Art History: Impressionism to Early Modernism (AHIS 206-Winter)

1. Art History: Impressionism to Early Modernism (AHIS 206-Winter) Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 Instructor, Danielle Hogan Email: hogan_danielle @shaw.ca

2. World War IA major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers.

3. Early InfluencesTo evoke a "before", that is to try and establish Dada’s ancestry so as to better describe its history would be against the tenets of a movement that turned its back on all artistic, literary and cultural heritages. Dada considered itself as "born without a mother," or as Tristan Tzara’s said: "I don’t even want to know if there have been men before me." [Tristan Tzara, Manifeste Dada [»] 1918, cover]. The Dadaists, who wanted to make a tabula rasa of history, nevertheless maintained an ambiguous relationship with their recent past. Even though they admired certain figures such as Apollinaire, they rejected previous influences, especially those of the Futurists, to whom they owed much in the realm of typography. TEXT CREDITS Jeanne Brun, 'Avant Dada', translated from the French text, published in the catalogue Dada (Editions du Centre Pompidou : Paris 2005) 122-123. The translation was part of the Press Kit, published by MNAM Centre Pompidou 2005, p. 53-55 [Press Kit. Courtesy MNAM Centre Pompidou].

4. DADA

5. You cannot defineelectricity. The samecan be said of art. It isa kind of inner currentin a human being, orsomething which needsno definition.Marcel Duchamp

6. DadaResponding to the disasters of World War 1 and to the an emerging modern media and machine culture, Dada artists led a creative revolution that boldly embraced and caustically criticized modernity itself. Proposing innovative strategies of art making, including collage, photomontage, chance, Readymades, performances and media pranks, the movement created an abiding artistic legacy for the century to come. Defiantly international relative to the pervasive nationalism of its day, Dada- active in Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, New York, Paris and Zurich- was the first avant-garde movement to self consciously position itself as a international network crossing countries and continents.-MoMA

7. The signatories of this manifesto have, under the battle cryD A D A ! ! ! gathered together to put forward a new art. What, then, is Dadaism? The word "Dada" signifies the most primitive relation to the reality of the environment. . . . Life appears as a simultaneous muddle of noises, colours and spiritual rhythms, which is taken unmodified, with all the sensational screams and fevers of its reckless everyday psyche and with all its brutal reality. . . . Dada is the international expression of our times, the great rebellion of artistic movements, the artistic reflex of all these offensives, peace congresses, riots in the vegetable market. . . . (Hughes, 71) DADA Manifesto was written in 1918.

8. Cabaret VoltaireSpiegelgasse 1, Zurichphotographed in 1935

9. The Exquisite Corpse Drawing by Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Max Morise, Joan Miró, c. 1926.

10. Marcel Duchamp 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968

11. Nude Descending a Staircase no 2 1912 Oil on canvas Marcel Duchamp

12. To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour Marcel Duchamp 1918 Oil, silver leaf, lead wire, and magnifying lens on glass (cracked), mounted between panes of glass in a standing metal frame, 20 1/8 x 16 1/4 x 1 1/2" (51 x 41.2 x 3.7 cm), on painted wood base, 1 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 4 1/2" (4.8 x 45.3 x 11.4 cm), Overall 22" (55.8 cm) high

13. LHOOQ 1919 Marcel Duchamp

14. Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) Photograph by Man Ray 1921 Marcel Duchamp

15. READYMADES Readymades are everyday manufactured goods that are deemed to be art merely by virtue of the artist's selection of them as such. They were invented by Marcel Duchamp who wanted to test the limits of what qualifies as a work of art. Although he had collected manufactured objects in his studio in Paris, it was not until he came to New York in 1915 that he identified these objects as a category of art, giving the English name "readymade" to any object purchased "as a sculpture already made." To common household goods, he added signatures and titles, converting them into works of art. When he modified these objects, for example by penning mustache and goatee on the color reproduction of the Mona Lisa, he called them "assisted" or "rectified readymades." Duchamp's most scandalous readymade was the porcelain urinal that he turned on its back, titled Fountain, signed R. Mutt (a pun on the German word Armut, or poverty), and submitted to the supposedly jury-free exhibition at the Society of Independent Artists. When it was rejected, the dadaists launched a publicity campaign and defense of the work. -National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

16. Fountain 1917 readymade porcelain urinal on its back 63 x 48 x 35 cm Marcel Duchamp

17. Bottlerack 1914 Marcel Duchamp

18. The Readymade/Assemblage Assemblage is an artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects.

19. Bicycle Wheel 1913 Marcel Duchamp

20. Randomness and Chance

22. Autoportrait Man Ray

23. Cadeau (Gift) c. 1958 (replica of lost 1921 original)painted flat iron with row of tacks, heads glued to bottomMan Ray

24. Indestructible Object (or Object to Be Destroyed) Man Ray 1964 (replica of 1923 original) Metronome with cutout photograph of eye on pendulum 8 7/8 x 4 3/8 x 4 5/8" (22.5 x 11 x 11.6 cm).

25. Marquise Casati 1922 Man Ray

26. A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used. Areas of the paper that have received no light appear white; those exposed through transparent or semi-transparent objects appear grey.[1] The techniquie is sometimes called cameraless photography. It was used by Man Ray in his exploration of rayographs. Photograms were used in the 20th century by a number of photographers, particularly Man Ray, who called them "rayographs". His style capitalised on the stark and unexpected effects of negative imaging, unusual juxtapositions of identifiable objects (such as spoons and pearl necklaces), variations in the exposure time given to different objects within a single image, and moving objects as the sensitive materials were being exposed.[

27. Man Ray “Rayographs 1922-28”

28. Man Ray

29. Man Ray

30. Indestructible Object (or Object to Be Destroyed) Man Ray 1964 (replica of 1923 original) Metronome with cutout photograph of eye on pendulum 8 7/8 x 4 3/8 x 4 5/8" (22.5 x 11 x 11.6 cm).

31. Fernand Léger 1922

32. Ballet mécanique Fernand Léger 1924 Black and white version. French intertitles. 12 min.

33. Our heads are round to letthought change direction.-Francis Picabia

34. 391first appeared in Jan 1917.Frances Picabia

35. The Fig-Leaf 1922Oil on canvas2062 x 1663 x 70 mmpaintingFrances Picabia

36. Jean Arp

37. Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance)1916-17Jean Arp

38. Tristan Tzara

39. CalligrammeTristan Tzara

40. Hugo Ball

41. Sound PoemHugo BallProof sheet for the projected anthology Dadaco, edited by George Grosz, John Heartfield, et al, 1919.

42. Jean Cocteau

43. Raoul Hausmann

44. AssemblageRaoul Hausmann(Mechanical Head [The Spirit of Our Age])c. 1920

45. Raoul HausmannABCD1923-1924

46. Hannah Höch self-portrait, c.1926

47. Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in GermanyHannah Höch1919collage of pasted papers, 90x144 cm

48. Hannah Höchcollage of pasted papers

49. Hannah Höchcollage of pasted papers

50. Hannah Höchcollage of pasted papers