Outfox
Thursday, April 19, 2012
"Here in Oslo"
Here in Oslo
As the plane descended into Oslo, I scanned the landscape, looking at where my Grandmother may have been born and her Mother certainly was. Grandma was why I came here. Unfortunately, I never learned too much about her past – not even where she was born. Her name was Clara Baggie Sundberg (She married a Swede) and her Mother was named Hannah.
Though I tried before my trip to trace her, all I could find was that she lived in Wisconsin before marrying Carl and moving to Minnesota. She had six children – three girls and three boys. One boy, my Mother’s twin died shortly after he was born, and Grandma’s youngest daughter died giving birth to my cousin. In those days, it was not unusual for women to die during child birth.
I remember her as a tall woman who stood quite majestically until old age incapacitated her. She had thin yellow hair she wove into a single long braid curled into place at the nape of her neck. Her “bun” as she referred to it was fastened with the kind of long, open hairpins that had a golden sheen. She had a somewhat large nose, and a nervous hand gesture – sometimes moving her thumb around and around her forefinger.
Our relationship began just after I was born a girl instead of a boy. My parents had a name ready for a male. When that proved inappropriate, they grabbed probably the most popular name of the time – Judy. But most little girls and some boys in my hometown had two names, like Sara Jane, Mary Lou, or Gary Lee. What to do. My Grandmother liking an actress named Kay Francis, suggested Kay, and so I became Judy Kay. She and a couple other members of my family always called me by the two names.
Grandma lived only about two and a half blocks from my parents and as soon as it was allowed I made many trips to her house. Sometimes my Mother would have me pick-up groceries for her like bread or sandwich meat from the little nearby grocery. I liked going to Grandma’s because she let me do things like set the table or wash the dishes. At home this wasn’t permitted for fear I’d break something. But there were other reasons I liked going there.
Across the street lived Jeffy, a reddish-brown Cocker Spaniel. Since I didn’t have pets at home, Jeffy became my buddy. Often he’d wander off through the wild fields behind his home coming back full of sticker burrs caught and tangled in his silky hair. For hours, he’d lay patiently while I pulled them out, one by one. Together, we created a little animal-human bond.
Grandma’s house was an ordinary wood-frame rectangular box set on end so that it seemed tall. It was certainly nothing special to behold, but the surrounding yard was a wonder. By the front door was a bleeding heart flowering plant that came up every year and through the front window you could see a huge fern set on a wooden stand. I still have that plant stand. Around to the left was a big Catalpa tree with clusters of white fragrant blossoms looking something like orchids. In the spring, their aroma would fill the air around. After the flowers, came long, brown bean-like pods that later I discovered gave the name “Indian Bean or Cigar Tree” to this somewhat exotic species of the trumpet vine family.
We never entered through the front door but always around the right side to what was for a child a remarkable backyard. The first thing one would see is a rectangular dirt mound where every year she planted nasturtiums with yellow, orange and red flowers. I understand now that the leaves are edible though I don’t remember eating any. Further in was an apple tree producing annual fruit.
But the piece de resistance was her “rock garden.” It was just that – one central and four subsidiary lozenge shaped mounds built up of crystalline rocks that sparkled in the light, putting on a dazzling display depending on one’s position and the time of day. Among the rocks were wild flowers and plants like green ferns, white lilies of the valley, purple phlox and violets. It was the sort of garden that a child could imagine fairies living in.
Behind this magic was a pen where hens and one rooster were kept and at the end, a coop where Grandma gathered fresh eggs from straw nests. Near holidays a duck or a turkey might appear for a short time.
Beside the rock garden was a bird bath made of cement ornamented with pottery shards fashioned by her son, my Uncle Revell. Both bees and birds came there. Another “bath” sat in front of a “regular” garden at the back of her yard, and there was another occupying a whole lot beyond the rock garden. Basically, Revell took care of these, planting lettuce, onions, carrots and flowers in the smaller and potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers and corn in the larger. Sometimes for lunch, Grandma and I would go out and pick fresh lettuce for sandwiches she made of white bread, butter, sugar and the lettuce.
There was a trap door opening to stairs leading to a dirt cellar underneath her house where potatoes could be kept in a cool, moist atmosphere for most of the winter. We had a lot of fresh food in those days. The flavors of today’s “organics” cannot compare to “the real thing” grown back then.
It was also in the backyard that Clara and her two daughters – my Mother and aunt – stretched curtains on wooden frames hung from clothes lines. Inside her house on the wood-fed cooking stove and at the table they canned fruit and vegetables. These were as much social as work occasions.
Another fixture of her kitchen was an ice box – precursor of the refrigerator. The “ice man” came every few days, the back of his pick-up loaded with steaming blocks. Another kid who lived nearby and I would run out to meet him, and he’d slice off a chip for each of us. Sucking on the ice was a welcome treat on hot summer afternoons.
Off the kitchen was another room that I remembered as dark where Grandpa slept. I never got to know him well, because he died when I was five. Since we were born the same day, October 19, it would have been good to discover if we shared anything else, but his existence was set in shadows. After thirty years spent working in the local pottery (where his two sons worked as well), Grandpa became a gardener for a well-to-do family. He, too, was good at growing things. The local newspaper reported a couple times on his prize-winning dahlias at the annual flower show competition. On the downside, he liked to drink, sometimes staggering and collapsing in the backyard. My Mother said she and Grandma pulled him into the house lest “the neighbors see it.”
Curtains separated kitchen from living room, and at one time, Grandma had a cat named Buster who liked to jump and swing on them. An adjacent hallway housed a victrola and a wonderful big black and gold clock with decorative side columns. The victrola, an antique form of phonograph was a floor model, the needle arm and turn plate set on top along with a horn that folded under the cabinet cover. Underneath was storage for some old black 78s and a few rust colored, plastic 45s. Cranking a side handle set music in motion.
Decorating the walls of the house were framed pictures Grandma cut out of calendars and newspapers. One was of a lone wolf howling over a baby lamb - a tender scene of protection. Another pictured a small herd of wild horses with black and white ones in the foreground rearing up in fear of a shaft of lightning coming down from the right corner. The one I kept for years was a patriotic poster from World War II, picturing a cherry-lipped, smiling girl with red, white and blue triangular hat perched atop her blond curls
We were a lower middle class family who rarely went on vacations. Trips were limited to rides on another uncle’s boat up the Mississippi and car rides around the countryside. Grandma was always ready to go. She’d drop whatever she was doing when she got a call. The only hitch was that she had to notify everyone in the family and wait until they responded. Being impatient, I hated this as a kid. But she was the matriarch determined to keep her family together.
Since she lived at what was then the western edge of our small town fairly close to the train tracks, hobos and Indians came to her doorstep begging food - especially soup bones, and she accommodated them as best she could. Every time I arrived, she gave me a nickel, a stick of gum, something.
Specific Norwegian customs she preserved were fixing lutefisk every Christmas Eve and using the word “ufdah. For the uninitiated lutefisk is definitely an acquired taste, and to me as a kid, it smelled awful, looked horrible and tasted really bad. It’s a gelatinous concoction made from dried and salted whitefish soaked for days in water and lye before it is boiled and served with pork – for Grandma it was always spareribs.
Growing up, I left my small Midwestern hometown, pursued a career in art as historian/educator/curator, travelled a good bit of the world and settled in Manhattan where I lived with one son, plants and animals. So many years later, I tried to silently communicate with Clara and Hannah. Why had I made this trip? What was I looking for? Where and how would I find it? At this point I knew family was most important to her, that she lived close to nature, that forms of art and music graced her home and that generosity was a habit. I never knew Hannah, my great-grandmother. Only that Grandma, my Mother and my Aunt all claimed “she made bread that tasted like cake.”
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The trip had originated benignly enough first with my son, his wife and her family in the ruggedly beautiful Connemara country of Ireland. Here my left knee gave way to the long term troubles I’d been having with it, so I saw a doctor who gave me anti-inflammatory pills, and I bought a cane. Using the latter was a necessary but embarrassing and humiliating experience for a person accustomed to years of fitness regimes. Leaving the family in Galway, I went on to London and its art museums. The ride back to London’s Heathrow was a highpoint due to an intelligent, well-informed and verbal taxi driver from Bangladesh. We talked all the way about social and political issues, as I wondered why this obviously knowledgeable man was driving for hire. When we arrived, I got out paying him, offering my hand to shake and telling him how much I enjoyed the conversation. He seemed taken aback. This was my first encounter with an array of interesting strangers.
At the Oslo airport, I was stunned to hear that the express train into the city was undergoing repairs. I would have to take a bus. Tugging my small bag toward the door, a red-faced gentleman caught up with me, and started asking questions. I realized he was hitting on me, but my noncommittal answers caused him to peel off into a bar. I was pleased, though, to have attracted someone.
Two more men helped me find the right bus, asking the driver to tell me where to get off. It was about a 45 minute trip ending near a cathedral. My hotel was on Mollengata Street, and the driver pointed in a direction. But for a stranger, that wasn’t enough. I asked repeatedly until finally a woman said, “Turn left at the yellow building on the corner.
Hotel Comfort Express immediately revealed itself as a preferred spot for travelers in their twenties to thirties, so the young man with gelled hair standing at what appeared an abbreviated podium that served as “check-in” looked at me with curiosity. Room 712 was clean and simple. I took necessities out of my bag and headed to tourist information. I was determined to see a little of Norway’s famed fjords. To my great relief, the attendant told me I could do an overnight or day trip thereby avoiding more lodging cost and luggage schlepping. Taking brochures to help me decide, I walked back to the hotel finding a small Pakastani-run shop to buy what turned out to be a tasteless ham and cheese Panini washed down with two beers bought from the fashionably punk-haired “concierge.”
Next morning, the first order was to head back to tourist info to book a trip. I had determined to take the overnight excursion on the country’s deepest, longest fjord, but I hadn’t decided on whether to leave the next day Friday or wait until Sunday. (Saturday was not possible.) With the clerk, I debated the pros and cons - mainly the weather forecasts for both dates which were the same – rain. Finally, she said, “Go tomorrow. The forecasters are often wrong.”
Satisfied with my prospects, I wandered off to find the street car to the Vigeland Sculpture Park recommended by a friend. A young mother from Ghana helped me choose the right car and stop. She had lived in Oslo for a couple decades, partly with her young son who was desperately curious about me and wanted to speak but couldn’t because he knew only Norwegian. When we three got off – she was taking the boy to play in the park – she thoughtfully pointed out where I could catch a car back.
The large, rolling-hilled park opened up grandly from a central path-axis. This way and all the others led to the centerpiece composed of Gustav Vigeland’s characteristic dramatically intertwined figurative sculptures. Visitors are drawn toward a fountain and totem-like column of twisting, interlaced bodies. Basking on large, surrounding, open areas were bathers enjoying a day of sun. Determinedly, I trudged up the long staircase to the fountain apex, taking photos along the way like everyone else.
Back in town I sought out the Opera House also on recommendation. What a spectacular building, with a series of sloping ramp-roofs that one can climb for views of the city and harbor. Interestingly this structure combines art forms – opera and dance inside with sculptural, participatory platforms outside where the viewer becomes a performer.
To catch the bus next morning, I got up at 4:30 a.m., showering in the little spare stall that frightened me some since there was nothing to steady my wobbly knee. Arriving early at the appointed stop alongside train tracks, I headed back inside the station, deserted except for a number of Black men sleeping on benches. It was apparently their nightly accommodation, and no one disturbed them.
The bus – again a substitute due to track repair - took us to a small, unattended station about an hour away. Now I was worried about catching the right train and finding the reserved seat in a specific car. I didn’t know the system here, so I tried hooking up with a young Asian girl who had a ticket in her hand that looked like mine. Turned out she had opted for the shorter day trip. A train pulled up. I pointed out the right car for her while frantically looking for mine. Finding it and on board the view from my seat was blocked by a window frame and curtain. As soon as we got underway, the young couple across for me – also with no view – jumped into the empty seat behind me.
What I could see of the scenery was beautiful. It was hilly and somewhat mountainous. Maybe this was what attracted Grandma’s family to the American spot they chose that was also dotted with imposing bluffs and bodies of water. After about an hour, we stopped to change to the famous Flam train - its route known for spectacular vistas. Seemed seats weren’t assigned in these cars, so I grabbed a nice window.
An Asian family joined me. The father was very friendly and outgoing, while his son and wife were less so. The boy had a new camera with the big, protruding, phallus-like lens signaling an expensive piece of equipment. The boy looked to be about fourteen - turned out he was on a short vacation before beginning intensive study for an exam. His father told me he and his wife had spent their honeymoon backpacking and camping in this rugged terrain. Recognizing him as an obviously intelligent and confident man who spoke excellent English, I asked him what he did. He responded that he was a criminal and civil lawyer in Hong Kong. Proudly, I told him my son was also an attorney which he in turn told a chagrinned son who was interested in science.
Surveying the passing countryside, the oddest aspect was the isolated house clinging to a mountainside seemingly shunning civilization. But these were not the shacks of poor or otherwise disenfranchised folks. As the Chinese pointed out the homes were big, modern and well cared for. How did they support themselves? He offered that Norway was rich in oil but how would these people have profited from it? Maybe these were “country homes.”
At one point the train halted on the overpass over a steep gorge with rushing waterfall. Though it was pouring rain, everyone got out. I did too, stepping carefully to take a couple pictures, and quickly retreating back toward the train. “No,” an older woman said to me. “Wait, it’s the Norwegian experience.” Just about then, music made its way through the downpour. Then a woman in a long crimson robe appeared on a rocky ledge and took a dramatic pose. She did this three times on as many craggy outcroppings, the music ceased and we all got back on board having witnessed the “experience.”
Afterward, looking out the window at yet another lone house stuck precariously on a mountainside, I suggested to the boy that maybe these were just stage sets that could be hastily put up when the tourist train came by and taken down afterward. He smiled, and then offered, “Maybe they have a computer and can just click to raise the walls.” We laughed at this. I told his father the story that his son and I had conjured. He was delighted and the boy smiled shyly and proudly. Now I was his best friend.
This train ride stopped along the interior end of the longest, deepest fjord where the boats gathered passengers. The location had drawn a little, conspicuously tourist-oriented village consisting of half dozen gift shops and at least that many restaurants. When I sat down with one of Norway’s long sausage sandwiches, the boy came grinning after me. He was obviously still pleased with what I told his Dad. He asked me what I was eating, declaring “I will get the same,” and ran off.
With nothing else to do in the rain, like everyone else there I shopped for a few presents. Finally I saw people lining up under umbrellas beside a boat, and I joined them in the downpour. Whole groups began to go in together, and the woman beside me pushed to be one of them but the ticket-taker wasn’t having it. He held her back behind me. The top deck looked ideal, but halfway up I could see it was already crowded, so I chose a window seat below.
After awhile, a couple took the two seats beside me. They were a fit, good-looking pair probably in their mid-to-late forties. She struck up a conversation asking where I was from, and then not believing I was American. Later I wished I’d asked why she so firmly rejected my origin. Instead we talked about her two daughters and her ambitions as a triathlon athlete beginning what promised to be an interesting chat.
About half hour or so into the trip, I suddenly became aware of two big TV screens set up in front. They showed a reporter standing on a city street and with a strip running below announcing an explosion in Oslo. I thought maybe it was a gas explosion, but pretty soon, the same strip said it was a bomb. That much Norwegian I could make out. The woman beside me translated that it was a “huge” explosion. Her daughter called on her cell to see if she and her husband were okay.
Then the screens showed the little yellow building that marked the turn onto my hotel street. At first I thought it must be another yellow structure, but the more it was shown and as cameras cruised down the little street, I realized it was my street. “Damn, the hotel must have been destroyed,” I thought. The woman tried to comfort me telling me the hotel was probably okay. Then she and her husband got off at one of the several stops the boat made. Later I regretted the interruption and not getting to know them better, but I had become frozen with anxiety. Now I was talking to Clara and Hannah big time. “Thank you for putting me on this boat instead of in the hotel street. But why this now while I’m here? What are you trying to tell me? I’m going to need your help getting back.”
It was hard to focus on our smooth glide down this largest fjord. Rain was heavy outside. Some young kids ventured out on the foredeck, bracing their bodies against the wind and water. It was a little like being in a submarine. The inward-turning atmosphere only contributed to my apprehension. The boat forged onward, stopping now and then and passing breathtaking vistas of mountains, waterfalls and the occasional house. The water was dark, not only because of the sky, but reflective of the very deep glacial gorge it filled.
After about an hour, the TV began to show an island. “The perpetrator must have escaped there, and they’re pursuing him,” I thought. The news switched back and forth to anxious looking reporters standing in front of streets filled with broken glass, police manning barricades, bloodied civilians hit by debris and this island that was named Utoya according to the caption.
Another woman moved into my seat bank. She was Italian – I could tell from my limited knowledge of the language she used talking with two other women in front of us. She seemed somewhat peeved when I got up to find the toilet, to get water, and as we seemed to approach our destination – a sandwich. It was close to 8 p.m., and I didn’t know where the night train back to Oslo would be or if I could get food anywhere.
At the dock, there were no trains or tracks in sight. I thought this was going to be simple and convenient. I started hobbling as fast as I could after passengers who seemed to be heading in one direction. They must be going to the train. Then I lost sight of them, so I started asking passersby. In about half an hour I found the station, but my train wouldn’t leave for another 2 hours. Inside most shops were closed except for one of Norway’s omnipresent 7-Elevens.
When I bought more water from the young clerk, I tried to get information on Oslo. To my surprise, he told me that a few people, maybe 8, had been killed by the explosion, but that another 80 had been shot by a lone gunman on the island of Utoya. “Something like that could never happen here in Bergen,” he said confidently. “Hey, I retorted, “It wasn’t supposed to happen in Oslo.”
Waiting on one of the station’s wooden benches, I tried to watch fellow passengers straggling in. The train track was listed, eventually a train appeared and a few workers started walking around it. “Oh oh,” I felt the urge to use a bathroom again, and not wanting to be jostled about in a small, smelly train compartment I looked around for one in the station. Following a sign, I went into a narrow hallway filled with four or five young people sitting on the floor in front of the WC. But the toilet doors were coin operated. Noticing my distress, one young fellow said, “Don’t worry. Use that one. It’s always open.” He was right, but I wondered why they chose this dank little corridor as their meeting place. Apparently they knew it well. Exiting, I thanked him again, to which he replied with not a little gallantry, “It was my pleasure.”
One thing I had already noticed in London and now Norway was the politeness of the people. It didn’t matter if it was a fellow traveler, a shop keeper or a bystander. They all reacted to my questions with, “Of course,” “Sure,” or “Absolutely.” It wasn’t like that in New York. I’d spent years defending the city when strangers remarked on its “rudeness,” but now I realized they were right. Plus I’d also noted the cleanliness of other cities in comparison to my adult hometown.
Finally, a barricade was removed and we could get on the train. Luck of the draw, my reserved seat would travel me backwards. I watched the opposite seats hoping I could exchange, but just before we left, three young people took them. They were a handsome trio, well dressed in what appeared to be the latest skiing garb. She was a pretty blond girl, the younger man was attracted to her and the slightly older man obviously enthralled the girl. The older one sat in the middle, and as the train raced through the darkness, she laid her head on his shoulder.
Blankets and blindfolds were provided, so I put it all on and tried to sleep. A couple hours into the trip, the trio’s leader jostled the other two awake. They gathered their things, the train stopped briefly seemingly in the middle of nowhere, and they got off.
Now was my chance. I eased over into her seat by the window. Not long after the woman beside me took my seat. Now we were all comfortable.
As usual, given the track repairs, the train stopped outside Oslo, and we all tramped onto buses. My fear was rising now, and as luck would have it, my bus had a bad transmission. It barely chugged up hills, as the other two buses shot past.
In Oslo at 6 a.m. and beside the train station once again, the city seemed empty. The rain had returned and was heavy, so I went inside. Near the doors, a few of us waited as the heavens opened. Soon I got antsy and set out in the rain. “Norway is crying,” I thought as I tried to manage umbrella and cane, and pleaded, “Clara and Hannah I need your help now.”
Approaching the corner with the little yellow building, I could see that it was barricaded and manned by the military. This guard like three more at subsequent barricades kept telling me to ask if I could pass at the next. Finally, I said, “I need medication that’s in my hotel,” a strategy I’d devised while waiting on the boat. I thought a woman my age, white hair with cane would be believed. The young man walked over to talk to his commander, and I went with him. “Get a taxi,” they said.
Turning around to empty streets, there were no cars, people or taxis. I started back toward the police when “voila,” one of Oslo’s black cabs came down the street. Hailing him with my cane, he stopped and I told him I wanted to go to Comfort Express Hotel. He drove east and then north as I thought he would until we came out at the block above the hotel. “The owner just arrived,” the cabbie told me. “That’s him by the car.” I have no idea how he knew this.
There was a wire fence, but no guards, so I slipped through at the end, walking up to the very tall man – many Norwegians, male and female are exceptionally tall. He was talking on his cell standing next to a big SUV.
“I was staying at your hotel. My things are in there, and I need medication.”
“Okay, I will have someone pack your things and bring them out for you.”
“Great.” I was relieved. Even though when traveling I always carried the necessities – passport, billfold, tickets – on my body, it was a comfort to get my other things. What’s more, after hours of waiting to see what would transpire, something finally was happening.
“What’s your room number?”
“712.”
He spoke to someone, and in minutes a young man came down. I forgot I had the key to my suitcase which I kept locked when not in residence. I handed him my key ring, and he presented me with three bags of vitamins and a bottle of water. Evidently, the owner had told him I needed medicine. Embarrassed at having my lie exposed, I said I didn’t need them immediately.
As we waited, I asked the owner about his hotel. Turned out though the front plate glass and some ornamental metal beams had been broken, the hotel was structurally intact. He told me that it had been recently opened and that this building was one of a chain he and his partner had begun opening early in the year. His idea he told me was to figure out “what tourists didn’t need.” They could then offer rooms at a lower price by cutting down on supplies and overhead. I told him I thought it was a “genius idea.” Maybe I overstated it in my anxiety, but I did believe people like me wouldn’t mind not having their towels and sheets changed every day.
The young guy came down with my suitcase, the owner loaded it into his car and took me straight to another hotel – actually a more expensive and full service one nearer the train station – where he must have secured arrangements for his now homeless hotel guests. Police would cordon off the entire area for several days.
At the reception desk the young clerk told me his cousin had “swam for his life” from Utoya. Because of the size of the city and the country, it quickly became clear that everyone knew someone or knew someone who knew someone involved in the tragedy. He gave me keys to what turned out to be a tiny room on the 11th floor and told me I could have the free breakfast in their dining room.
I rode the gleaming glass and brass elevator to my floor looking down at the huge dining area. At the top, my room was a small but comfortable garret. After taking a shower, I tried but wasn’t able to nap. Too much adrenaline flowing. So I went down to check the breakfast. They had everything: waffles you cooked yourself, sausages, eggs, fruit, yogurt, cereal, cheese, bread, etc. Knowing that my new quarters had a small refrigerator, I stocked up for dinner trying to hide cheese and bread in napkins. Nobody appeared to care one way or the other, so on other mornings, I grabbed more.
Restless, I walked out onto the street, got my bearings and headed up the main street called Karl Johans Gate. As I walked near the cathedral I saw a small cluster of people placing flowers off to the side of the entry.
I decided to head north and east to an area that housed little craft shops according to a tourist brochure. Maybe I could find gifts there. Like my Grandmother, I liked giving. So I set out, but soon lost my bearings. Everyone I asked seemed to tell me a different direction, so finally I started to backtrack. The rain started up again, and most every store was closed anyway. Back by the cathedral, the bed of flowers had grown to about a ten foot circle. A few people stood around, quiet, their heads bowed.
A drink seemed in order, so I started to try to find a bar not crowded with other tourists. There didn’t seem to be any liquor stores, and all the super markets were closed. Eventually, I happened on a bar around the corner from the train station that looked like it was frequented by a few locals. When the barmaid negotiated my card through her old machine, I ordered rum and coke – “a double.” Then I sat alone at a table and wrote a few postcards. This was a habit acquired from my Mother who when we took a rare short trip out of town, always wrote cards to three or four family members. This tradition I carried on writing to 25-30 people on every trip. Years before it was cheap to send a card - by this time it had gotten expensive – maybe a dollar plus per card. However, people seemed to enjoy being thought of, and I knew that I liked receiving cards from friend-travelers.
Afterward, I went back to the hotel and asked the receptionist if he knew of any place where I could buy wine or beer. Of course, he said the room mini-bar, and I protested the expense. Then he said supermarket and that there might be one open in the train station. Huh! I didn’t think of a market there. Searching the premises, I found the big one that was closed but wandering into a connected mall, there was another smaller store. They had beer!
Back in the room, BBC was all over the Oslo situation, but I switched back and forth among the British and local stations. Already I had learned with not a little relief that the perpetrator was white, not Black as a good part of the world might not only have expected but welcomed. Pictures were appearing now of a native Norwegian whose name was Anders Behring Breivik. “What a nice looking young man,” I thought first seeing this blond 32-year-old posed casually and fashionably in yellowish shirt and black sweater. Why would someone good-looking and apparently at least somewhat aware of the world around him want to wreck that much havoc? He looked like he could have been a model. Certainly, he did not appear to be crazed, hallucinatory, deranged or a reclusive misanthrope.
Typically, the media coverage repeated the footage chosen to attract attention: the photo of the killer, pictures of the island dotted with white sheets covering bodies, and views of Oslo streets filled with broken glass. Intermittently, there would be interviews with bloodied bystanders, island escapees and with police officials who seemed pretty savvy in holding many press conferences. If they spoke Norwegian, sometimes there would be captions, sometimes not. The emergent story was the same: A man had set an explosion in Oslo, then donning a police uniform he moved swiftly to the island of Utoya where a “youth camp” was being held and where he shot every kid he could find. He even aimed into piles of dead bodies in case someone was hiding beneath and at the kids who tried to swim away. Evident was his planning. He had stockpiled fertilizer at his farm in order to make explosives, he chose a public building hoping to kill the Prime Minister as well as others, and he put on a police uniform in order to deceive the young people.
Such carefully laid plans indicated a very strong focus which in Breivik’s case was political. He went after the Prime Minister because of his liberal position and after a likewise liberally oriented youth camp – an annual affair devoted to young people’s discussions of democracy and other issues. In particular, Breivik had ruminated about Muslim immigration to his country that had historically taken pride in its open, democratic policies. Though the Muslim immigrants made up only a small percentage of the population, they did constitute the biggest non-Norwegian segment. According to the police and his lawyer, Breivik, fueled by right-wing, conservative blogging in America thought he was “saving” his country. Technology that had helped create the “Arab spring” had here resulted in a deadly summer. The attorney added that he thought the prisoner was “insane.” Perhaps most shocking to Norwegians was the fact that “one of their own” had attacked the very institutions and convictions that identified and defined them as a nation.
Sunday, I resumed my museum tour by setting out for and reaching the Edvard Munch Museum. A modernist 1960s box-like structure next to a botanical garden and natural history museum – the setting seemed opposed to the quite tortured feeling of the art work. Though I always admired Munch, I was further fascinated by the range of his creativity in printmaking as well as painting. He had cut out parts of a wooden block in order to juxtapose colors and his application of paint – alternately thin and dry or thick and juicy – was at times careful and in other instances fast and loose. Mostly, he used cross-hatched or parallel strokes of the brush, and for certain images he seemed to slap paint on canvas with unbridled vigor and emotion.
Afterward, drained as usual from so much visual stimulation, I wandered over into the park and through greenhouses looking at tropical plants and flowers. At one point I asked a middle-aged, kind of scruffy-looking man who had a camera to use mine in taking a photo of me next to some plant life. Before he did, he said, “Everyday I photograph flowers.” “That’s great,” I responded thinking to myself, “Wow, what a wonderful way to spend a life.”
Wandering back to town and hungry, I stopped in a little 7-eleven and ordered one of the long sausages. I chose a mottled as opposed to a smooth skinned one. The clerk said, “Hamburger?” Aha, so it wasn’t sausage after all. But biting in, it certainly didn’t taste like beef – more like pork.
Monday, all the museums were closed. Though I assumed I wouldn’t be able to get in, I started up to the National Gallery, passing the ever increasing expanse of floral tributes by the cathedral, plus the burgeoned presence of media vans, tents and trucks. The museum was right off Karl Johans, and sure enough it was closed. So I wandered south and slightly west past Oslo University and toward City Hall. Along this route, there were many stores but most were still closed except for a few tourist places.
A sweater was a personal goal gift, and in one shop there was a red Scandinavian looking number for about $60. This was a much better price than any others I had seen – probably because it was cotton, not wool. Since I’d always avoided wool as too scratchy anyway, I bought it, plus several pairs of men’s socks with moose on them as gifts. I had noticed on my several bus rides that in Norway there were “Moose Crossings,” rather than “Deer Crossings,” so it seemed an appropriate souvenir-type present.
Beyond the large castle-like city hall was a little harbor. Having grown up near and always liking bodies of water – all those trips on the Mississippi - I walked along it passing some ancient-appearing walls in the process.
Back in the hub near the station, I bought a small rose plant. It was impossible to remain aloof from the overwhelming mood of connectivity. Trudging back to the cathedral through another bout of rain and around the quite large, gathered crowd, I slipped under the chain link fence that had become useless guarding a grassy lawn that was now a muddy plot. Setting my little pink flower at the edge of the floral sea punctuated with lit candles, teddy bears , photos, flags and messages, I stood back to view the solemn group as well as the myriad of media trucks and reporters toting gigantic cameras on their shoulders and thrusting microphones into people’s faces. You could hear the rain fall.
Back in the hotel, all the stations were focused on the arraignment of Breivik at court. Media had gathered from China, Dublin, London, America and elsewhere. There were views inside the courthouse of police and others standing around waiting. Finally, there appeared two plain, black vehicles led by one motorcycle in front, followed by one behind. It was hard for me to believe when it was announced that this was the cortege carrying the prisoner. In NYC, entire city blocks would have been “frozen,” there would have been helicopters churning up the sky, multiple armored vehicles and a whole cavalcade of heavily armed cops lining the streets, peering from atop of buildings and riding four or five abreast on cycles. Having witnessed many of these displays of strength, it was amazing to see this understated arrival.
That night, a “Vigil against Violence” was held in front of the government building I had walked by earlier. I watched on television as hundreds of thousands of people from all over the nation gathered in a show of solidarity for their shared beliefs in an open, democratic society. This was such a contrast to my experience in New York and America after 9/11. There were no angry outbursts, threats and vows to kill - no outcries against people of other religious, political or social persuasions. Instead, entertainers led the crowd in what were apparently well-known songs and politicians or officials spoke about unity and the proudly held values of Norwegian people. No, I don’t understand the language and there weren’t always sub-titles, but the mood of moral and spiritual unity was unmistakable.
Almost every person present in this sea of sadness carried a red or white rose, raising the flowers whenever something meaningful was said or sung. It was a moving sight that brought tears to my eyes thinking about all those young lives lost, the terror experienced by them and those who had survived and the families suffering unspeakable loss.
My last full day in Oslo, I went back to the now-open National Gallery. Though it contains a light smattering of historical and Modernist works as well as a good representation of Norwegian artists, this place mostly depends upon its own rich holdings of native son Munch’s paintings, including “Madonna,” “Puberty,” and “The Scream” (returned after its theft a couple years ago).
Desperate now for a gift for my son and daughter-in-law, I found an odd little salt and pepper shaker/grinder that seemed to me to epitomize the smoothly simple lines and pure colors of Scandinavian design. Sure enough, the clerk said it was conceived by a Norwegian design group. She went on to say that if I was interested in local concepts I should visit the Center for Norwegian Design a few blocks away. Turned out it was loaded with slick, curvilinear and unadorned objects, but in the end I went back for the $83 (!) salt and pepper.
Next I headed for the Contemporary Museum immediately identifiable by its Richard Serra sculpture in front. They had a show of installations that ran the gamut of that genre. One artist had made a piece he called “Bird in Space” – the title recalling sculpture by Constantin Brancusi. The installed version entailed the bird’s taped flight recorded from a camera attached to a pigeon. Another work called “The Wells” consisted of recorded views down into a well projected on the museum floor. These art works might seem inconsequential, even meaningless given the immediate disaster here and in light of a larger global accommodation of subterfuge and bigotry. Increasingly in my musings about American artistic modernism, “silly” was gaining credence as an appropriate word. On the other hand, perhaps such art absolutely reflected the social confusion, politically wrecked havoc and grand absurdity of the modern world at large.
After a glass of white wine in a bar near the train station, I returned to the hotel to pack and watch the beleaguered police hold yet another press conference. People are wondering why it took so long – over an hour – to get to Utoya, why there was no helicopter available to take them there, and why an overloaded police boat had to be aborted for a private boat. There were also questions about why Brevick hadn’t been under surveillance and whether or not he acted alone. Finally, one officer simply said, “You know we’re only human beings under these uniforms.” In fact, they were a small force with minimal equipment because no one ever thought a disaster of this magnitude could happen here.
My final morning, I had some coffee and then set out for the airport bus beside the train station. As I approached, I noticed a crowd of people in front. Someone told me, “They’ve evacuated the station because of a bomb scare.” Welcome to the 21st century.
As usual, the bus runs to a train station about half hour outside the city. There we’re supposed to catch a train, but there aren’t any due to the Oslo station bomb scare. So what now? Someone apparently in charge yells out that everyone will have to take taxis. This instruction appeared ludicrous in a little town where there seemed to be taxi service of 2-3 cars for the remaining 45 minute drive to the airport. Obediently, we lined up, standing for about twenty minutes, when another attendant yelled that buses were coming as a double-decker version drove up.
Choosing a seat beside a nice-looking Norwegian man preoccupied with his cell, I watched as authorities came on board and took a young Black man who apparently doesn’t have a ticket off the bus. “Oh no,” I thought, “I don’t have a ticket either.” But I am white. Told we’d buy them at the train station, I forgot about it when we were told to board taxis and then buses. As it turned out no one ever checked for tickets except for the Black kid who was thought to be suspicious-looking.
As we settled into the trip, my seating companion and I began conversing. Turns out he’s a manager for a relatively new inland fish farming company. He’s on his way to South America having just returned from the states where he says the Oslo incident was all over the papers. His daughter who was supposed to go to the Utoya camp had elected to go to Greece instead. Her father was at first perplexed and now relieved by her decision. Once again, everybody had a story and knew someone close to the havoc.
In the process of leaving, my Grandmother and her Mother were in my mind, and after telling this stranger that I had come to Norway because of them, I began to question him anxious that my trip hadn’t revealed enough information.
“What does “ufdah” mean? Do you still use this word?”
“Yes, it means like ‘oops.’”
“Do people still eat lutefisk here?
“Yes, of course, all the time. We have it on holidays.”
“My grandmother used to serve it on Christmas Eve with spareribs.”
“We don’t eat it so much at Christmas, but on other family occasions with probably pork roast.”
He added, ”We don’t open gifts and celebrate so much on Christmas Day, as we do Christmas Eve.”
Surprised, I said, “That’s what we did too. We always went to Grandma’s on Christmas Eve and opened our gifts. We never did it the next day.”
Then, I pondered out loud, “I wonder where she got the lutefisk.”
“She probably made it.”
“How stupid can I be,” I thought, “of course she made it.” To me it had seemed so strange, so exotic, that it had to have been imported from elsewhere.
Afterward, I wondered why I asked such mundane questions, when in fact I had learned more important things that didn’t have to do with a word or a food. I had observed a kinship with flowers and nature as well as an open and polite attitude toward foreigners. But most significantly, I had witnessed an indomitable spirit, a unity and a positive sense of human purpose.
Arriving at the airport, I wished my fellow bus passenger luck in catching his plane and wandered around trying to decide what to do for the next two hours. “Really, in the future you must force yourself to wait until nearer the takeoff time.” A young Black man with dreads had laid out two babies taking up as many benches. My sore knee was tired, so I walked up and he moved one child. His white wife came back bearing water. They both were vigilant over the soundly sleeping children.
Across from us, a couple walked up to sit on stools at one of the high dining tables for on-the-move travelers. She looked to be in her late twenties and him to be in his early forties. He was red-faced, anxious-looking and all over her. His hands caressed her back, her buttocks, her chest and breasts. He leaned in to kiss her. Through it all, she seemed reserved, holding back, barely tolerating his advances. When the mixed couple carried their kids off, her eyes followed the Black man. The boyfriend looked too in dismay. Obviously, the whites were bound for breakup - he was much too desperate.
Shortly before the flight counter opened I bought water and a sandwich, thinking that there might not be any refreshments before the stop in Iceland. I was right.
As the plane lifted past the masses of pine trees, I invoked Clara and Hannah again. I knew they had been here in Oslo with me. “I did bring you back,” I told them. “My eyes have been your eyes, and you showed me who you were, who I am even through chaos.”
Friday, December 16, 2011
A relevant "Intervention" on Wall Street by Laura Anderson Barbata
As part of the Moko Jumbies project, Anderson Barbata and the Brooklyn Jumbies towered over the Financial District in a performance that incorporated stilt dancers wearing 12ft high business suits, music and a collaborative spirit.
Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84E877vGkpc&feature=g-upl
“Intervention: Wall Street” was conceived as a response to the dire economic crisis that became most evident in 2008 and which today afflicts not only Americans but has impacted 99% of the global population. Financial speculation and banking abuses by the largest and most powerful institutions on Wall Street have brought misery to individuals, institutions and to entire countries. In this public performance, Laura Anderson Barbata and the Brooklyn Jumbies brought to the Financial District of New York a world-wide practice to remind viewers of the global impact of this crisis and the urgent need to elevate and change the values and practices of the New York Financial Industry.
In Western Africa, Moko is a spirit who watches over his village, and due to his towering height, is able to foresee danger and evil. In Africa, the Moko Jumbie (stilt dancer) is traditionally called in to cleanse and ward off evil spirits that have brought with them disease and misfortune to a village. On the other side of the Atlantic, in Oaxaca, Mexico, the Zancudos (stilt dancers) perform once a year to call upon the power of their saints to receive protection, blessings, and miracles. In the same spirit of warding off evil and seeking a change in the mindset of those causing misfortune, Laura Anderson Barbata and the Brooklyn Jumbies intervened on Wall Street.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Short story, "Santa's Last Night"
Lutefisk has to be one of the most unappetizing foods – at least to a seven year old American. To me as a kid, it smelled badly – a sour aroma, looked ugly - a gelatinous mass and tasted awful - like eating something that should have been thrown out. Nonetheless it’s a traditional delicacy in Norway, and my Norwegian Grandmother always fixed it for Christmas Eve along with spareribs and some sort of sweet rolls. She did all this on a wooden cook stove before the family sat around the oil cloth covered table in her warm kitchen subtly permeated with smoke.
Throughout the meal, my year-younger cousin Clarence and I impatiently waited for Santa Claus to come to the door. Mysteriously, after this late afternoon dinner, our Dads disappeared. We didn’t pay much attention to their absence being riveted by the prospect of a gift from Santa, and we didn’t notice either when Clarence’s Mom - my Aunt Harriet, would become nervous and make calls on the telephone. She’d come away announcing that Santa was on his way, he’d come in fifteen-twenty minutes.
Finally, after what seemed an eternity, there’d be footsteps on the front stoop, and we’d hear sleigh bells and a “Ho, ho, ho.” In he’d stomp in his red suit and white beard, looking like we expected but frightening us nonetheless.
“Can you sing a song for Santa?” he’d say, and Clarence and I would shyly sing something, maybe Jingle Bells or part of Silent Night. Then out of his bag, he’d produce a couple presents for each of us, and with more “ho ho’s” and “Merry Christmases” he’d be gone.
One of these nights, I became suspicious. I don’t remember why but I went out to the car where Dad was waiting and told him I didn’t think that was really Santa. It sounded like Uncle Ole, Clarence’s Dad to me. Dad not wanting to lie confirmed my suspicions.
When my Mother got in the car and realized he had told me the truth, she was furious. “Why did you tell her? Now she’s going to tell Clarence.”
But I was quiet when we drove Harriet and Clarence home. As it happened I didn’t have to tell him.
When they turned on their kitchen light, there was Santa passed out on the floor. Imagine how Clarence must have felt seeing his drunken father in a Santa Claus suit sprawled out unconscious.
Then we were told that Harriet had sewn the costume herself and after Ole started playing Santa, other people in our little Midwestern town having found out, invited him to come to their houses as well. Heavyset, jovial and unabashed at playing the role, Ole eventually accumulated maybe half dozen stops. At each place they gave him a beer or two and/or a few shots of whiskey. As the driver or “reindeer” my Dad also got snockered. My Grandmother’s home was Santa and Rudolph’s last stop, so by that time they were feeling no pain.
That time many years ago was Santa’s last night when we left a tender moment behind. Writing this, I’m looking at a picture of Clarence, another cousin Tootie, Santa and myself standing in front of a pretty scraggly looking tree – not one of today’s carefully manicured versions - in the living room of my Grandma’s house. I’m not sure if that was the night or not, but maybe it was.
Judy Collischan
New York, 11/11/11
Friday, August 13, 2010
Live Links for "Made in the U.S.A."
The following is a list of live links for my book, "Made in the U.S.A." The e-text and hard copy is available from iUniverse.com and the hard copy is also available from Amazon.com
Suggested Viewing
Note: As often as possible, each entry includes artist's name, title of work, date of work, media, dimensions and collection. For the e-book, readers may click on links to view work. For the hard copy version, the reader may find illustrations by searching the web 1) under artist's name and title of work, 2) under artist's name, title of work and “images”, 3) at the museum or artist's web site or 4) under the artist's name plus the word “online” which will give you a list of museums holding the artist's work in their permanent collections. Please be aware that not all museums have their collections on line, and most do not image every piece. When appropriate links have been made to a video sharing website.
Chapter 1.
Alexandre Cabanel. The Birth of Venus. 1863. Oil on canvas, 52 x 90”.
Musee d’ Orsay, Paris
Gustav Courbet. The Spring. 1868. Oil on canvas, 50 ½” x 38 ¼”. Musee
d’ Orsay, Paris
Edouard Manet. The Luncheon on the Grass. Oil on canvas, 82 x 104 ½”.
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
Claude Monet. Grainstack (Sunset). 1891. Oil on canvas, 28 7/8 x 36 ½”.
Eadweard Muybridge. The Horse in Motion. 1878. Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?pp/PPALL:@field%28NUMBER+3a08776%29%29
Hilaire-Germain Edgar Degas. A Ballet Seen from an Opera Box. c. 1884.
Pastel on paper, 25 3/4 x 19 7/8”. John G. Johnson Collection,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/102809.html?mulR=10888
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Nude in the Sunlight. 1876. Oil on canvas, 31 ¼
x 25”. Musee d'Orsay, Paris
http://klp.pl/admin-malarstwo/images/grafiki/5321.jpg
Mary Cassatt. The Child's Bath. 1893. Oil on canvas, 39 ½ x 26”. The Art
Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_6_lg.shtml
Camille Pissarro. Place du Theatre Francais, Paris: Rain. 1898. Oil on
canvas, 29 x 36”. Minneapolis Institute of Arts
http://www.artsmia.org/viewer/detail.php?v=12&id=129
Auguste Rodin. Monument to Balzac. 1898 (cast 1954). Bronze, 9’3” x 48
1/4” x 41”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Antonio Canova. Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix. 1805-08. Marble,
lifesize. Galleria Borghese, Rome.
http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/epaolinab.htm
Georges Seurat. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
1884-86. Oil on canvas, 6’9 1/2” x 10’1 ½”. The Art Institute of Chicago.
http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/pages/IMP_7_lg.shtml
Katsushika Hokusai. South Wind, Clear Dawn (Red Fuji) from series
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. 1830-31. Color woodblock print, 10 x 14
3/8”. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http://www.lacma.org/japaneseart/prints/prints.htm
Vincent Van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas, 28 ¾ x 36 ¼”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79802
Paul Gauguin. Spirit of the Dead Watching. 1892. Oil on burlap
mounted on canvas, 28 ½ x 36 3/8”. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
New York
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/gauguin/spirit.jpg.html
Paul Cezanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine. c. 1882. Oil on canvas,
26 ¼ x 36 1/4”. Courtauld Institute of Art, London
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/9865405b.html
Pierre Bonnard. The Bath. 1925. Oil on canvas, 34 x 47”. Tate Gallery,
London
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1311&searchid=10250&tabview=image
Edouard Vuillard. Two seamstresses in the Workroom. 1893. Oil on
millboard , 5 x 7 1/2”. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/index.php/collection/online_az/4:322/results/0/8936/
Maurice Denis. Landscape with Green Trees. 1893. Oil on canvas,
18 x 16 3/4”. Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Aubrey Beardsley. Salome with the Head of John the Baptist. 1893.
India ink and watercolor, 10 7/8 x 5 ¾”. Princeton University Library,
New Jersey
http://www.middernacht.be/udn/images/salome_aubrey_beardsley.jpg
Gustav Klimt. The Kiss. 1907-8. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 71 x 71”.
Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Egon Schiele. Nude Self-Portrait. Black chalk, brush, watercolor, bodycolour, opaque white on brown packing paper. Albertina, Vienna
Henri Rousseau. The Sleeping Gypsy. 1897. Oil on canvas, 51 x 81”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=80172
Edvard Munch. The Scream. 1893. Oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 36
x 29”. National Gallery, Oslo, Norway
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/munch.scream.jpg
James Ensor. Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889. 1888. Oil on canvas, 99 1/2 x 169 1/2”. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=932&handle=li
Medardo Rosso. Madame X. 1896. Wax on plaster, 12 x 8 x 9”. Museo
Ca’Pesaro, Venice, Italy
http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it/frame.asp?id=376&musid=1
Plinio Nomellini. Symphony of the Moon. 1899. Oil on
Museum of Modern Art, Venice, Italy
http://digitool.amherst.edu:8881/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=411809&local_base=GEN01
Louis Comfort Tiffany. Bella apartment window. c. 1880. Leaded glass, 24 ¼
x 29 1/2”. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tiff/ho_2002.474.htm
Antoni Gaudi. Park Guell. 1900-14. Barcelona, Spain
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Park_Guell.html
Henri Matisse. Portrait of Madame Matisse. The green line. 1905. Oil and tempera on canvas, 15 7/8 x 12 7/8”. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Andre Derain. The Turning Road, L’Estaque. 1906. Oil on canvas,
51 x 76 ¾”. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Maurice de Vlaminck. Reflection of Sunlight. 1905-6. Oil on canvas, 15
1/16 x 18”. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=22&zoomFlag=0&viewmode=1&item=1975.1.220
Georges Braque. Houses at L'Estaque. 1908. Oil on canvas, 28 ¾ x 23 1/2”.
Kunstmuseum, Bern
http://www.abbeville.com/interiors.asp?ISBN=0789209020&CaptionNumber=08
Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles de Avignon. 1907. Oil on canvas, 96 x 92”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pablo Picasso. Still Life with Chair Caning. 1911-12. Oil and pasted
paper simulating chair caning on canvas, oval, 10 5/8 x 13 4/4”.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso/chaircan.jpg.html
Fernand Leger. The City. 1919. Oil on canvas, 91” x 117 1/2”. The
Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/53928.html?mulR=32062
Franz Marc. The Large Blue Horses. 1911. Oil on canvas, 41 1/2 x 71”.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=265&image_num=1
Alexej von Jawlensky. Head of a Woman. c. 1912. Oil on composition
board, 21 x 19 1/8”. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/Jawlensky_Head.htm
Wassily Kandinsky. Sketch for Composition II. 1910. Oil on canvas, 38 3/8
x 51 5/8”. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Five Tarts. 1914. Woodcut on blotting paper, 19 1/8 x
14 9/16”. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=65946&image=16315&c=
Erich Heckel. Portrait of a Man. 1919. Woodcut, 18 3/16 x 12 3/4”. Museum
of Modern Art, New York
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Pharisees. 1912. Oil on canvas, 29 7/8 x 40 1/2”.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Emil Nolde. Dance Around the Golden Calf. 1910. Oil 7/on canvas, 35 x 42”.
Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Munich
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/N/nolde/golden_calf.jpg.html
Kathe Kollwitz. The Widow I from War, 1922-23, printed 1924. Woodcut, 14
5/8 x 9 5/16”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Paula Modersohn-Becker. Self-Portrait, Half-Figure with Amber Necklace. 1906. Oil on canvas, 24 x 19 1/2”. Kunstmuseum Museum, Basel http://80.74.155.18/eMuseumPlus?http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/36/38936-004-DA75102F.jpg+http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/36/38936-004-DA75102F.jpg=================================yg7service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.inline.list.t1.collection_list.$TspTitleImageLink.link&sp=13&sp=Sartist&sp=SfilterDefinition&sp=0&sp=6&sp=1&sp=SdetailView&sp=30&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=T&sp=0&sp=SdetailList&sp=0&sp=F&sp=Scollection&sp=l1243
Georges Rouault. Two Nudes (The Sirens). 1906/08. Gouache on paper,
27 x 21 1/2”. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/browse_artist.php?name=Rouault%2C+Georges&resultnum=4
Chaim Soutine. Side of Beef. c. 1925. Oil on canvas, 55 ¼ x 42 3/8”.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/36/38936-004-DA75102F.jpg
Amedeo Modigliani. Nude. 1917. Oil on canvas, 28 ¾ x 45 7/8”. Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Umberto Boccioni. The City Rises. 1910. Oil on canvas, 6’6 1/2” x
9’10 1/2”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Umberto Boccioni. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. 1913 (cast 1931).
Bronze, 43 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 15 ¾”. The Museum of Modern Art,
New York
Gino Severini. The Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin. 1912.
Oil on canvas, with sequins, 63 5/8 x 61 ½”. The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
Natalia Goncharova. Peasants Dancing. 1910-11. Oil on canvas, 36 x 57”.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/Edwardians/Detail.cfm?IRN=156812&ViewID=2
Mikhail Larionov. Rayonist Composition: Domination of Red. 1912-13 (dated
on painting 1911). Oil on canvas, 20 ¾ x 28 1/2”. The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/explore/collection/provenance/items/36.36.html
Alexandra Exter. The City at Night. c. 1919. State Russian Museum, St.
Petersburg
http://www.msi-mall.com/art/avantgarde/pictures/38.html
Alexander Rodchenko. Black on Black. 1918. Oil on canvas, 41 x 28”.
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
http://translate.google.com/translate?langpair=de|
Vladimir Tatlin. Corner Relief. 1915. Presumed destroyed
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/301bg.jpg
Vladimir Tatlin. Monument to the IIIrd International. 1919. Wood
iron and glass. Never built; remnants of this maquette stored in the
Russian Museum, Leningrad
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/302bg.jpg
Sergei Eisenstein. The Battleship Potemkin. 1925.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euG1y0KtP_Q
Kasimir Malevich. Suprematist Composition: White on White. 1918. Oil
on canvas, 31 ¼ x 31 ¼”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=80385
Naum Gabo. Head of a Woman. c. 1917-20 (after a work of 1916). Celluloid
and metal, 24 ½ x 19 ¼ x 14”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Antoine Pevsner. Head of a Woman. c. 1923. Nitrocellulose plastic on plastic-
laminated wood panel 14 3/8 x 9 ¼ x 4 5/8”. Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=11126
Hans Arp. Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of
Chance). 1916-17. Torn-and-pasted paper and colored paper on colored
paper, 19 1/8 x 13 5/8”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kurt Schwitters. Picture with Light Center. 1919. Cut-and-pasted colored
paper and printed paper, watercolor, oil and pencil on cardboard, 33 ¼ x
25 7/8”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hannah Hoch. Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar
Beer–Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany. 1919-20. Photomontage and
collage with watercolor, 44 7/8 x 35 7/16”. Staatliche Museum, Berlin
http://arthistory.about.com/od/dada/ig/Dada-at-MoMA---Berlin/Cut-with-the-Kitchen-Knife.htm
Raoul Hausmann. The Spirit of Our Time. 1921. Mannequin's head, traveler's
collapsible cup, measuring devices, typesetting carriage and the No. 22,
height 12 3/4”. Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/716.html
Francis Picabia. I See Again in Memory My Dear Udnie. 1914, possibly begun
1913. Oil on canvas, 98 ½ x 78 ¼”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2. 1912. Oil on
canvas, 57 7/8 x 35 1/8”. Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51449.html?mulR=30645
Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1950/replica of 1917 original). Porcelain urinal,
12 x 15 x 18”. Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/92488.html?mulR=17789
Marcel Duchamp. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
(The Large Glass). 1915-23. Oil, varnish, lead foil, lead wire and
dust on two glass panels, 119 ¼ x 69 ¼”. Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/54149.html?mulR=30120
Piet Mondrian. Trees. c. 1912. Oil on canvas, 37 x 27 7/8”. Carnegie Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh
http://www.cmoa.org/collections/popup/ooobig.html
Piet Mondrian. Tableau 2. 1922. Oil on canvas, 21 7/8 x 21 1/8”. Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Gerrit Rietveld. Red Blue Chair. c. 1923. Painted wood, 34 1/8 x 26 x 33,
seat height 13”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Walter Gropius. Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany. 1919-25
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Bauhaus.html/cid_1136145405_3_32.html
Le Corbusier. Villa Savoye. 1928-29. Concrete and plastered unit masonry.
Poissy, France.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Villa_Savoye.html/cid_2507331.html
Mies van der Rohe. Tugendhat House. 1930. Steel frame. Brno,
Czechoslovakia.
Constantin Brancusi. Sleeping Muse I. 1909-10. Marble, 6 ¾ x 10 7/8 x 8 3/8”. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=4279
Constantin Brancusi. Endless Column, version 1. 1918. Oak, 80 x 9 7/8 x 9
5/8”. Museum of Modern Art (later constructed in larger scale at
Targui Jiu, Romania in 1938 to commemorate Romanian losses in
World War I.
Hans Arp. Enak's Tears, Terrestrial Forms. 1916/17. Painted wood, 16 1/2 x
11 x 2”. Kunstmuseum, Basel
Giorgio de Chirico, Ariadne. 1913. Oil and graphite on canvas, 53 3/8 x 71”.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Carlo Carra, The Metaphysical Muse. 1917. Oil on canvas, 35 x 26”.
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
http://www.artreproductionsmasterpiece.com/carlo-carra-the-metaphysical-muse.html
Marc Chagall. Birthday. 1915. Oil on cardboard, 31 3/4 x 39 1/4”. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Yves Tanguy. Mama, Papa is Wounded! 1927. Oil on canvas, 36 ¼ x
28 ¾”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Rene Magritte. Man with a Newspaper. 1928. Oil on canvas, 45 1/2 x 32”.
Tate Gallery, London
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=9158&searchid=11361&tabview=image
Max Ernst. Celebes. 1921. Oil on canvas, 49 x 42 1/2”. Tate Gallery, London
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=4136&searchid=10929&tabview=image
Salvador Dali. The Persistence of Memory. 1931. Oil on canvas, 9 ½ x
13”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79018
Salvador Dali. Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War).
1936. Oil on canvas, 39 5/16 x 39 3/8” Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51315.html?mulR=17661
Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali. Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog). 1924.
Available at vids.myspace.com
Meret Oppenheim. Object. 1936. Fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon,
cup 4 3/8” diameter, saucer 9 3/8” diameter, spoon 8” long, overall
height 2 7/8”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=80997
Joan Miro. The Harlequin’s Carnival. 1924-25. Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 5/8”.
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
http://66.251.89.230/detail.php?type=related&kv=241&t=objects
Paul Klee. Red Balloon. 1922. Oil on chalk-primed muslin, mounted on
board, 11 ½ x 12 ¼”. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Paul Klee. The Golden Fish. 1925. Oil and watercolor on paper,
mounted on cardboard, 19 1/8 x 27”. Kunsthalle, Hamburg
http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/paint/auth/klee/golden-fish/klee.golden-fish.jpg
Alberto Giacometti. City Square. 1948. Bronze, 8 ½ x 25 3/8 x 17 1/4”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81373
Henry Moore. Interior-Exterior Reclining Figure (model). 1951. Bronze,
height 14”. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpure Garden. Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C.
Barbara Hepworth. Figure: Churinga. 1952. Spanish mahogany, height
49”. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=594&image_num=1
Alexander Calder. Lobster Trap and Fish Tail. 1939. Painted steel wire
and sheet aluminum, height c. 8 ½’, diameter c. 9 ½’. The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=81621
Joseph Cornell. Untitled (Soap Bubble Set). 1936. Box construction, 15 3/4 x
14 ¼ x 5 7/16”. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cornell/soapbubl.jpg.html
Hans Hofmann. Fantasia. 1943. Oil, duco and casein on plywood, 36 5/8 x
51 1/2”. Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
Piet Mondrian. Broadway Boogie-Woogie. 1942-43. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/mondrian.html
Chapter 2.
Marsden Hartley. Portrait of a German Officer. 1914. Oil on canvas, 68
¼ x 41 3/8”. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgl/ho_49.70.42.htm
Patrick Henry Bruce. Composition II. 1916. Oil on canvas, 38 ¼ x
51”. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bruce/bruce_composition2.jpg.html
Isamu Noguchi. Kouros. 1944-45. Marble, 117x 42”. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
Diego Rivera. Day of the Dead. 1924, mural. Ministry of Education, Mexico City.
http://www.fbuch.com/murals.htm
Jose Clemente Orozco. Dartmouth murals. 1932-34. Baker Library, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, New Hampshire
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/orozco/
David Alfaro Siqueiros. The Revolution Against the Porfirian
Dictatorship. 1957-65. Acrylic on plywood. Chapultepec Castle, Mexico
City
http://www.abcgallery.com/S/siqueiros/siqueiros25.html
Frida Kahlo. Broken Column. 1944. Oil on masonite, 16 x 12”. Museo
Dolores Olmedo Patino, Mexico City
http://www.fbuch.com/fridaby.htm
Jacob Lawrence. Migration Series, Panel No. 10: They were very poor.
1940-41. Tempera on gesso on composition board, 12 x 18”. The Museum
of Modern Art, New York
Aaron Douglas. Into Bondage. 1936. Oil on canvas, 60 3/8 x 60 ½”.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
http://www.corcoran.org/collection/highlights_name_results.asp?Artist_ID=54
Archibald J. Motley, Jr. Blues. 1929. Oil on canvas, 31 ½ x 39 ½”.
Collection Archie Motley and Valerie Gerrard Browne
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/motley.html
Romare Bearden. Village of Yo. c. 1964. Collage, 9 x 12 ¼”. Yale
University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/popups/pc_prints/enlarge25.html
Ernest Crichlow. Lovers. 1938. Lithograph, 14 x 11”
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=3AC5EAC3737D80598D51879078B8C822
Elizabeth Catlett. And a Special Fear For My Loved Ones (from the series “ I
am a Black Woman”. 1946, printed 1989. Edition of 20, linocut on cream
wove paper, 8 ¼ x 6”. The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/184343
Robert Blackburn. Girl in Red. 1950. Color lithograph, 18 ¼ x 12 ¼”.
Elizabeth Foundation, New York
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/blackburn/images/bla14-02366r.jpg
Louis Sullivan. Carson Pirie Scott Department Store. 1898-99 and 1902-04,
1905-06 twelve story south addition. Chicago, Illinois
http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/C/Carsons.html
Frank Lloyd Wright. Robie House. 1908-10. Chicago, Illinois
http://www.wrightplus.org/robiehouse/robiehouse.html
Frederick Kiesler. Model for Endless House. 1959. Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York
http://amica.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/AMICO~1~1~125600~82407:Model-for-the-Endless-House?sort=INITIALSORT_CRN%2COCS%2CAMICOID&qvq=q:AMICOID=WMAA.89.8+;sort:INITIALSORT_CRN,OCS,AMICOID;lc:AMICO~1~1&mi=0&trs=1
Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao. American Pavilion, EXPO ’67, Montreal.
1967.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/US_Pavilion_at_Expo_67.html/cid_2892999.html
Frank Lloyd Wright. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 1956-59. Concrete.
New York
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Guggenheim_Museum.html/cid_2165673.html
Le Corbusier. Notre Dame du Haut. 1955. Reinforced concrete. Ronchamp,
France
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Notre_Dame_du_Haut.html/cid_2399158.html
Jackson Pollock. Autumn Rhythm (Number 30). 1950. Oil and enamel on
canvas, 8’10 ½” x 17’. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/na/ho_57.92.htm
Lee Krasner. Untitled. 1949. Oil on composition board, 48 x 37”. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Arshile Gorky. The Liver is the Cock’s Comb. 1944. Oil on canvas, 73 x
98”. Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Gorky_The_Liver_is_the_Cocks_Comb_1944.jpg
Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1950-52. Oil on canvas, 75 7/8 x 58”. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Willem de Kooning. Composition. 1955. Oil, enamel and charcoal on canvas,
79 1/8 x 69 1/8”. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Franz Kline, Four Square. 1956. Oil on canvas, 78 3/8 x 50 ¾”. National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=53091&image=12796&c=
Clyfford Still. 1951-N, 1951. Oil on canvas, 92 5/16 x 69 1/8”. National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=71328&image=17896&c=
Barnett Newman. Onement III. 1949. Oil on canvas,71 7/8 x 33 1/2”. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mark Rothko. Yellow Band. 1956. Oil on canvas, 86 x 80”. Sheldon Museum of
Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
http://www.sheldonartgallery.org/collection/search.html?topic=detail&clct_id=6298
Ad Reinhardt. Abstract Painting. 1960-66. Oil on canvas, 60 x 60”.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Adolph Gottlieb. Imaginary Landscape No. 2. 1956. Gouache on paper, 21 x
29 1/2”. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=7779
Robert Motherwell. Elegy to the Spanish Republic, no. 53. 1953-54. Oil on
canvas, 80 x 100”. Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, New York
http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/Motherwell_s.html
Philip Guston. Oasis. Oil on canvas, 61 ½ x 68”. Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/collection_images/full/66.2288.jpg
Helen Frankenthaler. Mountains and Sea. 1952. Oil and charcoal on canvas,
86 5/8” x 117 ¼”. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/action_abstraction/jm-aa_08_07.htm
Grace Hartigan. Summer Street. 1956. Oil on canvas, 80 ½ x 58 1/4”.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/arts/design/18hartigan.html
Norman Lewis, Phantasy II. 1946. Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 35 7/8”. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Al Leslie. Nix on Nixon. 1960. Oil on canvas, 72 x 79”. Alan Stone Gallery,
New York
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424183991/1018/alfred-leslie-nix-on-nixon.html
Joan Mitchell. Untitled. c. 1956. Oil on canvas, 19 1/8 x 16”.
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington
http://www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum/luce/Top50/50/pages/Mitchell_jpg.htm
Joan Mitchell. Cous Cous. 1961-62. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 78 ¾” x
119 ¾”. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
http://collections.currier.org/Obj56?sid=28085&x=146720
Cy Twombly. Panorama. 1955. Housepaint, crayon and chalk on
canvas, 100 x 134”. Daros Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.daros.ch/COL/GALLERY/col_15.html
Mark Tobey. Eventuality. 1944. Tempera on paper mounted on board,
10 x 14 15/16”. Addison Gallery of Art, Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts
http://accessaddison.andover.edu/Obj4134?sid=660&x=21189
Morris Graves. Bird Sensing the Essential Insanities. 1944. Tempera on
composition board, 26 ¾ x 53 1/4”. Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Julio Gonzalez. Head. c.1935. Wrought iron, 18 1/4 x 17 x 8 1/2”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
David Smith. Hudson River Landscape. 1951. Welded painted steel and
stainless steel, 49 15/16 x 73 ¾ x 16 9/16”. Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York
http://www.whitney.org/www/american_voices/210/index.html
David Smith. Cubi XXVII. 1965. Stainless steel, 111 1/4 x 87 1/4 x 34 1/8”.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
David Hare. Moon Cage. 1955. Welded steel and brass spray, 30 1/8” height.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
Venice, Italy
Claire Falkenstein. Gate. 1962. Iron and colored glass, 8 x 10’. Peggy
Guggenheim Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Venice.
Theodore J. Roszak. Thorn Blossom. 1948. Steel and nickel silver, 32 ¾ x
19 ¼ x 12 ½”. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Herbert Ferber. Calligraph in Cage with Cluster No. 2 II (with Two Heads).
1962. Bronze and copper, 46 x 32 x 36”. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
Minnesota
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=559&image_num=1
Seymour Lipton. Jungle Bloom II. 1956. Monel metal with brazed nickel
silver, 31 1/8 x 29 x 14 1/2”. Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C.
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=14817
Richard Stankiewicz. Kabuki Dancer. 1954. Iron, steel on wood base, 84 x
25 x 26”. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Ibram Lassaw. Kwannon. 1952. Welded bronze and silver, 74 ½” x 45 x 27”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.ibramlassaw.net/images/1951_NebulaInOrion-lg.jpg
Harold Cousins. Hanging Plaiton. 1958. Hammered, welded steel, 62 x
17 x 14”. Cousins estate.
http://www.haroldcousins.com/sculptures/plaitons/id105.htm
John Chamberlain. Dolores James. 1962. Welded and painted steel, 72 1/2 x
101 1/2 x 46 1/4”. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Anthony Caro. Sculpture Three. 1962. Steel, paint, aluminum, 78 ½
x 63 ¾ x 148 ½”. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=539&image_num=1
Louise Bourgeois. Red Night. 1946-48. Oil on linen, 30 x 60”. Daros
Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
http://www.daros.ch/COL/GALLERY/col_17.html#
Louise Bourgeois. Quarantania. 1941. Seven wood elements on wood
base, 84 ¾ x 31 ¼ x 29”. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
http://www.whitney.org/www/american_voices/590/index.html
Louise Nevelson. Untitled. 1954. Painted wood, 24 3/8 x 20 x 3”. Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=10649
Maya Deren. Meshes of the Afternoon. 1943.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid+4002812108181388236#
Asger Jorn. Letter to My Son. 1956-57. Oil on canvas, 51 x 77”. Tate
Gallery, London
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=7759&searchid=11846&tabview=image
Francis Bacon. Three Studies for a Crucifixion. 1962. Oil and sand on canvas,
3 panels, each 78 x 57”. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Jean Dubuffet. Will to Power. 1946. Oil, pebbles, sand, glass and rope on
canvas, 45 ¾ x 35”. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Lucio Fontana. Spatial Concepts: Expectations. 1959. Synthetic
polymer paint on slashed burlap, 39 3/8 x 32”. The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
Chapter 3.
Robert Rauschenberg. Bed. 1955. Oil and pencil on pillow, quilt and
sheet on wood supports, 6’3 ¼” x 31 ½” x 8”. The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
Robert Rauschenberg. Goat. 1955-59. Oil, paper, fabric, printed paper,
printed reproductions, metal, wood, rubber shoe heel and tennis ball
on Angora goat and rubber tire on wood platform mounted on four
casters, 42 x 63 ¼ x 64 ¼”. Moderna Museet, Stockholm
http://www.modernamuseet.se/v4/templates/template1.asp?lang=Eng&id=2421
Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954-55. Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on
plywood, 42 1/4 x 60 5/8”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jasper Johns. Target with Four Faces. 1955. Encaustic on newspaper and
cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted plaster faces in wood box
with hinged front, open 33 5/8 x 26 x 3, canvas 26 x 26, closed box 3 ¾ x
26 x 3 1/3”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Larry Rivers. Camels. c. 1962. Oil on canvas. The Fitzwilliam Museum
Pharos Collection, Cambridge, England
Alex Katz. The Red Smile. 1963. Oil on canvas, 78 ½ x 114 ¾”.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
http://www.ticket.it/minisiti/newyork/Alex_Katz_The_Red_Smile_1963.JPG
Richard Hamilton. Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So
Different, So Appealing? 1956. Collage, 10 ¼ x 9 ¾”. Kunsthalle
Tubingen, Germany
http://htca.us.es/blogs/perezdelama/files/2008/10/hamilton.jpg
Eduardo Paolozzi. St. Sebastian I. 1957. Bronze, 84 x 28 x 14”.
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/index.php/collection/online_az/4:322/results/0/22780/
Andy Warhol. 100 Cans. 1962. Oil on canvas, 72 x 52”. Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/Warhol_l.html
Andy Warhol. Green Marilyn. 1962. Silkscreen on synthetic polymer
paint on canvas, 20 x 16”. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=72039&image=18386&c=
Claes Oldenburg. Plaster Case I. 1961-62. Painted plaster sculptures on
ceramic plates, metal platter and cups in glass-and-metal case, 20 ¾
x 30 1/8 x 14 ¾”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Claes Oldenburg. Floor Burger. 1962. Canvas filled with foam rubber and
paper cartons, painted with Liquitex and latex, 52 x 84”. Art Gallery of
Ontario, Toronto
http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/04autumn/shiff.htm
Tom Wesselmann. Great American Nude #4. 1961. Oil, enamel,
charcoal and pencil with collage of photomechanical reproductions,
cotton, plastic and paper on wood panel, 48 x 48 ¼”. Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=14338
Roy Lichtenstein. Whaam. 1963. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 68” x
160”. The Tate Gallery, London
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=8782&searchid=9669&tabview=image
James Rosenquist. F111. 1964-65. Oil on canvas with aluminum, 23 sections,
10 x 86'. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jim Dine. Red Robe with Hatchet (Self-Portrait). 1964. Oil, metal, canvas,
wood, 87 x 60 x 24”. Richmond Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/collections/85_381.html
Allan Kaprow. 18 Happenings in l6 Parts. 1959. (First performed at the
Reuben Gallery, Fourth Avenue, New York)
http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/18-happenings-in-6-parts/
Lucas Samaras. Untitled. 1963. Mixed media, assemblage/collage,
box, photographs, pins, colored yarn, 10 ¼ x 14 3/8 x 8”.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=image;hex=AC1999_35_48.jpg
Carolee Schneemann. Meat Joy. 1964. Group performance, raw fish, chickens
sausages, wet paint, plastic, rope, shredded scrap paper.
http://www.caroleeschneemann.com/meatjoy.html
Al Leslie and Robert Frank. Pull My Daisy. 1959. 16 mm., 30 min.
http://andel.home.mindspring.com/beatcinema1_notes.htm
Robert Frank. Rodeo, New York City (from The Americans). 1955.
Gelatin silver print, 13 x 9 1/16”. The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phev/ho_1992.5162.3.htm
Bruce Conner. A Movie. 1958.
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/3-9tCeFXOEo/
Yoko Ono. Cut Piece. 1964. Japan and in 1965 Carnegie Hall, New York
http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/cut-piece/
Joseph Beuys. How to Explain Art to a Dead Hare. 1965. Galerie Alfred
Schmela, Dusseldorf, Germany
http://i12bent.tumblr.com/post/85643466/joseph-beuys-how-to-explain-pictures-to-a
Nam June Paik. Zen for TV. 1963, 1976 version. Manipulated vintage
television and components, 19 x 22 ½ x 18”. Smithsonian Museum
of American Art, Washington, D.C.
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=76252
Alison Knowles. Bean Rolls. 1963. Can of texts and beans, 4” square. Edition
of 200. Out of print.
http://www.aknowles.com/beanrolls.html
Ray Johnson. James Dean (Lucky Strike). 1957. Collage on cardboard
panel, 18 x 16”. Estate of Ray Johnson at Richard L. Feigen & Co.,
New York
http://popart.npg.org.uk/art/166674/James_Dean_Lucky_Strike
George Segal. The Diner. 1964-66. Plaster, wood, chrome, laminated plastic,
Masonite, fluorescent lamp, glass, paper, 93 ¾ x 144 ¼ x 96”. Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=753&image_num=1
Marisol Escobar. Women and Dog. 1964. Wood, plaster, synthetic
polymer, taxidermed dog head and miscellaneous items, 72 ¼ x 73 x
30 15/16”. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women2/images/marisol_big.jpg
Marjorie Strider, Peeled III. 1977. Painted cast aluminum, 24 x 18 x 18”
http://www.cultureport.com/cultureport/artists/strider/index.html
Red Grooms with Mimi Gross. Ruckus Manhattan. 1975. Painted three-
dimensional installation
http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/59279/002_Grooms_Ruckus.jpg
Bob Thompson. Tree. 1962. Oil on canvas, 78 3/16 x 108 3/16”. National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=106421
Yayoi Kusama. Infinity Nets. 1951. Ink on paper, 15 ½ x 10 1/8”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Yayoi Kusama. Oven-pan. 1963. Paint, canvas, cotton, steel wood,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=32&image_num=1
Peter Voulkos. Hack’s Rock. 1959. Stoneware on wood base painted
with epoxy resin, 59 5/8 x 24 ¼ x 15”. Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=13959
Paul Soldner. Wall Piece (John Lennon and Playboy). 1969. Raku, 25 ¼ x
18 ½ x 3 1/4”. Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College,
Claremont, California
http://web-kiosk.scrippscollege.edu/OBJ*14$4632?page=14
John Mason. Sculpture. 1961. Stoneware, 42 x 13 ½ 11”. Ruth Chandler
Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, Califronia
http://web-kiosk.scrippscollege.edu/VieO17016$11126*27318
Stephen De Staebler. Clay Furniture. 1969-70. Berkeley Art Museum,
California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stephen_De_Staebler_clay_furniture.jpeg
Robert Arneson. Breast Trophy. 1964. Glazed stoneware, 19 ¾ x 11 ¾
x 8”. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. C.
http://americanart.si.edu/images/1990/1990.74_1a.jpg
Kenneth Price. Orange. 1961. Ceramic painted with lacquer and acrylic on
wood base, 1/12 x 5 ¾ x 5 3/4”. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculptures
Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/collection_images/full/66.4173.jpg
Manuel Neri. Chula. c. 1958-60. Plaster and pigment, 46 x 14 16 ½”.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/3549#
Joan Brown. Nude, Dog, Clouds. 1958-60. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60”.
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
http://americanart.si.edu/images/2005/2005.5.11_1a.jpg
Bruce Conner. Child. 1959. Wax, wood, nylon, cloth, metal, twine and high
chair, 34 5/8 17 16 1/2”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.deardeath.com/art/index.php?file=papm/get_file&pid=2557&size=normal
David Gilhooly. The Pillar of Frog Civilization. 1975. Glazed earthenware, 40
½ 11 1/2”. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
http://www.nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=116230&ViewID=2&GalID=ALL
Viola Frey. Grandmother Figure. 1978-80. Glazed earthenware, 72 x 24
x 18”. Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason collection, Richmond, Virginia
http://www.tfaoi.com/am/9am/9am165.jpg
William T. Wiley. Lame and Blind in Eden. 1969. Watercolor and felt tip pen
on paper, 22 30”. San Jose Museum of Art, California
http://www.sjmusart.org/content/exhibitions/upcoming/exhibition_info.phtml?itemID=351
Edward Kienholz. The Beanery. 1965. Mixed media, 7 x 22 x 6’.
Stedeljk Museum, Amsterdam
http://theochem.chem.rug.nl/~heijnen/Kienholz/Works/Beanery-detail.jpg
Wayne Thiebaud. Cakes. 1963. Oil on canvas, 60 x 72”. National Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=72040&image=18388&c=
Ed Ruscha. Hollywood. 1968. Color screenprint, 12 ½ x 40 ½”. Los
Angeles County Museum of Art
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=48598;type=101
Arman. Journey in France. 1963. Metal sealers from wine bottles in
synthetic resin, 68 ½ x 48 x 2 ¾”. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=3237
Yves Klein. People Begin to Fly. 1961. Dry pigment, synthetic resin on
paper/fabric, 8’1” x 13’ ½”. The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
http://www.menil.org/programs/ricemenil.php
Cesar Baldacinni. The Yellow Buick. 1959. Compressed automobile, 59
½ x 30 ¾ x 24 7/8”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jean Tinguely. Homage to New York. 1960. Constructed and destroyed
at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/homage-to-new-york/
Bridget Riley. Arrest 2. 1965. Acrylic on linen, 76 ¾ x 75”. The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/CollectionDatabase.cfm?id=32298&theme=m_c
Victor Vasarely. Banya. 1964. Gouache on wood, 23 ½ x 23 ½”. Tate
Gallery, London
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=15712&searchid=12100&tabview=image
Josef Albers. Homage to the Square: Apparition. 1959. Oil on masonite, 47
½ x 47 1/2”. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Larry Poons. Via Regia. 1964. Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 72 x 144”.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/collection_images/full/66.4105.JPG
Mies van der Rohe. Seagram Building. 1954-58. Steel frame with curtain wall,
bronze exterior columns, New York
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Seagram_Building.html/cid_2921866.html
Eero Saarinen and Associates. TWA Terminal, JFK International Airport,
1956-62. Concrete, New York
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/TWA_at_New_York.html/cid_twa_ny_mce_113_12.html
Kenneth Noland. Beginning. 1958. Magna on canvas, 90 x 95 7/8”.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/collection_images/full/66.3878.jpg
Morris Louis. Saraband. 1959. Acrylic resin on canvas, 101 1/8 x
149”. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sam Gilliam. Light Depth. 1969, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 75’. Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.corcoran.org/collection/highlights_name_results.asp?Artist_ID=12
Ellsworth Kelly. Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red. 1966. Acrylic on
canvas, five panels, each 60 x 48”. The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York
Frank Stella. Die Fahne Hoch. 1959. Enamel on canvas, 121 ½ x 73”.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
http://www.whitney.org/www/american_voices/240/index.html
Anne Truitt. Insurrection. 1962. Acrylic on wood, 100 x 42 x 16”.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://annetruitt.org/collections/
Barnett Newman. Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue III. 1966-67. Oil
on canvas, 96 x 214”. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jo Baer. Horizontals Tiered (Vertical Diptych). 1966. Oil and synthetic
resin on canvas, 52 x 72”. Blanton Museum of Art at the University
of Texas, Austin
http://blantonmuseum.org/works_of_art/detail.cfm?work=2&sort=an&view=all&startrow=1&id=390&ga=29
Richard Diebenkorn. Ocean Park #54. 1972. Oil on canvas, 100 x 81”.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/4418#
Louise Nevelson. Sky Cathedral. 1958. Painted wood, 11’ 3 ½” x 10 ¼”
X 18”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Lee Bontecou. Untitled. 1962. Welded metals and canvas, 68 x 72 x 30”.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Nancy Grossman. Potawatami. 1967. Leather collage with horse harnesses,
63 x 37 3/4 x 13”. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
http://www.michaelrosenfeldart.com/artists/artists_represented.php?i=3&xl=8672&l=1
Mark di Suvero. BLT. 1966. Steel, wood and tire, 93 x 114”. Museum of
Fine art, Boston
Chuck Ginnever. Dante's Rig. 1964. Aluminum, steel and steel cable, 156 x
180 x 300”. Collection of the artist.
http://www.charlesginnever.net/#
George Rickey. Three Lines. 1964. Stainless steel, 18’ high. DeCordova
Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
http://www.decordova.org/decordova/sculp_park/rickey.html
Dan Flavin. The nominal three (to William of Ockham). 1963. Daylight
Fluorescent light, 6 foot fixtures, 72” high, overall dimensions variable.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Stephen Antonakos. Red Neon from Wall to Floor. 1967. Neon with steel
holds, 118 x 142 x 165”. National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Athens, Greece
http://www.emst.gr/ARTIST.asp?lang_id=ENG&msi1=COLLECTIONS&mssi1=COLLECTIONS-artists&artist_id=71
Richard Artschwager. Table with Pink Tablecloth. 1964. Formica on
wood, 25 ½ x 44 x 44”. The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/146901
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Donald Judd. Untitled. 1969. Cold-rolled steel, six boxes, each 39 3/8 x
39 3/8 39 3/8”, 93/4” between each box. Kunstmuseum Basel,
Switzerland
Tony Smith. Die. Model 1962, fabricated 1968. Steel with oiled finish, 72 x 72
x 72”. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=127623&image=26369&c=
Robert Morris. Untitled (L-Beams). 1965. Stainless steel, three parts,
96 x 96 x 24” overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Sol LeWitt. Serial Project I (ABCD). 1966. Baked enamel on
steel units over baked enamel on aluminum, 20” x 13’7” x 13’7”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ronald Bladen. The X. 1968. Painted aluminum, 22 x 24 x 14', Miami-Dade Art
in Public Places, Florida and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wahington,
D.C.
http://www.miamidade.gov/publicart/photo-mdc-bladen.asp
Carl Andre. 144 Zinc Square. 1967. Zinc plates, each 12” square and 3/8”
thick, overall 144 x 144”. Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
http://www.mam.org/collection/details.php?ID=M1969.22
Agnes Martin. White Flower. 1960. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 72”. The
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Robert Ryman. Untitled. 1965. Oil on linen, 11 ¼ x 11 1/8”. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dorothea Rockburne. Tropical Tan. 1968. Wrinkle finish paint on greased
iron, 4 panels, overall 96 x 144”. Collection of the artist
http://www.dorothearockburne.com/
Brice Marden. D’apr?s la Marquise de la Solana. 1969. Oil and wax on
canvas, 3 panels, overall 77 5/8 x 117 3/8”. The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Robert Mangold. ½ W Series. 1968. Sythetic polymer paint on composition
board, two panels, overall 48 ¼ x 8 1/2”. The Museum of Modern Art,
New York
Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965. Wood folding chair, mounted
photograph of a chair and photographic enlargement of a dictionary
definition of a chair, 32 3/8 14 /8 x 20 7/”. The Museum of Modern Art,
New York
Robert Barry. All the things I know but of Which I am not at the moment
Thinking – 1:36 p.m.; June 15, 1969. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
http://www.leftmatrix.com/barrylist.html
On Kawara. June 16, 1966, “Two Tankers and Two Tugboats crashed in a
Fiery disaster in Lower New York Bay . 1966. From Today series, 1966-
present. Collection of the artist
http://www.diabeacon.org/exhibs_b/kawara/index.html
Lawrence Weiner. The Residue of a Flare Ignited Upon a Boundary. 1969.
Language plus the materials referred to, dimensions variable.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
William Anastasi. Six Sites. 1967. Six photo-silkscreens on canvas of wall
behind at Dwan Gallery, New York
http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/works/william_anastasi_installation.html
Mel Bochner. Measurement Room. 1969. Tape and Letraset, dimensions
variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
John Baldessari. Terms Most Useful in Describing Creative Works of Art.
1966-68. Acrylic on canvas, 113 ¾ x 96”. Museum of Contemporary
Art, San Diego, California
http://www.mcasd.org/collection/permcol/artists/baldessari.html
Bruce Nauman. From Hand to Mouth. 1967. Wax over cloth, 28 x 10
1/8 x 4”. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/collection_images/full/93.6-TIF.jpg
Jannis Kounellis. Horses. 1969. Installed at L’Attico Gallery, Rome.
http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/worldofart/english/foto/ny_e113.jpg
Mario Merz. Igloo de Giap. 1968. Metal, plastic bags, earth, neon tubes, 120 x
47¼”. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
http://www.artfacmetz.com/artfacmetzneufblogcom/images/2008/11/07/19_merz.jpg
Eva Hesse. Hang Up. 1966. Acrylic on cloth over wood, acrylic on cord over
steel tube, 72 x 84 x 78”. The Art Institute of Chicago.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/71396
Eva Hesse. Several. 1965. Acrylic, papier-mache, latex and rubber,
84 x 11 x 7”. The Estate of Eva Hesse, Hauser and Wirth Zurich
London
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/EvaHesse/gallery
Keith Sonnier. Lit Square. 1968. Neon light and glass, 60 x 60 x 24”.
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Jackie Winsor. Bound Square. 1972. Wood and twine, 75½” x 76” x 14 ½”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Alan Saret. Sun Register. 1967. Painted galvanized steel, 48 x 66 x 66”. Allen
Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/Saret_SunRegister.htm
Richard Tuttle. Red Canvas. 1967. Dyed canvas, 57 x 55”. Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.corcoran.org/collection/highlights_name_results.asp?Artist_ID=14
Robert Morris. Untitled. 1969. Felt, 72 x 144”. Norton Simon Museum,
Pasadena, California
http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/browse_artist.php?name=Morris%2C+Robert&resultnum=2
Richard Serra. One Ton Prop (House of Cards). 1969, refabricated 1986. Lead
antimony, 4 plates, each 48 48 x 1”. The Museum of Modern Art, New
York.
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81294
Richard Serra. Splashing. 1968. Lead installation, Castelli Warehouse, New
York and destroyed
http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/07spring/saletnik.htm
Barry Le Va. Continuous and Related Activity; Discontinued by the Act of
Dropping. 1967/90. Felt and glass, 26 x 20’. Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York
http://www.fallonandrosof.com/2005/01/why-you-should-see-barry-le-va-even-if.html
Lynda Benglis. Odalisque (Hey, Hey Frankenthaler). 1969. Poured
pigmented latex, 165 x 34 ½”. Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Alan Shields. Ajax. 1972-73. Acrylic, canvas, aluminum tubing, glass
beads and thread, 96 x 96 x 96”. Estate of the artist
http://www.larissagoldston.com/artists/alanshields/01.aspx
Al Loving. Self Portrait no. 23. 1973. Dyed cloth. Estate of the artist
Lenore Tawney. Hanging. 1965. Linen, silk and wood, slit tapestry weaving
with wrapped cut fringe; embellished with feathers; silk and linen knoted
fringes, 48 x 16”. The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/73117
Claire Zeisler. Freestanding Fiber Construction Entitled “Black Tuesday”.
1968. Jute and wool, square knotted with cascading ends and wood pile,
84 x 60”. The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/72921
Alan Sonfist. Time Landscape of New York City. 1965-present, West Houston
and LaGuardia Place, 45 x 400'. New York
http://www.alansonfist.com/NaturalCulturalLandscapes.html
Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. 1970. Mud, rocks, salt crystals,
1500 x 15’. Great Salt Lake, Utah.
Michael Heizer. Double Negative. 1969. 218,000 ton displacement of rhyolite
and sandstone, two trenches, overall 30 x 50 x 1500'. Overton, Nevada.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (gift of Virginia Dwan)
http://doublenegative.tarasen.net/double_negative.html
Robert Morris. Untitled (version 1 in 19 parts). 1968/2002. Felt, 103 x 85
44”. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/popups/pc_modern/enlarge17.html
Walter de Maria. The New York Earth Room. 1977. 250 cubic yards of
earth, 3600 square feet of floor space, 22” depth, 280,000 pounds.
Dia Art Foundation, New York
Hans Haacke. Bowery Seeds (Bowery Samen). 1970. New York City
http://www.greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention/bowery.html
Dennis Oppenheim. Cancelled Crop. 1969.
http://www.dennis-oppenheim.com/works/early-work/145
Nancy Holt. Sun Tunnels. 1973-76. Four drain pipes, each 9 x 18’.
Lucin, Utah
http://www.earthworks.org/tunnels.html
Mary Miss. Vs in a Field. 1969.
http://www.marymiss.com/index_.html
Alice Aycock. Maze. 1972. Wood, 32’ in diameter, 6’high. Gibney Farm
near New Kingston, Pennsylvania
http://www.artinfo.com/news/photos/1104/12070/
Michelle Stuart. Niagara II, Niagara Gorge. 1976. Red shale, gray shale on
muslin mounted on rag paper, 156 62”. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=2634&image_num=1
Michelle Stuart. Stone Alignments/Solstice Cairns. 1979. 3200 boulders
from Hood River, sited on Rowena Plateau, Columbia River Gorge,
Oregon, 1000 x 800'. Commissioned by the Portland Center for the Visual
Arts, Oregon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:STUART1979Solstice_Cairns.jpg
Christo and Jeanne Claude. Wrapped Coast. 1968-69. Erosion control
fabric covering one million square feet. Little Bay, Australia
http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/wc.shtml
Jan Dibbets. Perspective Correction – My Studio II, 3: Square with Cross on
Floor. 1969. Black and white photograph on photographic canvas, 43 3/8
x 43 3/8”. Barbara Gadstone Gallery, New York
http://www.gladstonegallery.com/dibbets.asp
Richard Estes. Nedicks. 1970. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60”. Thyssen-
Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen/ficha_obra/810
Janet Fish. August and the Red Glass. 1976. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60”.
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/collections/85_537.html
Audrey Flack. Jolie madame (Pretty Woman). 1973. Oil on canvas,
71 ½ x 96”. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
http://nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=111375&ViewID=2&GalID=ALL
Chuck Close. Big Self-Portrait. 1967-68. Acrylic on canvas, 107 1/2 x 83 1/2”.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=77&image_num=1
Philip Pearlstein. Two Female Models Reclining on a Cast-Iron Bed.
1968. Oil on canvas, 72 x 72”. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/collections/85_432.html
Sylvia Sleigh. The Turkish Bath. 1973. Oil on canvas, 76 x 100”. The David
and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
http://www.sylviasleigh.com/images/29turkishbath/29turkishbath.html
Alice Neel. Daniel Algis Alkaitis, Class of 1965. 1967. Oil on canvas,
50 x 34”. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire
http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/collections/overview/contemporary/paintings/P978155.html
Duane Hanson. Tourists. 1970. Polyester resin and fiberglass,
painted in oil and mixed media, Man 60 x 31 ½ x 12”, Woman
63 x 17 x 14 ½”. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Vito Acconci. Following Piece. 1969. Photograph. Collection of the artist
http://anormalboy.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/acconci-following1.jpg
John Perreault. Hair dress/Skirt/Veil/Apron (conceived for “The Fashion
Show Poetry Event”). 1969. Acrylic Hair. Collection of the artist
http://www.oxadox.com/article/healthfood/2009-02-13/76702.html
Nam June Paik. TV Bra for Living Sculpture. (Worn in concert by Charlotte
Moorman) 1969. Video tubes, televisions, rheostat, foot switches, plexi
boxes, vinyl straps, cab les, copper wire. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=874&image_num=1
Diane Arbus. A Young Family in Brooklyn going for a Sunday
Outing. Their baby is named Dawn. Their son is retarded. 1966.
Gelatin silver print, 14 15/16 x 14 15/16”. Harvard University Art
Museum/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/collection/detail.dot?objectid=286055
Garry Winogrand. Centennial Ball, Metropolitan Museum, New York
(Woman in white dress dancing). c. 1969. Gelatin silver print,
8 ¾ x 13”. The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/130009
Lee Friedlander. New York City. 1966. Gelatin silver print, 5 ¾ x
8 11/16”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Paul Thek. The Tomb -Death of a Hippie. 1967. Destroyed. (Peter Hujar
photograph, c. 1966, Walker Art Center Archives, Minneapolis)
http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=2537&title=Articles
Nancy Graves. Mongolian Bactrian (To Harvey Brennan). 1969. Wood, steel,
burlap, polyurethane, skin, wax, oil paint, 96 x 126 48”. State of
Nordhein-Westfalen, Germany
http://www.nancygravesfoundation.org/index.html
Chapter 5.
Vito Acconci. Seedbed. 1972. Ramp, 22 x 16 x 2'. Performed in Sonnabend
Gallery, New York
http://www.errantbodies.org/standard.html
Chris Burden. Through the Night Softly. 1973. Broken glass. Performed in
Los Angeles.
http://www.volny.cz/rhorvitz/burden.html
Gilbert and George. Singing Sculpture. 1971. Performed in Sonnabend
Gallery, New York
http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$tapedetail?GILBERTGEO
William Wegman. Milk/Floor. 1970. Gelatin-silver print, each
13 x 10 ½”. Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
http://fotomuseum.ch/index.php?id=302&L=1&artist_id=10156
Joseph Beuys. I Like America and America Likes Me. 1974. Rene Block
Gallery, New York
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/beuys/room4_lg2.shtm
Les Levine. Deep Gossip. 1979. Installation, State University of New York,
Plattsburgh and Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
http://www.feldmangallery.com/media/levine/levexh_80/deepcouch-01.jpg
Michael Snow. Wavelength. 1967. 45 min., b x w, 16 mm.
http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/wavelength/
Peter Campus. Three Transitions. 1973. Video (color,sound), 4.53
minutes. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.eai.org/eai/title.htm?id=3127
Mary Lucier. Dawn Burn. 1975/83. Seven channel video installation, video,
laser disc players, video tape, sculptre and plan, 98 x 45 x 54”. San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/194
Bill Viola. Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat). 1979. Video (color
and sound), 28 minutes. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=89506
Judy Chicago. Dinner Party. 1974-79. Mixed media: ceramic,
porcelain, textile, 48’ each side. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/home.php
Miriam Schapiro. Kimono. 1976. Collage and acrylic on canvas, 60 x
50”. Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia
http://www.artgallery.sbc.edu/schapiro.htm
Barbara Zucker. Pipe Without Ruffle. 1979, rusted steel and flocking,
45 ¼ x 27 x 2 ½”. Collection of the artist
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag97/zucker/sm-zuckr.shtml
Ann Sperry. Garden of Delights. 1980. Welded and painted steel, 104 x 7 ½'.
Commissioned by A.R.E.A. For Wards Island, New Yrk, now University of
Nebraska, Lincoln.
http://www.annsperry.com/gardenOfDelights.html
Harmony Hammond. Floorpiece VI. 1973. Cloth and acrylic, 65” diameter.
Brooklyn Museum, New York https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/harmonyhammond.php?i=832
Donna Byars. Dream Stones/The Gifts. 1979.
http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
Howardena Pindell. Untitled (#7). 1973. Pen and ink on punched
papers, talcum powder and thread on oak tag paper, 10 1/8 x 8 3/8”. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kazuko Miyamoto. String Construction around a Cylinder of my Height. 1975.
Painted wood, string, nails, c. 62”. Collection of the artist
http://www.shuandjoe.com/2009/05/kazuko-miyamoto-sol-lewitt/
Joan Semmel. Woman Under Sheet. 1974. Oil on canvas, 48 x 78”. National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
http://www.nmwa.org/clara/search_artist_detail.asp?artist_id=24440&search=basic
Joan Snyder. Small Symphony for Women. 1974. Mixed media on canvas,
24 ¼ x 72 3/4”. Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
http://wichitaartmuseum.org/acm/detail.php?action=v&id=1247756380678907
Judith Bernstein. A.I.R. Installation. 1973. Drawing installation. A.I.R.
Gallery, New York
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/archive/images/332.615.jpg
Lynda Benglis. Advertisement, November 1974, Artforum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benglis_-_Artforum.jpg
Adrian Piper. Catalysis IV, Frozen Speech. 1970
http://www.e-xplo.org/games/images/6_Piper_Catalysis_IV.gif
Martha Wilson. Male Impersonator (Butch). 1973-74. Color photo (by Richard
Jardens) with text.
http://artgallery.dal.ca/exhibitions/past2009.html
Mary Beth Edelson. Death of the Patriarchy. 1976. Photo-Collage, 30 x 40”
http://fathersforlife.org/images/death_of_the_patriarchy_l.jpg
Carolee Schneemann. Interior Scroll. 1975. Performed in East Hampton,
New York
http://www.caroleeschneemann.com/interiorscroll.htm
Hannah Wilke. S.O.S. Starification Object Series (guns). 1974, Photo-
graph, Gelatin silver print, image and mount 40 x 27”. Los Angeles
County Museum of Contemporary Art, California
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record&id=151532&type=101
Joan Jonas. Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy. 1972. Video/black and white
with sound, 23 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Eleanor Antin. The Adventures of a Nurse. 1976. Video (sound and
color), 65 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ana Mendieta. Silueta. 1976-78. Color photograph of earth/body
work, carved earth, Old Man’s Creek, Iowa City, Iowa, from the series
Silueta in Iowa and Oaxaca, Mexico, 20 x 13 ¼”.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Nancy Spero. Torture of Women. 1976. Handprinting and typewriter collage
on paper, 14 panels totalling 1 2/3 x 125'. National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa, Ontario
May Stevens. Rosa Luxemburg. 1977. Xerography and photo-collage
with text, 28 3/8 x 24”. New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe
http://www.museumofnewmexico.org/mfa/ideaphotographic/cgi-bin/display.php?img=stevens.jpg
Ida Abplebroog. The Sweet Smell of Sage Enters the Room. 1979. Ink on
vellum coated with Rhoplex, 11 ½ x 9”. Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/5170/Sweet_Smell_of_Sage_Enters_the_Room
Mary Frank. Untitled. 1967. Clay, 6 ½ x 10 3/8 x 10 1/8”. Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=7163
May Wilson. Untitled (Ridiculous Portrait), 1966-69. Collage
http://www.warholstars.org/andywarhol/articles/maywilson/maywilson.html
Ree Morton. Of Previous Dissipations. 1974. Oil on wood with celastic,
41” x 6’7/8” x 6 ½”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cynthia Carlson. Homage to the Academy Building. 1979. Latex,
acrylic, spray enamel, charcoal, masonite, 17’ x 39’5” x 25’7”.
Installation at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia
http://www.inliquid.com/commentary/stein/tributeMG.php
Joyce Kozloff. Hidden Chambers. 1975-76. Acrylic on canvas, 72 ½ x 120”.
Collection Francoise and Harvey Rambach
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/spivy/spivy1-9-08_detail.asp?picnum=8
Valerie Jaudon. Jackson. 1976. Metallic pigment in polymer emulsion
and pencil on canvas, 72 1/8 x 72 1/8”. Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=8522
Robert Kushner. Biarritz from The Persian Line: Part II, 1975. Acrylic
on cotton, synthetic brocade and fringe, 74 x 86 3/16”. Collection of
the artist
Jane Kaufman. 4 Panel Screen. 1984. Coquille Feathers and glass beads, 79 x 31”. Collection of the artist
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt. Panis Angelicus. 1970-87. Mixed-media
installation with monstrance, candle-sticks and altar cloth, 7 x 6 x 3
½’. Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Kim MacConnel. Red Lantern. 1975. Acrylic on sewn cotton (bed sheets), 80
¼ x 105 1/2”. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
http://popartmachine.com/item/pop_art/MCAS-MCAS.002CS036/KIM-MACCONNEL-RED-LANTERN-1975
Tina Girouard. Food restaurant and Statues-Documenta, 1977. 1979. Color
photoraph, 18 ¾ x 29 1/12”
http://www.artinfo.com/news/enlarged_image/24688/15488/
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=E02441402B50D8C6F1DDA1062D2C0E63
Patsy Norvell. Glass Garden. 1979-80. Sandblasted glass, wooden frame, paint, 7 1/2 x 8 ½ x 7'10”. Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/archive/images/584.1729.jpg
Judy Pfaff. Deepwater. 1980. Site specific installation, Holly Solomon
Gallery, New York.
http://www.judypfaff.org/gallery/album60/1_G
Donna Dennis. Station Hotel. 1973-74. Acrylic and enamel, graphite on wood
metal, fluorescent and incandescent lights and acrylic, 75 x 72 x 13 1/2”.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://www.donnadennisart.com/17.htm
Philip Guston. The Street. 1977. Oil on canvas, 69 x 110 3/4”. Metropoltan
Museum of Art, New York
Hans Haacke. Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings—A Real
Time Social System As of May 1, 1971. 1971. Photographs, data sheets,
charts, dimensions variable
http://slavin.tumblr.com/post/125874495/hans-haacke-shapolsky-et-al-manhattan-real
Gordon Matta-Clark. Splitting. 1974. Gelatin silver print, 16 x 20”. San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/107491
Scott Burton. Bronze Chair. 1979. Bronze, 44 1/8 x 21 ½ x 22 ½”.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/Burton_Chair.htm
Joel Shapiro. Untitled (House). 1975. Cast iron, 7 ½ x 10 ¼ x 8 ½”. The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
http://moca-la.org/museum/pc_artwork_detail.php?acsnum=85.86&keywords=Joel%20Shapiro&x=0&y=0&
Bryan Hunt. Shift Falls. 1978. Bronze with black patina, 117 x 13 3/8 x
8”. The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
http://water.pulitzerarts.org/artist-statements/hunt/
Brice Marden. Grove IV. 1976. Oil and wax on canvas, 72 x 108”. Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Elizabeth Murray. Children Meeting. 1978. Oil on canvas, 101 3/16 x 127”.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
http://home.att.net/~artarchives/whitney/americancent2.html
Jennifer Bartlett. Rhapsody. 1975-76. 987 steel plates, 12 x 12” each, overall
approximately 7'6” x 153'. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/kuspit/kuspit11-10-06_detail.asp?picnum=7
Susan Rothenberg. Red Banner. 1979. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 123
7/8”. The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas
http://www.mfah.org/collection.asp?par1=11&par2=&par3=40&par6=3&par4=211&lgc=4¤tPage=3
Neil Jenney. Swimmer and Reflection. 1970. Oil on canvas, 73 ½ x
52 1/2”. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/collections/85_409.html
H. C. Westerman. The Jazz Singer. c. 1953. Oil on canvas with artist-
painted frame, 42 x 32”. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
http://www.tcmhi.org/exhibits/hcwestermann/JazzSinger72.jpg
Gladys Nilsson. Pink Suit #2. 1966. Watercolor over graphite on off-white
wove paper, 16 x 10”. The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/155468
Jim Nutt. Toot and Toe. 1969. Acrylic on Plexiglas, reverse painting,
60 x 39”. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
http://www.mmoca.org/mmocacollects/show_full_image.php?id=4
Roger Brown. Autobiography in the Shape of Alabama (Mammy’s Door).
1974. Oil on canvas with mirror, wood, Plexiglas, photographs
post cards and cloth shirt, 89 ¾ x 48 ¾ x 18”. Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago.
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/work_detail.php?id=17&artname=&page=
Ed Paschke. Fifi. 1973. Oil on canvas, 50 1/8 x 60 ¼”. Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/collection_object.asp?key=32&subkey=2753
Robert Lostutter. Map to the morning dance. 1972. Oil on canvas, 53 x 36”
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=E539C113F30D2723F3F477AADFC183DE
Hollis Sigler. There’s More – All Good Reasons to See What’s in Store
For You. 1980. Oil on canvas in artist’s frame, 43 ¼ x 61 ¼”.
The David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago
http://www1.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/efts/smart/display.image.pl?accession=1983.40
Chapter 6.
Julian Schnabel. Owl. 1980. Oil, plates and auto-body filler on wood,
96 x 84 x 12”. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
http://moca-la.org/museum/pc_artwork_detail.php?acsnum=85.83&keywords=Julian%20Schnabel&x=0&y=0&
Julian Schnabel. Exile. 1980. Oil, antlers, gold leaf and mixed media on
wood. 90 x 120”.
http://www.brunobischofberger.com/newacqIII.htm
David Salle. Sextant in Dogtown. 1987. Oil and synthetic polymer
on canvas. 96 3/16 x 126 ¼”. Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
http://www.whitney.org/www/american_voices/270/index.html
Eric Fischl. Bad Boy. 1981. Oil on canvas, 66 x 90”. Private collection, Zurich
Switzerland
http://www.ericfischl.com/paintings/early_paintings_1/html/81_023.html
Georg Baselitz. Adieu. 1982. Oil on canvas, 98 3/8 x 118 3/16”. Tate
Gallery, London
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=754&searchid=10361&tabview=image
Anselm Kiefer. Das Buch (The Book). 1979-85. Oil, lead, photographic paper,
straw and fabric on canvas, 130 x 217 5/8” Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/collection_images/full/85.27.jpg
Francesco Clemente. Self-Portrait. 1984. Color woodcut, 14 x 20”. State
Museums of Berlin
http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/kk/vg/s3.html
Allan McCollum. 40 Plaster Surrogates. 1982-90. Enamel on hydrocal, overall
85 ¾ x 147 1/4”. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,
D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/collection_images/full/90.22.jpg
Peter Halley. Two Cells with Conduit. 1987. Day-Glo, acrylic and
Roll-a-Tex on canvas, 2 panels, overall 78 x 154 3/4” overall. Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Haim Steinbach. Ultra red #2. 1986. Wood, plastic laminates, four
Lava lamps, nine enamel pots and six digital clocks, 67 x 76 x 19”.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Robert Gober. Three Parts of an X. 1985. Plaster, wood, wire lath, steel and
semi-gloss enamel paint, 81 7/8 x 82 5/16 x 26”. Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/collection_images/full/93.16.jpg
Mike Bidlo. 'Not Pollock (Study for No. 1, 1950). 1983. Oil and enamel on
canvas, 36 x 60 1/4”
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5143507
Sherrie Levine. After Walker Evans. 1981. Gelatin silver print, 7 2/3 x 9
2/3”. Museum Ludwig, Cologne
http://translate.google.com/translate?langpair=de|
Cindy Sherman. Untitled #96. 1981. Chromogenic color print, 23 15/16 x 47
15//16”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Christy Rupp. Social Progress. 1986. Steel and design cast, 7 x 18 x
25’. Collection of the artist
http://www.christyrupp.com/env_sculpt.html
Dondi (Donald J. White). Subway cars, early to mid eighties
http://www.graffiti.org/dondi/subway.html
Crash (John Matos). Exterior of Fashion Moda, 1982.
http://www.lehman.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/gallery/talkback/fashionmoda.html
Keith Haring. Crack is Wack. 1986. Handball court, West 128th Street
& 2nd Avenue, New York City
http://keithharing.net/cgi-bin/art_lrg.cgi?date=1986&genre=Public%20Projects&id=00108
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Flexible. 1984. Acrylic and oil on wood, c. 100 x 50”.
Estate of the artist
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/basquiat/flexible.php
David Wojnarowicz. Untitled from Sex Series (For Marion Scemama). 1988-89.
from a series of eight gelatin silver prints, 31 x 34 1/4”.
http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/9902/wojnarowicz/wojnarowicz2.html
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres. Life on Dawson Street. 1982. Dawson
Street and Longwood Avenue, New York I
http://www.terminartors.com/ahearn-john/life-on-dawson-street-with-6354-p
Tim Rollins & KOS. Amerika I. 1984-85. Oil, paint stick, acrylic, china
marker and pencil on book pages on rag paper mounted on canvas,
71 ½ x 177.” Collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs/rollins/amerika/
Justen Ladda. The Thing. 1981. Pigmented shellac on seats, latex and
tempera paint on seat backs and wall. P.S. 37, The Bronx, New York
http://www.justenladda.com/pages/pages%20installations/TheThing1.html
Jimmie Durham. Self-Portrait. 1986. Mixed media, 78 x 32 x 5”. Collection
of the artist
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/post_colonial/example/aboriginal.htm
James Luna. The Artifact Piece. 1987. Performance piece. The Museum of
Man, San Diego, California
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Luna.html
John Coplans. Self-Portrait Three Times. 1987. Polaroid/gelatin silver print,
3 ½ x 4 1/2”. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=112256&handle=li
Tehching Hseih. Cage Piece. 1978-79. One of One Year Performances, 1978-
86.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/322
Tseng Kwong Chi. Disneyland, California. 1979. Silver gelatin print,
36 x 36”.
http://www.lunacommons.org/luna/servlet/view/all/who/Tseng,+Kwong+Chi/what/Silver+print/
Margo Machida. Self Portrait as Yukio Mushima. 1986. Acrylic on canvas
http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women2/images/machida_big.jpg
Whitfield Lovell. Grandma's Dress. 1990. Oil stick and charcoal on paper,
67 x 50”
Kathleen McCarthy. Five Points of Observation. Wire mesh sculpture in
platform windscreens, 111th Street - 104th Street, Cypress Hills, New York
http://www.mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=J&artist=1&station=2
Clarissa Sligh. What's Happening with Momma? 1988. Accordian book
silkscreen with acrylic ink on Coventr paper, 27 ¾ x 15 1/6 x 3 2/3”.
Produced at Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
http://www.centerforbookarts.org/exhibits/USA/sligh.html
Vincent Smith. Ko-Ko. Monotype oil on paper, 22 x 30”. N'Namdi Gallery,
New York
http://www.grnnamdi.com/dynamic/artwork_display.asp?ArtworkID=856
Camille Billops. Finding Christa. 1991. Film, 55 min.
http://www.bombsite.com/issues/40/articles/1558
Tomei Arai. Laundryman’s Daughter. 1988. Color silkscreen, 29 x 20”.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Luis Jimenez. Border Crossing. 1989. Fiberglass with urethane finish, 127 x 34 x 54”. Iowa State University, Ames
http://www.museums.iastate.edu/AOCFactSheetsPDF/New%20Fact%20Sheet%2009/Border%20Crossing.pdf
Rolando Briseno. The Annunciation. 1989. Acrylic and oil on wood, 96 x 116”.
Collection of the artist
http://www.rolandobriseno.net/paintandsculpt.html
Judy Baca. Great Wall of Los Angeles. 1974-2003. Acrylic on cast concrete, 13 x 2400'. Los Angeles, California
Pepon Osorio. The Bicycle. 1985. Mixed media, 42 x 60 x 24”.
http://auca150art.com/PeponOsorio.aspx
Martin Wong. Stripped Trans Am at Avenue C and 5th Street. 1984. Acrylic on
canvas, 48 x 92” Estate of the artist, PPOW Gallery, New York
http://www.ppowgallery.com/selected_work.php?artist=25&image=2
Michael Kelly Williams. Afternoon of a Georgia Faun. 1985. Woodcut print
Beverly Buchanan. Ferry Road Shacks and North Georgia Shacks. 1988.
Oil pastel on paper, two painted foamcore shacks, Ferry Road 38 ½ x 50”,
North Georgia, 17 ¾ x 18 ½ x 15 3/4”
Noah Jemisin. Shrine to Self-Pity. 1982. Gesso and encaustic on canvas with
wood frame and candles, 47 ½ x 30 1/2”. Collection of the artist
http://www.nyfa.org/nyfa_artists_work.asp?pid=500&num=1
Peter Gourfain. Roundabout. 1976-81. Yellow pine and terracotta, 108'
height x 264' diameter. (contact artist)
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/1021/
Eva Cockcroft and Artmakers. La Lucha Continua/The Struggle Continue.
1985. Oil and tar on concarete, 30 x 40'. East 8th Street, Avenue C and
East 9th Street, New York
http://www.artmakersnyc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=84 New York
Kay Miller. The Journey. Oil, wood and rhinestones, 48 x x 2” Collection of
the artist
https://artistsregister.com/artist_image.phtml?slideId=12855&backlink=artists&number=CO788
Emma Amos. Sand Tan. c. 1980. Etching and Aquatint. The Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/blackburn/images/bla53a-02408r.jpg
Harry Fonseca. Shuffle Off to Buffalo. 1987. Mixed media on canvas.
http://www.britesites.com/native_artist_interviews/hf8.htm
David Hammons. Higher Goals. Installation, 1982, 1986 and 1990. Basketball
hoops, bottle caps and mixed media, 40' height.
Lorna Simpson. Untitled (2 Necklines). 1989. Two gelatin silver
prints and eleven engraved plastic plaques, photos 36” each, overall 40 x
100”. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.thecityreview.com/lsimpson.html
Carrie Mae Weems. Mirror, Mirror. 1987. Gelatin silver print,
17 ½ x 15 1/3”. Fotomuseum Wintertur, Switzerland
http://fotomuseum.ch/index.php?id=302&L=1&artist_id=10153
Coreen Simpson. Brother from Another Plantation. 1984.
Hand-painted color C print, 40 x 60”.
Judith Shea. Between Thought and Feeling. 1988. Bronze and cast stone, 62
½ x 34 ¼ 42 1/2”. Neuman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson
County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
http://gallery.jccc.net/collection/sculpture/?id=158
Magdalena Abakanowicz. Backs. 1976-80. Burlap and resin, lifesize 24-27 x
20-22 x 22-26”. Museum of Modern Art, Pusan, South Korea
http://www.abakanowicz.art.pl/backs/BacksinCanada.php
Ronald Gonzalez. Tunnels. 1997. Mixed media, 7 x 20 x 20'. Installed
State University of New York, Purchase
http://64.124.30.150/html/Detail.asp?WorkInvNum=2135&whatpage=artist
Daisy Youngblood. Lower Nile Cow. 1979. Low fire clay, 12 x 11 x 2”. Private
collection
http://mckeegallery.com/nggallery/page-626/page/488/
Michael Lucero. Pond Dreamer. 1985. Glazed earthenware, 31 ½ x 29
½ x 21 3/4” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=35763
Richard Hambleton. Shadow Man. 1982. East Village, New York. Photographs
by Hank O'Neal
http://www.hankonealphoto.com/shadowman.html
Robert Longo. Untitled (Men in the City Series: Eric). 1981.
Charcoal and graphite, 96 x 60”. The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles
http://moca-la.org/museum/pc_artwork_detail.php?acsnum=91.21&keywords=Robert%20Longo&x=0&y=0&
Jonathan Borofsky. Hammering Man. 1983. Painted wood and electric motor,
216” height. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=image;hex=M83_167.jpg
Jonathan Borofsky. The Ballerina Clown. 2008 (small version installed Paula
Cooper Gallery, New York in 1983). Aluminum, steel, painted fiberglass
and electric motor (operating kicking leg) 30'. Venice, California
http://www.borofsky.com/index.php?album=ballerinaclown
Ellen Phelan. Applause. 1985. Gouache on paper, 22 ½ x 191/2”
http://www.umass.edu/fac/calendar/universitygallery/events/EllenPhelan.html
Sandy Skoglund Revenge of the Goldfish. 1981. Ceramic fish,
furniture and live models, c. 27 ½ x 35”. Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Massachusetts
http://www.iit.edu/~villjac/revence%20of%20goldfish.jpg
Max Coyer. Sacred Monster. 1985. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60”. Estate of the
artist
http://maxcoyer.com/allslides/Opium/SacredMonster.jpg
Bill Jensen. Guy in the Dune. 1979. Oil on linen, 36 x 24”. Cheim and Read
Gallery, New York
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/02/art/bill-jensen
Louise Fishman. Elegy for Tony K. 1989. Oil on linen, 50 x 65”.
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=C025915411475111
Tom Nozkowski. Untitled. 1983. Oil on canvas, 16 x 20”. Collection of Bill
Katz, New York
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/03/artseen/thomas-nozkowski-paintings
Jake Berthot. Untitled. 1981. Oil on linen, 32 x 24”
http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Images.The-Meditative-Surface.128.3048.html
Terry Winters. Double Gravity. 1984. Oil on linen, 80 x 104”. The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Carole Seborovski. Cross Shape – Valley. 1986. Graphite on paper, 19 5/8 x
25 5/8”.
http://www.seborovski.com/early_drawings_thumbs.html
Sean Scully. Catherine. 1982. Oil on canvas, 114 x 97 3/4”. Modern Art
Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
http://themodern.org/f_html/scully.html
Helen Oji. A. 1980. Acrylic, Rhoplex, glitter on paper, 60 x 72”. Collection
Home Insurance Company, New York
http://wwwf.countryday.net/FacStf/us/hausmanl/Scholastic%20Art%20Magazine/VanGogh%20-%20line.pdf
Anna Kuo. Michael's Light. 1983. Oil on linen, 50 x 40”.
http://artasiamerica.org/works/5193/191
Rebecca Purdum. Hold On. 1984. Oil on canvas, 60 x 84”. http://www.adambaumgoldgallery.com/
Emmi Whitehorse. Kin nah' zin', 1984. Mixed media on paper, 27 ½ x
39 ½”.
http://weeklywire.com/ww/12-01-97/tw_review1.html
Paloma Cernuda. In My Father's Room. 1984-85. Charcoal on paper, 60 x 42”.
http://auction.igavel.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&dir=p&Auction_uid1=574310#Image1
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Tree of Life. 1987. Oil on canvas, 66 x 48”.
Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
http://www.jerseycitymuseum.org/imgdtl.cfm?imageid=218&cid=31
Kay WalkingStick. The Abyss. 1989. Acrylic and wax, oil on canvas, oil on canvas, 36 x 72 x 3 1/2”. Collection of the artist
http://www.kaywalkingstick.com/art/canvas_3_new.htm#
Fred Sandback. Untitled (Sculptural Study Three-part Corner Construction)
1981. Acrylic yarn, 121 x 58”. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=154810;type=101
Richard Nonas. Razor-Blade. 1977. Steel, 6 x 96 x 102”. Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/707
William Tucker. Building a Wall in the Air. 1978. Mild steel, 119 x 87 x 15”.
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/object.aspx?ObjectID=246
Mia Westerlund-Roosen. Maquette for Rumors. 1991. Ceramic, encaustic,
4 ½ x 4 5/8 x 3 1/2”. (Model for larger concrete and steel sculpture at
Storm King Sculpture Center, New York)
http://www.hawaii.edu/artgallery/8th_shoebox/artists/pages/Roosen.html
Beverly Pepper. Silent Presence. 1982. Cast brass, bronze, 108” height, 7”
diameter. De cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
http://www.decordova.org/decordova/sculp_park/pepper.html
Kit Yin Snyder Sicily Remembered. 1985. Wire mesh. Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.kityinsnyder.com/id8.html
John Duff. Green Curved Wedge. 1983. Fiberglass, 74 1/6 x 11 ½ x 14 1/2”
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=03B08D8BADD63592
Sidney Buchanan. Several early sculptures & Step Ladder with Chair. 2009.
Chairs, ladders, paint. Collection of the artist
http://www.netnebraska.org/extras/statewide/pers/Buchanan.html
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper968/stills/k2v5483j.jpg
Donald Lipski. The West. 1987. Painted steel, corroded copper pennies and
silicone adhesive, each sphere, 60 “ diameter, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
http://landmarks.utexas.edu/artistdetail/lipski_donald
Christopher Wilmarth. Moment. 1984-86. Bronze, steel, glass, 94 x 36 x 71”.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
http://www.kemperart.org/permanent/works/Wilmarth.asp#
Petah Coyne. “Above and Beneath the Skin,” Installation view, 19 year
retrospective showing pieces from the 1980s. 2005. Sculpture Center,
New York
http://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitionsExhibition.htm?id=10108
Maren Hassinger. Interlock. 1984. Braided steel, 91 x 34”. California African
American Museum, Los Angeles
Martin Puryear. Vault. 1984. Wood, wire mesh and Tar, 66
x 97 x 48”. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
http://www.mcasd.org/collection/permcol/artists/puryear.html
Betye Saar. House of Ancient Memory. 1989. Wood, plastic, mirrors,
embroidered fabric, feathers, metal, glass perfume bottles, painted and
lacquered wood table. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=6591&image_num=1
Alison Saar. Untitled figure from the installation Crossroads. 1989. Wood and
mixed media, 72 x 18 x 16”. Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/collections/92_233.html
Agnes Denes. Wheatfield. 1982
http://chelseaartmuseum.org/exhibits/2004/agnesdenes/gallery/index.html
Dennis Adams with Nicholas Goldsmith, architect. Podium for Dissent. 1985.
Installation Battery Park landfill, New York
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/1985/Art_beach7/ArtBeach85PopUp3.html
Arthur Weyhe. Untitled. 1980. Spruce poles, 20 x 25 x 20'.
http://artistswoods.com/images/SS81WeyheUntitled1980.jpg
Richard Serra. Tilted Arc. 1981. Steel, 12 x 120'. Installed Federal Plaza, New York
(destroyed)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/tiltedarc_a.html
Krystof Wodiczko. Public Projection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden. 1988.
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/index.html#
John Outterbridge. Deja Vu-do, Ethnic Heritage Group. c.1979-92. Mixed
media, 67 x 13 ½ x 9”. Collection of the artist.
http://www.netropolitan.org/outterbridge/79-92_deja_vu_do.html
Noah Purifoy. Joshua Tree Environment, begun 1989. Mixed Media. Various works. Joshua Tree, California
http://www.noahpurifoy.com/foundation/joshuatreeenvironment.html
Mel Edwards. Resolved. 1986. Welded steel. The Newark Museum, New
Jersey.
http://www.newarkmuseum.org/museum_default_page.aspx?id=1562
Alfredo Jaar. Gold in the Morning. 1985-87. Installation including C-print
photo, 30 x 20”; lightbox with color transparency 12 x 18 x 5” ; metal
boxes, gilded frames, nails, overall dimensions variable
http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/?slide=1514&artindex=179
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425946560/424021068/alfredo-jaar-gold-in-the-morning-series.html
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425599320/179379/gold-in-the-morning.html
Antonio Muntadas. Media Hostages. 1985. Video (color and sound), 6:24 min.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Luis Camnitzer. Urugayan Torture. 1983/84. 35 photo etchings, each 27 ½
x 19 1/2”. Collection of the artist
http://www.universes-in-universe.de/car/documenta/11/bhf/e-camnitzer.htm
Leon Golub. Interrogation II. 1981. Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 168”. The Art
Institute of Chicago, Illinois
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/100250
Pat Ward Williams. Accused/Blowtorch/Padlocked. 1987. Magazine page,
silver print, film positive, window frame, paint and text
http://www.umich.edu/~ws483/pat_works.htm
Adrian Piper. Vanilla Nightmare #2. 1986. Charcoal and red crayon with
erasing on tan wove paper (newsprint), 23 ½ x27 1/2”. The Art Institute
of Chicago, Illinois
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/119340
Guerrilla Girls. “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”
1989, bus poster (lease eventually canceled), New York
http://www.guerrillagirls.com/posters/getnaked.shtml
Edgar Heap of Birds. Reclaim New York. 1988. Aluminum sign, 61 ½ x 36”.
Installed City Hall Park, New York
http://www.heapofbirds.com/hachivi_edgar_heap_of_birds.htm
Jenny Holzer. Truisms. 1983. Electronic sign, 6 5/16 x 60 ½ x 4 1/4”.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/work_detail.php?id=53&artname=&page=colmain
Barbara Kruger. Untitled (You Invest in the Divinity of the Masterpiece).
1982. Photostat, 71 ¾ x 45 5/8”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Barbara Bloom. The Reign of Narcissism. 1988. Mixed media installation,
hexagonal room, 144 x 240 x 240”. The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles
http://moca-la.org/museum/pc_artwork_detail.php?acsnum=89.41&keywords=Barbara%20Bloom&x=0&y=0&
Faith Ringgold. Tar Beach (Part I from the Woman on a Bridge series). 1988.
Acrylic on canvas bordered with printed, painted, quilted, pieced cloth,
74 5/8 x 68 1/2”. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Komar and Melamid. I Saw Stalin Once When I Was a Child. 1981-82. Oil on
canvas, 72 1/8” x 54 1/4”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Andres Serrano. Piss Christ. 1987. Cibachrome, silicone, plexiglass, wood
frame, 60 x 40”.
Robert Mapplethorpe. Thomas. 1987. Gelatin silver print, 20 x 24”. Addison
Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
http://accessaddison.andover.edu/Obj13642?sid=8584&x=714007
Chapter 7.
Damien Hirst. The Physical Impossibility of Death in Mind of Someone Living.
1991. Shark, glass, steel, 5% formaldehyde solution, 84 x 252 x 84”. The
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Collection
http://www.whitecube.com/artists/hirst/vitrineworksl/
Jeff Koons. Puppy. 1992. Stainless steel, wood (Arolsen only), soil, geotextile
fabric, internal irrigation system, live flowering plants, 486 x 486 256”.
Installations at Arolsen 1992, Sydney 1995-96, Bil boa 1997 (permanent),
New York 2000, Private collection (permanent) 1992
http://www.jeffkoons.com/site/index.html
Matthew Barney. Cremaster 5. 1997. Silkscreened laser disc, polyester,
acrylic, velvet and sterling silver in acrylic vitrine with color 35 mm film
transferred from video with sound, 54 ½ min.
Robert Gober. Untitled. 1991. Wood, beeswax, leather, fabric and human
hair, 13 1/4 x 16 1/2 x 46 1/8”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kiki Smith. Tale. 1992. Beeswax, microcrystaline wax, pigment and papier
mache, 23 x 160 x 23”. Collection of Jeffrey Deitch
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/fa/images/medium/kc_femart_smith_k_1.jpg
Sally Mann. Popsicle Drips (from the Immediate Family series). 1985. Gelatin
silver print, 22 7/8 x 18 9/16”. The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/184386
Nancy Brett. Our Little Secret. 1998. Oil on canvas, 30 x 30”. Collection of
the artist
http://www.nancybrett.com/aloadedbrush3.html
Catherine Opie. Self-portrait/Pervert. 1994. Chromogenic print, 40 x 30”.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Chakaia Booker. Blue Bell. 1998. Rubber tires, steel, wood frame, cl 10 x 12'.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
http://www.oberlin.edu/amam/Booker_BlueBell.htm
Glenn Ligon. White #19. 1994. Oilstick, gesso and synthetic polymer paint on
canvas mounted on wood, 84 x 60”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
William Kentridge. History of the Main Complaint. 1996. Video with sound,
00:05:50, ed. 7/10. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (See
also Mine on YouTube)
Willie Cole. Stowage. 1997. Woodcut, 49 9/16 x 95 1/16”. The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Maura Sheehan. Ocean Floor. 1996. Windshield and auto glass, rubber
matting, dimensions variable.
http://www.maurasheehan.net/installations/installation1.html
Paul Wong. Burning History. 1997. Handmade paper, Xerox transfer and
paper-covered objects, 20 x 50 x 25'. Installation at the Neuberger
Museum, State University of New York at Purchase
http://artasiamerica.org/works/270/23
Barbara Broughel. Opium Works. 1994-98. Mixed media, dimensions variable.
http://www.heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.1.SCULPT.BROUGHEL.htm
Arthur Simms. Hemper or if I were a Bird. 1991. Rope, wood glue, paint,
ladder, objects, 96 x 48 x 27”
http://www.kbfa.com/asimms.htm#
Keith Morrison. Choc-mool. 1999. Watercolor, 30 x 40”. Collection of the
artist (?)
http://www.keithmorrison.com/images/chocmool.html
Albert Chong. Winged Desire. 1995. Gelatin silver print. Collection of the
artist
http://albertchong.com/index.php?option=com_samgallery&task=img&cat=8
Shelley Niro. Mohawks in Beehives” 1991. Hand-tinted black and white
photograph. Collection of the artist.
http://www.britesites.com/native_artist_interviews/sn27.htm
Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Untitled (Portrait of Ross). 1991. Multicolored candies
individually wrapped in cellophane, ideal weight 175#, installation
dimensions variable, c. 92 x 92 x 92”. Art Institute of Chicago.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/152961
Nancy Rubins. 5,500 lbs. Of Sonny's Airplane Parts, Linda's Place 550 lbs. of
Tie-wire. 1997. Aiarplane parts, tie wire, 20 x 19 x 27'. Installation
ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
http://www.artpace.org/aboutTheExhibition.php?axid=28&sort=artist
Cady Noland. Chainsaw Cut Cowboy Head. 1990. Silkscreen on aluminum with
rope, roll of tape and cigarette box, 60 x 60 x 19 1/4”. Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/work_detail.php?id=100&artname=&page=colmain
Mel Chin. Revival Field. 1990-present. Color Xerox on paper, mounted on foamcore,
10 ¾ x 22 x 1/4”. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/7577
http://www.satorimedia.com/fmraWeb/chin.htm
Zoe Leonard. Tree. 1997. Wood, steel and steel cables, 246 x 58 ¼ x 18”
(installation Paula Cooper Gallery, New York). Galerie Gisela Capitain,
Cologne, Germany
http://www.newmuseum.org/afternature/leonard.html
Shirin Neshat. Rapture. 1999. Two-channel, black-and-white video, sound
(projection), 13 min. loop, ed. 1/5. The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/184206
Ann Messner. Amniotic Sea. 1999. Newspaper vending machine with
broadsides, installed at Foley Square, New York. Collection of the artist
http://www.barbarawestermann.com/livingroom/WATER/annmesner.html
Vanessa Beecroft. VB35. 1998. C print from performance/installation of 20
models in rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for 3 hours, 40 x
59”. Fotomuseum Wintherthur, Zurich, Switzerland
http://fotomuseum.ch/index.php?id=302&L=1&artist_id=658
Fred Wilson. Guarded View. 1991. Four mannequins with museum guard
uniforms, mannequins, 75 x 48 x 166”. Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/fred_wilson
Jessica Stockholder. Your Skin in this Weather Bourne Eye-Threads and
Swollen Perfumes. 1995. Plastic stacking crates, stuffed shirts, pillows,
papier-mache, yarn, carpet, concrete, lamps, yellow electric cords,
swimming pool liner, steel, paint and miscellaneous building materials,
dimensions variable. DIA Center, New York
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs/stockholder/progress/
Jason Rhoades. From Swedish Erotica and Fiero Parts. 1994. Ikea
photography board with vinyl frame, resurfaced washer and dryer,
horizontal styrofoam model shelf (Judd), two contractor's doors for short-
wide use with wet toilet paper doorknobs (formed by artist), ceramic kiln/
stereo, various bisqued and glazed ceramics, fencing foils, bicycle seats,
aluminum foil grille, Malibu work light, yellow bug light; dimensions
variable. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
http://moca-la.org/museum/artwork_detail.php?isPermSearch=1&id=167&sname=Jason+Rhoades&sletter=6
Gary Hill. Tall Ships. 1992. 12-channel video installation (12 modified black
and white monitors with projection lenses, 12 laserdisc players and
laserdiscs, one IBM-compatible compuer with 16 RS-232 control ports and
variable length, concealed switching runners and controlling software),
dimensions variable. Collection Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
http://www.acmi.net.au/deepspace/ar_gh2.php
Tony Oursler. Glimmer. 1999. 5 fiberglass spheres, CPJ, 200 Projector,
videotape, VCR, eac sphere 18” in diameter. The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
http://moca-la.org/museum/pc_artwork_detail.php?acsnum=2000.66&keywords=Tony%20Oursler&x=0&y=0&
Doug Aitken. These Restless Minds. 1998. 3-channel video installation,
dimensions variable
http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/features/saltz/saltz1-8-7.asp
Polly Apfelbaum. The Dwarves without Snow White. 1992. 8 boxes
and lids, stretched crushed velvet, dye. Each 27 x 15 ½ x 3 1/2”, overall
131”. Brooklyn Museum, New York
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/148253/The_Dwarves_w/o_Snow_White
Arturo Herrera. Three Hundred Nights. 1998. Wall painting, dimensions
variable.
http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/23
Gary Simmons. boom. 1996/2003. White pigment and pastel on
blackboard-paint primed panel, 125 1/8 x 208 7/8”. The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Ellen Gallagher. Skinatural. 1997. Oil, pencil and plasticine on
magazine page, 13 ¼ x 10”. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Raymond Pettibon. Exhibition at The Renaissance Society at The University
of Chicago, 1998.
http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Images.Raymond-Pettibon.43.html
Paul McCarthy. Bossy Burger. 1991. Still from video, 50 minutes in length.
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands & video from YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JfGtdbeuZc
Mike Kelley. Untitled. 1990. Found afghans and stuffed dolls, 6” x 245 x 52”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Lari Pittman. Untitled #52. 1991. Acrylic and enamel on paper, 30 x 22 1/4”.
Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/pittman_36.html
James Lee Byars. The Eros. 1993. Karvala marble, 7 ¾ x 33 ½ x 33 1/2”.
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
http://translate.google.com/translate?langpair=es|
Roni Horn. Thicket No. 2. 1990 reconstructed 1999. Aluminum and plastic, 4
½ x 26 x 144 3/4”. Tate Gallery, London
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=21801&searchid=11261&tabview=image
Ursula von Rydingsvard. Three Bowls. 1990. Cedar and graphite,
9'4” x 15'10” x 8'. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Kansas
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/CollectionDatabase.cfm?id=11119&theme=kcsp
Angiola Churchill. Winter Labyrinth. 1990s – 2006. Paper, 80 x 60 x 40”.
Collection of the artist
http://www.wavehill.org/arts/angiola_churchill.html
Ann Hamilton. tropos. 1993. Horse hair, metal desk, woman reading book
burning words, audio tape, overall 5,000 sq. ft. Installation at DIA
Foundation, New York City
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/hamilton/card3.html
Bing Hu. Lulu. 1998. Glass, stockings, dimensions variable.
http://artasiamerica.org/works/1210/102
Jun Kaneko. Untitled Dango. 1999. Hand built, glazed ceramics, 36 ½ x 48 x
38”
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Jun_Kaneko_Ceramics.html
Matt Mullican Untitled. 1992. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 72 x 192”.
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
http://www.omart.org/collections/american-art/matt-mullican-untitled
Frank Gehry. Guggenheim Bilbao. 1997. Steel frame, titanium sheathing.
Bilbao, Spain
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Guggenheim_Bilbao.html/cid_bilbao_002.html
Richard Meier. Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. 1992-95. Spain
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/barcelona/jpgs/barcelona_richard_meier_6.jpg
Siah Armajani. Glass Bridge. 2003. Mixed Media. Cheekwood Art and
Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee
http://www.cheekwood.org/Art/Carell_Woodland_Sculpture_Trail.aspx
Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel. Metronome. 1999. New York City
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GRP/GRP015.htm
Ming Fay. Staten Island Ferry Terminal Benches. 2005. 12 benches, granite.
New York City
http://mingfay.com/publicart/bench.html
Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio. Mur River Island. 2003. Mur, Austria
http://www.graz03.at/servlet/sls/Tornado/web/2003/content_e/8FCE673302F9BE61C1256B81005CED38
Chapter 8.
Olafur Eliasson. The New York City Waterfalls. 2008. Four sites on the East
River, dimensions variable.
http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/08/eliasson/eliasson-08.html
Paul McCarthy. Santa Claus with a Buttplug. 2007. Inflatable balloon, 78 ¾' .
Antwerp, Belgum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tierecke_mccarthy.jpg
Claudia Vieira. Garden of Delights/Architectural Topographies. 2001-present.
http://www.re-title.com/artists/Claudia-VIEIRA.asp
Jim Lambie. Zobop series, taped floor piece and sculptures, Hirshhorn Museum
lobby installation. 2007. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, D.C.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/whatsup-jul06.html
Maurizio Cattelan. La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour). 1999. Lifesize, sculptural
installation
http://kostasvoyatzis.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/maurizio-cattelan-at-kunsthaus-bregenz-austria/
Richard Prince. Mission Nurse. 2002. Ink jet print and acrylic on canvas, 70 x
48” The Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, New York
http://www.artregister.com/seavest_collection/prince_nurse.html
Lucinda Devlin. Lethal Injection Chamber, Nevada State Prison,
Carson City, Nevada. 1991. Color coupler print, 20 x 20”.
Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery, New York
Marlene Dumas. Jen. 2005. Oil on canvas, 43 3/8 x 51 1/4”.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Rona Pondick. Dog. 1998-2001. Yellow stainless steel, 28 x 16 ½ x 32”.
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Banks Violette. Not Yet Titled. 2009. Installation and opening photographs,
Team Gallery, New York
Shaun El C. Leonardo. Steel Cage Match. 2006. Performance. Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
http://www.elcleonardo.com/press/Man%20and%20Superman_Artnet.pdf
Rachel Harrison. Nose. 2005. Wood, polystyrene, cement, acrylic, rubber,
cardboard, 76 x 30 x 18”. Saatchi Collection, London
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/rachel_harrison_nose_3.htm
Sarah Sze. The Art of Losing. 2004. Installation, mixed mass-produced
objects/materials. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan http://www.sarahsze.com/projects/Kanazawa_2004/Kanazawa_05.html
Xu Zhen. ShanghArt Supermarket. 2007. Mixed media (cash register, counter,
shelves, refrigerator and multiple consumer products), dimensions variable
http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/xu-zhen/
Gabriel Kuri. Untitled (superama). 2003. Hand woven gobelin, 113 x 44 1/2”.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
http://www.mcasd.org/collection/permcol/artists/kuri.html
Urs Fisher. You. 2007. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Installation at
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
http://www.gavinbrown.biz/artists/view/urs-fischer
Christoph Buchel. House Rules. 2002. Maccarone Gallery, New York. Plus
cancelled show at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary
Art), North Adams
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/rossi/rossi12-20-01.asp
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/10/21/dismantled/
Julie Mehretu. Empircal Construction, Istanbul. 2003. Ink and synthetic
ploymer on canvas, 10 x 15'. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=91778
Matthew Ritchie. The Hierarchy Problem. 2003. Multi-part installation
comprising wall drawing, rubber and Tyvek carpet, photographic light box,
and oil and marker painting, dimensions variable. Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York
Jessica Ciocci. P.E.A.C.E. 2006. Installation, Foxy Productions, New York
http://oneartworld.com/Foxy+Production/P.E.A.C.E..html
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung. Residential Erection. 2008. Installation and
animation. Postmasters Gallery, New York
Michael Bell Smith. Lighting Affects. 2008. 3-channel video loop, dimensions
variable. Foxy Production, New York
http://www.foxyproduction.com/artist/workview/5/5593/1
Vik Munoz. Tony Smith from Pictures of Dust. 2000. Photograph on plastic, 60
x 48”. Museum of Contemporary Photography a Columbia College, Chicago
http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/muniz_vik.php
Gedi Sibony. Partly Me Manners. 2008. Door and paper, 88 x 24 x 4”.
Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium
http://www.artinfo.com/news/enlarged_image/30131/135437/
Carlos Bunga. Untitled. 2006. Pressed cardboard, wrapping tape and paint,
dimensions variable.
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/3807
Tom Burr. Bitch Immediately After Vinyl. 2004. Stained plywood, metal
structure, vinyl (flower), 70 7/8 x 31 1//2 x 65”. Saatchi Gallery, London
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/tom_burr.htm
Shinique Smith. Bail Variant No. 011. 2005. Clothing, twine and wood,
74 x 29 x 29”.
http://www.theproposition.com/wp/overstock
China Marks. Whose Woods Are These? 2002. Fabric, thread, lace, silk-screen ink, fusible adhesive, 39 x 42”. Collection of the artist
http://www.chinamarks.net/html/whosewoods.html
Ghada Amer. Heather's Degrade. 2006. Embroidery and gel medium on
canvas, 78 x 62 1 1/2”. Brooklyn Museum, New York
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/5129/Heathers_Degrad%C3%A9
Cyrilla Mozenter. Guardian. 2007. Pencil on industrial wool felt hand sewn
with silk thread, 13 x 4 ½ x 12 1/2”.
http://www.lesleyheller.com/artists/cyrilla_mozenter/Guardian.html
Mary Heilmann. Surfing on Acid. 2005. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48”.
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=past&show=exhibit&e_id=2477#
Melissa Meyer. Galvin. 2006. Oil on canvas, 66 x66”.
http://www.elizabethharrisgallery.com/meyer_galvin.html
Harriet Korman. Untitled. 2007. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30”.
http://www.lennonweinberg.com/artists/korman/korman_unique/korman_1.html
Denyse Thomasos. Hybrid Nations. 2005. Wall installation. Art Gallery of
Ontario, Canada
http://www.lennonweinberg.com/artists/thomasos/thomasos_unique/thomasos_1.html
Atta Kwami. Axis. 2007. Acrylic on linen, 19 x 19”.
http://www.howardscottgallery.com/dynamic/artwork_display.asp?ArtworkID=643
Esther Mahlangu. Blanket. 2006. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 37 1/2”.
http://vgallery.co.za/34long/emn2.htm
Odili Donald Odita. Give Me Shelter. 2007. Acrylic latex wall paint, colored
pigment on wall, dimensions variable. 52nd Venice Biennale International
Art Exhibition
http://www.odilidonaldodita.com/exhibitions/givemeshelter/index.html
Christopher Wool. Untitled. 2008. Enamel on linen, 126 x 96”.
http://wool735.com/cw/images/?iNum=209
Cecily Brown. Skulldiver III (Flightmask). 2006. Oil on linen, 85 x 89”.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Joyce Pensato. Mickeys. 2003. Enamel on paper, 23 x 29”. Plus studio view.
http://www.petzel.com/artists/joyce-pensato/
Elizabeth Peyton. Keith (from Gimme Shelter). 2004. Oil on board,10 x 12”.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Olav Westphalen. Desert Dreams – Cock and Awe. 2009. 45 minute
performance consisting of 10 minutes of projected imagery (found
images/materials) with music by Jonas Knudson and a 30 minute reading
of a screenplay by the artist, , Moderna Museet, Stockholm
http://www.modernamuseet.se/v4/templates/template3.asp?id=4183
Diana Al-Hadid. The Tower of Infinite Problems. 2008. Polymer gypsum,
steel, plaster, fiberglass, wood, polystyrene, cardboard, wax, paint; Part
1- 95 x 174 x 99”, Part 2 – 63 x 83 x 105”. Saatchi Gallery, London
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/diana_hadid.htm
Wengechi Mutu. This you call Civilization?”. 2008. Mixed media, ink, collage,
contact paper on Mylar, 98 x 52”
http://www.vielmetter.com/index.php?site=artists&fromlink=&a_id=6. 3&detail=selectedworks&showmode=slideshow&startwork=1757&artistname
Martha Rosler. Red Stripe Kitchen from the series Bringing the War Home:
House Beautiful. 1962-67. Photomontage printed as color photo, 24 x
20”. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Martha Rosler. Hooded Captives from the series Bringing the War Home:
House Beautiful. 2004-2005. C print, 20 x 16”. Fotomuseum Winterthur,
Switzerland
http://fotomuseum.ch/index.php?id=302&L=1&artist_id=8121
Mark Andre Robinson. Myth Monolith (Liberation Movement). 2007. Found
wood objects, 132 x 168 x 84”
http://www.lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/2008/robinson/images/Robinson_Marc-4.jpg
Yin Xiuzhen. Flying Machine. 2008. Tractor, automobile, airplane, steel,
clothing, 12 x 52 x 40'. Shangahi 2008 Biennial
http://www.shanghaibiennale.org/upload/files/19-09-08/yin%20xiuzhen.jpg
Abraham Cruzvillegas. Menu in Progress. 2005. Set of 60 boxes, acrylic paint
on cardboard, wood, paper, plastic and polystyrene, maximum size 23 2/3
x 15 ¾ x 15 ¾, minimum size 4 ¾ x 2 ¾ x 1 1/2”.
http://www.kurimanzutto.com/english/artists/abraham-cruzvillegas.html
Takashi Horisaki. Social Dress New Orleans – 730 Days After. 2007. Latex,
cheesecloth, remnants of Katrina-damaged house, steel pipe, steel wire
cable, 18 x 12 x 30'. Installation New York City.
http://takashihorisaki.com/sculpture_index.html
Christian Holstad. Memorial. 2009. Graphite on newsprint, 11 ¼ x 23 3/4”.
http://www.danielreichgallery.com/holstad39.html
Joan Jonas. Lines in the Sand. 2002. Installation/performance, Documenta
11, Kassel, Germany
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/joanjonas.php?i=1013
Sophie Calle. Take Care of Yourself. 2003. Installation 2009, Paula Cooper
Gallery, New York
http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/56
Miwa Yaniga. Windswept Women: The Old Girls'Troupe. 2009. Installation
Venice Biennale, videotape
Patty Chang. In Love. YouTube tape of artist and work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cosHkYIJy4
Chen Chieh-Jen. Bade Area. 2005. One of 5 videos shown at the Asia Society,
New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/arts/design/25chan.html
Lee Bul. Cyborg creatures and Karaoke pod illustrations.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/02/lee-buls-futuri.php
Cao Fei. RMB City. On “Second Life” virtual network.
http://www.danwei.org/featured_video/china_tracy_cao_feis_second_li.php
Do-Ho Suh. Staircase IV. 2004. Translucent nylon, dimensions variable.
http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/artists/do-ho-suh/
Eugenio Dittborn. The 29th History of the Human Face (Sopap.) Airmail
Painting No. 168. 2007. Tincture, text, stiching, frotage and
photosilkscreen on 3 sections of duck fabric, 82 ½ 82 1/2”.
http://oneartworld.com/artists/E/Eugenio+Dittborn.html
Roman Ondak. Measuring the Universe. 2007. Marker on wall, installation,
dimensions variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/980
Laura Anderson Barbata. Website: Work from Dieu Donne installation to Jumbie parade.
Hsieh Ying-Chun. What to Be Done. 1999-ongoing. Various media.
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/bien/venice_biennale/2009/tour/taiwan/05_hsieh_ying_chun
Wenda Gu. United Nations United 7561 kilometers. 2002. 5000 meters human
hair braid (4698 miles), made of 7,561,000 meters human hair, rubber
stamps recreated 191 nations' names. Installation, Art Gallery, University
of North Texas, Denton
http://www.wendagu.com/installation/united_nations/un_7561kilometers01.html