The table below includes selected lecture notes and slide lists.
| LEC # | TOPICS | FILES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: the aesthetic and ideological context for figuration vs. abstraction going into WWII | (PDF) |
| 2 | Formalizing the unconscious: Surrealism. Matta (Echaurren), Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Sandy Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Henry Moore, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, and Hans Hofmann | (PDF) |
| 3 | "I am Nature:" Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Screening of Jackson Pollock, 1951 film by Hans Namuth | (PDF) |
| 4 | Gesture vs. Field: Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell vs. Rothko, Newman, Reinhardt | (PDF) |
| 5 | Abstract expressionist sculpture: David Smith's "Drawing in Space" vs. Bourgeois's and Nevelson's intimate worlds; Roszak, Lipton, Ferber | (PDF) |
| 6 | Rothkko, Still, and the San Francisco school; Tobey, Matthieu, Yoshihara and the "Gutai" group, promotion of an "ecole du Pacifique" | (PDF) |
| 7 | Body vs. Gesture in Europe: Giacometti, Dubuffet, Fautrier, Tachisme, l'art informel, CoBrA, the d'affichistes, Yves Klein, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely | (PDF) |
| 8 | John Cage, Robert Rauschenber, Jasper Johns, and the question of a homosexual aesthetic | (PDF) |
| 9 | Bay Area figurative art: the view from the West Coast; California funk and Chicago's "Hairy Who" | (PDF) |
| 10 | The Beats; environments and happenings in the US (Fluxus begins) | (PDF) |
| 11 | Post-painterly abstraction and formalist sculpture; Greenberg's reign | (PDF) |
| 12 | Screening of Painters Painting, 1970 film by Emile De Antonio | |
| 13 | Meet at List Visual Art Center for tour of exhibitions | |
| 14 | Frank Stella and Minmal art: The corporate icon (Andre, Judd, Flavin, Morris) | (PDF) |
| 15 | Warhol's Factory; pop art and another kind of industrial aesthetic (Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Dine, Marisol) | (PDF) |
| 16 | The Independent Group (London); Capitalist Realism (Germany); Arte Povera (Italy) | (PDF) |
| 17 | Early conceptual art: Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, Richard Artschwager; international conceptualism and Fluxus | (PDF) |
| 18 | Sculptors of land, poets of light: Robert Smithson and Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Richard Long (UK), Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, Robert Irwin, James Turrell; screening of Spiral Jetty, 1970 film by Robert Smithson. | (PDF) |
| 19 | Performance vs. Intervention in an international context: Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Bruce Nauman, Helio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles, Zhang Huan | (PDF) |
| 20 | From Smithson to Gordon Matta-Clark, "Post-Minimalism" and process artists: Eva Hesse, Jackie Winsor, Lynda Benglis; screening of Office Baroque, 1977 film by Gordon Matta-Clark | (PDF) |
| 21 | Women buck the Canon: Louise Bourgeois to "Womanhouse" and "The Dinner Party," status of the decorative; performance art redux: Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneeman, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Piper | (PDF) |
| 22 | Identity politics: Bettye Saar, David Hammons, Fred Wilson, Lorna Simpson, Jimmy Durham, James Luna; Public interventions: Hans Haacke, Maya Lin, AIDS Demo-graphics, Krzysztof Wodiczko | (PDF) |
| 23 | PoMo 1, appropriation art: Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach; "Neo Geo:" Peter Halley, Philip Taaffe | (PDF) |
| 24 | Installation art, "new media art," political interventions, and globalism | (PDF) |
| 25 | In-class debate, class summary and review | (PDF) |