Intro lecture Flashcards

1
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1960s

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when pop culture emerged/ baby boom children grew up
rebelled against their parents 
empires collapsing 
Vietnam and Korean war
geo-politics 
student protests
nationalism
the Cold War
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2
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definition of modernism

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Greenberg VS Herskovits

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3
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Robert Frank, ‘The Americans’

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1959
photo series, road trip with beat poets
trolley car in Chicago
captured the Jim Crow laws.

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4
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Pollock, ‘Lavender Mist’

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1950
title taken form works of an African American jazz musician, written out of G’s narrative
channelled Picasso/ Native American art forms

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5
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Norman Lewis, ‘Metropolitan Crowd’

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1946

can’t channel Picasso’s spirit, would be primitivising, no positive cultural resource to draw on

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6
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Individualism

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during the 1940s, many artists endorsed notions of individualism
collective was sidelined making it difficult to talk about race

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7
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Norman Lewis, Alabama

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1960
Civil Right movement
painting is entirely in black and white, political charge

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8
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Ralph Ellison

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‘The Invisible Man’

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