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William Faulkner, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950

William Faulkner, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Faulkner is the first American to receive this prestigious award. Civil Defense. Chapter Twenty-Two The Contemporary Contour 1945 - Present. An Era of Many Names: The Nuclear Age The Computer Age The Information Age

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William Faulkner, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950

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  1. William Faulkner, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 Faulkner is the first American to receive this prestigious award

  2. Civil Defense

  3. Chapter Twenty-TwoThe Contemporary Contour1945 - Present An Era of Many Names: The Nuclear Age The Computer Age The Information Age The Late-Capitalist Age The American Age The Postindustrial Age The Space Age The Age of Globalization

  4. Existentialism • Kierkegaard (1813-1855) • “the crowd is untruth” • Autonomous individual, self-examination; Christian Existentialism • “Who am I? What am I doing here? Where am I going?” • Attacked organized state religion; proposed “leap of faith” • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) • Moral relativism • “If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you” • Sartre (1905-1980) • Implications of a world not rooted in religion • Individual place, freedom, ethics

  5. Toward a Global Culture • Artistic satire of modern warfare • Joseph Heller—Catch 22; Thomas Pynchon—Gravity’s Rainbow; Stanley Kubrick—Dr. Strangelove • Global economy and Cold War • Search for individual, social meaning in a shrinking world of mass-produced consumer goods • Artist as voice of protest, hope • Beat literature: Ginsberg, Kerouac

  6. Allen Ginsberg • Beat Poet

  7. Edward Hopper, Nighthawks (1942)

  8. Identity Politics since 1945 • Civil rights for minorities (1960s-present) • Second-wave feminism (1970s-present) • Gay and lesbian rights (1980s-present) • Growing sense of cultural pluralism as Western nations become home to more and more people from different civilizations and as native peoples assert their rights

  9. Juane Quick-to-See Smith, Indian, Indio, Indigenous (1992)

  10. Architecture The Modern and the Postmodern

  11. Le Corbusier, a European modernist architect: a house is a machine for living in. “Le Corbusier-haus, Berlin” How does this apartment house compare and contrast with other architectures we have studied: Greek and Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, Rococo, Neo-Classical?

  12. American modernist architecture • Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) • “Form ever follows function” Wainwright Building, St. Louis1890-91 With terra cotta tile organic decoration

  13. Mies van der Rohe, a European modernist and admirer of Sullivan: “Less is More” The Seagrams Building, NYC

  14. American modernist architecture • Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) • Function is accomplished through form • Organic architecture • Use of new materials: ferroconcrete • Flow of space vs. obstruction of space • Private home, Fallingwater • Guggenheim Museum (1957-1959)

  15. Frank Lloyd Wright: organic architectureThe Kauffman House outside Pittsburgh, aka “Fallingwater.” How is this house organic?

  16. Frank Lloyd Wright: Form Follows Function: museum goers walk down a spiral ramp inside, viewing art on the walls in one continuous uninterrupted stream. ”Democracy needs something basically better than a box” The Guggenheim Museum, 1957-59, New York City

  17. Atlanta’s Modernist High Museum: how does form follow function here?

  18. Midtown Atlanta: Postmodernist Architecture.What is modern looking about this skyline? What isn’t?

  19. One Atlantic Center

  20. GLG Grand

  21. 191 Peachtree Tower

  22. Frank Gehry, Postmodern Praguecomputer-aided architecture

  23. Frank Gehry, Guggenheim MuseumBilbao, Spain

  24. Frank Gehry, Furniture Designer The Wiggle Chair (corrugated cardboard); sofa and stools (molded polymer)

  25. Peggy Guggenheim: the Medici of Modern Art Guggenheim’s Art of this Century gallery in NYC

  26. Pre-WWIIModern Art Picasso’s Le Gourmet (1901) What other modern artists does this resemble? (see, this guy can really paint too!)

  27. Picasso’s cubist style Portrait of Maya with a Doll (1938) How is Picasso moving away from the conventions of past art?

  28. Postwar Picasso Musketeer (1968) Picasso has moved towards a very colorful, almost cartoonish geometrical abstraction. What elements of traditional realist art remain here?

  29. Romare Bearden, American Cubist and collagist Rocket (left) and Train (right)

  30. Pre-WWII Expressionism Munch, Anxiety How is munch expressing the interior state of anxiety in this painting?

  31. NewExpressionism Francis Bacon Self Portrait

  32. NewExpressionism Francis Bacon Head

  33. NewExpressionism Francis Bacon Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (3)

  34. Art Since 1945Prodigious variety; numerous styles • International dilution of American art • Refugee teachers, artists • Peggy Guggenheim • Patron of modern art

  35. Painting Since 1945:Abstract Expressionism • Color field paintings • Color detached from imagery • Artistic goals • Break with other conventions of art • Feeling, not seeing

  36. Jackson Pollock at work

  37. Pollock, The She Wolf What is being expressed here?

  38. Pollock, Eyes in the Heat What is being expressed here?

  39. Pollock, Number 1 (1948) Freewrite

  40. Adolph Gottlieb in front of his painting, Spray 1957

  41. Adolph Gottlieb,“color field” paintingIcon (1964)The abstract shapes and colors evoke feelings and provoke assocationsFREEWRITE

  42. Robert Motherwell, Elegy for the Spanish Republic n°34, 1953-54

  43. Mark Rothko, Center Tryptich for Rothko Chapel, 1966, Houston. The panels of varying shades of the same color are meant to be meditated upon, much like Byzantine icons.

  44. Painting Since 1945:The Return to Representation • Consideration of the object; painting the stuff of everyday life • Jasper Johns (b. 1930) • Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) • John Cage’s “Happenings” • Combine paintings • Andy Warhol • Pop Art, popular culture, consumerism

  45. Jasper Johns, Painted Bronze, 1960,

  46. Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955-59, oil and collage on canvas, with stuffed goat and tire

  47. Andy Warhol makes art out of the supermarketCoke Bottles and Campbell’s Soup Can

  48. Roy Lichtenstein, Blam!, 1962Making art out of mass media and pop culture

  49. Photorealism.Chuck Close, Self Portrait

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