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Monica MANOLESCU-OANCEA
"American Art and Photography", Université Marc Bloch,
2008-2009
This
course offers a quick survey of American art and artists. It gives you
the opportunity to look at paintings and photographs, while also trying
to teach you how to look at paintings and photographs. It
attempts to help you decode a landscape painting, the image of Marylin
Monroe by Andy Warhol or the various symbols displayed on the one-dollar
bill. Here are some of the topics this course will cover: painters of
the American West, American painters in Europe in the second half of the
19th century, photographers of the Great Depression, New York
skyscrapers, Pop Art. While we will mainly discuss images, you are
invited to read one novel, Paul Auster’s Moon Palace (1989),
which offers a masterful synthesis of emblematic American themes and
focuses largely on painting and vision.
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Ralph
Blakelock - Moonlight (1885)
Oil
on canvas, 69.2 x 82.0 cm
The Brooklyn Museum
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Bibliography
For
methodological instruments: Danielle Bruckmuller, Peinture et civilisation
britannique (Ophrys, 2000).
Thomas Cole, Essay on the American Scenery (1836,
distributed in class).
Francesca
Marchetti et al., La Peinture américaine (Gallimard, 2002).
Miles Orvell, American Photography (Oxford UP,
2003).
Class One: A Mad Survey
Edward Hicks. Peaceable Kingdom. 1834
Anonymous. Elizabeth Clarke Freake and Baby Mary.
1671-1674
Gilbert Stuart. George Washington.1796
Photograph of Jackson Pollock at work
Jackson Pollock. Number 18. 1950
------. Lavender Mist. 1950
American Artists in Europe : Sargent and Whistler
John Singer Sargent. A
Morning Walk. 1888.
Claude Monet. La
Promenade. La Femme à l'ombrelle. 1875.
J.S. Sargent. Portrait
of Madame Edouard Pailleron.
1879.
------. Portrait
of Madame X (Madame Gautreau). 1884.
------. Repose.
1911.
------. Two
Girls in White Dresses. 1909-1911.
------. Carnation,
Lily, Lily, Rose. 1885-1886.
------. Garden
Study of the Vickers Children. 1884.
------. Zuleika
(watercolor). 1907.
------. Venice
(watercolor). 1902.
James McNeill Whistler. Arrangement
in Gray and Black (The Artist's Mother). 1871.
------. The
White Girl (Simphony in White). 1862.
------. Portrait
of Miss Alexander. 1872-1874.
------. Nocturne
in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket. 1878.
------. Caprice
in Purple and Gold. 1864.
Claude Monet. La
Japonaise. 1875.
Painters of the American West : Cole, Church, Bierstadt
Thomas Cole. Falls
of Kaaterskill. 1826. (109 x 91 cm)
------. The
Oxbow. View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Mass. after a Thunderstorm.
1836. (131 x 193 cm)
------. The
Course of Empire I (The Savage State). 1836.
------. The
Course of Empire II (The Arcadian, or Pastoral State). 1836.
------. The
Course of Empire III (Consummation of Empire). 1836.
------. The
Course of Empire IV (Destruction). 1836.
------. The
Course of Empire V (Desolation). 1836.
Frederick Edwin Church. Niagara.
1857. (107 x 230 cm)
------. Heart
of the Andes. 1859. (168 x 303 cm)
------. Cotopaxi.
1862. (122 x 216 cm)
------. Rainy
Season in the Tropics. 1866. (143 x 214 cm)
------. Rainy
Season in the Tropics (detail).
------. Twilight
in the Wilderness. 1860s.
Albert Bierstadt. The
Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak. 1863. (187 x 307 cm)
------. Emigrants
Crossing the Plains. 1867. (170 x 260 cm)
------. Sunrise
in the Yosemite Valley. 1868.
------. The
Last Buffalo. 1889. (181 x 303 cm)
Georgia O'Keeffe
Photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe
Photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
Photograph of Georgia O’Keeffe taken by Alfred
Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe. Light Coming on the Plains III. Watercolor. 1917
(30 x 20 cm)
------. Evening Star IV. Watercolor. 1917 (30 x 20 cm)
------. Blue and Green Music. 1919 (58,4 x 48,3 cm)
Example of abstract art: Kasimir Malevich. Black Square and Red Square.
1915
Georgia O'Keeffe. Black Iris III. 1926 (91,4 x 75,9 cm)
------. Oriental Poppies. 1928 (76,2 x 101,9 cm)
------. Jack-in-the-Pulpit
III. 1930
------. Jack-in-the-Pulpit IV. 1930 (101,6 x 76,2 cm)
------. Jack-in-the-Pulpit VI. 1930
------. Yellow Calla. 1926
------. Red
Canna. 1923
------. Deer Skull with
Pedernal. 1936
Photograph of Georgia O’Keeffe with a skull in the background
Georgia O'Keeffe. Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue. 1931 (101,3 x 91,1 cm)
------. Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses. 1932
------. From the Faraway, Nearby. 1938 (91.2 x 102 cm)
------. The Ranchos Church. 1929 (61,3 x 91,8 cm)
------. Ladder to the Moon. 1958. (101,6 x 76,2 cm)
------. Sky Above Clouds IV. 1965 (243,8 x 731,5 cm)
Additional Documents
About colors in painting and the evolution from natural to
chemical/industrial colors (see the section on the "Development of
synthetic pigments")
Documentary on Georgia O’Keeffe at 92
Documentary on the American painters of the West by
Robert Hughes: Part
1 Part
2 Part
3 Part
4 Part
5 Part
6 (six parts, 1 hour total play time)
Footage of Jackson Pollock at work (1'20)
Footage of the flappers and the Jazz Age (6'30)
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