Intro lecture Flashcards
1960s
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
definition of modernism
Greenberg VS Herskovits
Robert Frank, ‘The Americans’
1959
photo series, road trip with beat poets
trolley car in Chicago
captured the Jim Crow laws.
Pollock, ‘Lavender Mist’
1950
title taken form works of an African American jazz musician, written out of G’s narrative
channelled Picasso/ Native American art forms
Norman Lewis, ‘Metropolitan Crowd’
1946
can’t channel Picasso’s spirit, would be primitivising, no positive cultural resource to draw on
Individualism
during the 1940s, many artists endorsed notions of individualism
collective was sidelined making it difficult to talk about race
Norman Lewis, Alabama
1960
Civil Right movement
painting is entirely in black and white, political charge
Ralph Ellison
‘The Invisible Man’