Early 20th Century Modern Art

Images

Slides on Blackboard

Readings

Fauvism

• Read: Dr. Virginia B. Spivey, “Fauvism, an introduction,” in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015.
• Read: “Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat,” from HenriMatisse.org.
• Watch: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Henri Matisse, The Red Studio,” in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015.

German Expressionism

• Read: Shawn Roggenkamp, “Expressionism, an introduction,” in Smarthistory, October 2, 2016.
• Read and Watch (scroll down and click on audio/video links): “Ernst Kirchner, Street, Dresden,” in MoMA.
• Watch: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Vasily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (second version),” in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015.

Cubism

• Watch: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015.
• Watch: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Pablo Picasso and the new language of Cubism,” in Smarthistory, May 12, 2018.
• Read: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Georges Braques, The Portuguese,” in Smarthistory.
• Watch: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning,” in Smarthistory.

Futurism

• Read and Watch (scroll down and click on audio/video links):  “Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,” in MoMA

Suprematism

• Watch: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “A new world after the Russian Revolution: Malevich’s Suprematist Composition: White on White,” in Smarthistory, June 2, 2018.

Dada

• Read: Dr. Tom Folland, “Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2,” in Smarthistory, January 9, 2017.
• Watch: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Jean (Hans) Arp, Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance,” in Smarthistory, October 8, 2009.

Surrealism

• Watch: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe),” in Smarthistory, November 27, 2015.
• Read and Listen:“Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory,” in MoMA.
• Read: Dr. Doris Maria-Reina Bravo, “Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas),” in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015.

American

• Watch: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris, “Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series,” in Smarthistory, August 9, 2015.
• Watch: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, “Grant Wood, American Gothic,” in Smarthistory, December 4, 2015.
• Read and Listen (scroll down and click on audioclip): “Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti,” in the Whitney Museum of Art.