Art 576:The Modern Object: Introduction
Jul 18, 2015
An Overview of this lecture:
-Background Leading up to Modernity
-Organization/ Types of sculpture
-The Human Form as Sculpture
-The Object as sculpture
-Space as sculpture
-Introduction to Modernity
-Historical Climate
-Politics
-Technology
-Key Artists
-Brief Look beyond Modernity
-Technologies
- Key Artists & Defining moments
1. Pre History Date: 30,000 – 25,000 BCETitle: Venus of Willendorf
2. Ancient Egypt Date: 1350 BCEInner Coffin of Tutankhamun
3. Cycladic Date: 2800 – 2700 BCETitle: Marble seated harp player
4. Greek Date: 200 – 190 BCE Title Nike of Samothrace
5. Roman Date: 4th CenturyTitle: Emperor Constantine the Great
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1. Neolithic Date: 4th – 2nd millennium BCETitle: Mortar Stone
2. Ancient Egypt Date: 2130 – 1990 BCETitle: Statuette of hippopotamus
3. Greek Date: 515 BCETitle: Calyx-krater(bowl for mixing wine and water)
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1. Mycenaean Date: 1250 BCETitle: Lion Gate
2. Ancient Egypt Dates: 2589 – 2504 BCEPyramids of Giza
3. RomanDate: 70 – 82 CEColosseum
4. Roman Date: 125 – 128 CE Pantheon (exterior 4A , Interior 4B)
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Artist: Umberto Boccioni
Titled: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Date: 1913
Early Twentieth Century: The Figure
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Title: Fountain (signed R . Mutt)
Date 1917 (Replica)
Early Twentieth Century:Objecty Twentieth Century
Middle to Late: (1945 – 2000) Twentieth Century: The Figure
Artist: Henry MooreTitle: Reclining Figure in BronzeDate: 1939
Artist: Peter Voulkos Title: TientosDate: 1959
Middle to Late: (1945 – 2000) Twentieth Century: The Object
Middle to Late: (1945 – 2000) Twentieth Century: Space
Artist: Simon RodiaTitle Watts TowersDate: 1921- 1969(from conception to completion)