Lecture 25: Art & Architecture Between the Wars

Slide List

Art:
- Picasso Still Life with Chair Caning , 1912 / Magritte Le Viol, 1934. {everyday objects}
- Calder The White Frame, 1934 / Lobster Trap & Fish Tail, 1939. {chance, found objects}
- El Lissitzky Self-Portrait, 1924 / study / Velazquez Las Meninas {art of the mind}
- Rodin The Kiss / Brancusi The Kiss {geometric abstraction}
Architecture: Utopianism, utility, trust in machine impersonality, geometry
- Bauhaus School, Walter Gropius 1925-6 Dessau, Germany.
- Mondrian Composition
- Gaudi Casa Mila, Barcelona 1905.
- Rietveld Schroeder House. Utrecht. 1924. {geometry}
  - Elements of Construction.
  - View./ Compare Wright's Robie House
- Le Corbusier.
  - Villa Savoye., Poissey, France. 1928-30.
    - view 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  - Plan for a Contemporary City, 1922. misc. Rockefeller Center, 1930s.
Sheeler Church Street El, 1920 / de Chirico Mystery & Melancholy of a Street {attitudes toward the city; social injustice}
Leger Le Grande Dejeuner, 1921 / Matisse The Dance, 1905.
Murals:
- Rivera The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, 1931.
Photo-Journalism: Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, 1936.
Social-Protest: Picasso Guernica, 1937.+ detail