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Welcome to ART-125 Topics in Contemporary Art, taught by Professor Jonathan Gabel. This website will be continually updated throughout the course. Links will be provided to download all the course material; summaries of the classes will be provided, along with a list of the most important things to have come away from the class with.
Please look over the lists that start with after this class you should be able to. If anything in this list is confusing, PLEASE bring it up in the following class and I will try to clarify any point that I didn’t explain clearly. Assigned reading are from the textbook: Twentieth Century American Art by Erica Doss
Additionally, I will post any news or upcoming events such as tests, fieldtrips, etc., as well as anything that is due next week.
Class Resources:
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ART125: homework from Pop Readings is due Monday, February 20th.
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Minimalism 02-13-2012
So here we have a bunch of artists, all basically making boxes and wanting the art world to accept them as Capital “A” Art. So how could it be that none of them get along? Today we look at the Minimalists, and interestingly, we see that the more similar the work of artists is, the more likely it is that they are going to more…
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Pop Art 02-08-2012
The beginning of Pop Art as an artistic movement is often pegged to Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Home’s So Different, So Appealing? and that’s where we start our class today. We also look at our local fathers of Pop, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. more…
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Abstract Expressionism 01-31-2012
This week, we pick up with the end of World War II. We start by looking at two very different images of soldiers. One is by George Grosz, a bleak image of a crippled WW I veteran, reduced to a beggar. The other, by Thomas Hart Benton, shows heroic young Americans heading off to Europe to fight. more…
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Introduction 01-23-2012
Our course starts in New York in the 1940s, but 35,000 years of recorded art history exist before this point. Before we touch down with both feet running, what should we be aware of, what lessons from the past can we take with us? more…
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Art 125: Welcome 01-21-2012
Welcome to ART-125 Topics in Contemporary Art
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