Intro lecture Flashcards
1
Q
1960s
A
when pop culture emerged/ baby boom children grew up rebelled against their parents empires collapsing Vietnam and Korean war geo-politics student protests nationalism the Cold War
2
Q
definition of modernism
A
Greenberg VS Herskovits
3
Q
Robert Frank, ‘The Americans’
A
1959
photo series, road trip with beat poets
trolley car in Chicago
captured the Jim Crow laws.
4
Q
Pollock, ‘Lavender Mist’
A
1950
title taken form works of an African American jazz musician, written out of G’s narrative
channelled Picasso/ Native American art forms
5
Q
Norman Lewis, ‘Metropolitan Crowd’
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1946
can’t channel Picasso’s spirit, would be primitivising, no positive cultural resource to draw on
6
Q
Individualism
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during the 1940s, many artists endorsed notions of individualism
collective was sidelined making it difficult to talk about race
7
Q
Norman Lewis, Alabama
A
1960
Civil Right movement
painting is entirely in black and white, political charge
8
Q
Ralph Ellison
A
‘The Invisible Man’
