Art 576:The Modern Object: Introduction

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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4A 4B

The DeWitt Clinton

James Madison War of 1812

Industrial Revolution

American ProgressArtist: John GastYear: 1872

Edgar DegaAuguste Rodin Fredric Augusta Bartholdi

Auguste Rodin

Gates of HellDate: 1880 - 1900

Edgar Dega

The Little Fourteen-Year-Old DancerDate: 1880

Frederic Augusta Barholdi

Liberty Enlightening the WorldDate: 1884

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

Title: The BauhausDesigner: Walter GropiusDate: 1883-1969

Early Twentieth Century:Space

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)

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4 21st Century 1. Takashi Murakami

2. Antony Gormley

3. Tara Donovan

4. Chris Burdan