62 Maya Lin "Vietnam Veteran's Memorial" 1980-1982 Minimalism
Public competition 1400 submissions
Inscribed in chronological order
Wanted to describe a journey
Between Lincoln and Washington memorial
Highly polished black granite
Could not condemn or glorify the war
Unlike previous war memorial sculptures, now considered the model for memorials
Highly racist toward Lin |
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24.61 Richard Serra "Tilted Arc" 1981 Minimalism
Commissioned by gov
Installed in NYC Federal Building
Interested in cite-specific installation
Your interaction with his art work
Removed in 1989
Blocked part of plaza and view of fountain
Attracted graffiti, popular with rats, maybe bombs?
Inconvenience for workers there |
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26.42 Kabakov
"The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment"
1981-1988 Installation Art
Environment for viewer to experience
Created for a specific space
Art changes and is mobile
Giant sling shot
Desperate attempt to escape, reference to Cold War
you couldn't escape the government |
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25.28 Eisenman
Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
1983-1989 Deconstruction
Traditional and modern
Combine grid, not straight or parallel
Reminds you of building under construction
Art is ever changing
Referenced castles, reassurance of history, past
Local Amory |
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26.43 Boltanski
"Lessons of Darkness"
1987 Installation Art
Pictures from WWII
Memorial Service
Shedding light on horrible past
working with found photographs
no idea of knowing individuals |
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27.39 Yasumasa Morimura
"Portrait (Futago)"
1988 Post Modern
Japanese photograph of digital prints
He puts himself in famous pictures
Look to Olympia
Komono and Japanese prints on wall
Cat with paw raised=good luck
Issue of gender, assuming identities
He is also black slave, issue of ethnic identity
History of modern art is often white and European
Media manipulation |
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27.23 Renee Cox
"The Yo Mama"
1993 Post Modernism
Issue of racial and gender identity
Using own body, looking straight at you |
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25.34 Frank Gehry 1991-97 Architectural Abstraction
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Computer modeling, shapes change based on where you view it
Used titanium cladding, reference to industry
Interest in form, incorporation of light and space
Denying glass box |
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