IMAGES OF WOMEN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY     TERM I, 2008-2009       Hassold

 

 

UNIT 2:  PRIMITIVISM IN MODERN ART: PICASSO - DE KOONING

 

GAUGUIN:                                  TATITIAN IMAGES

PICASSO:                     1907       DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON

                                    1925       THREE DANCERS

                                    1932       GIRL BEFORE A MIRROR

                                    1933       MINOTAUR (collage)               

DE KOONING:               1950-2    WOMAN I

                                    1950-3     WOMAN SERIES      

 

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Assigned Readings:

 

TEXT: Torgovnick, Marianna, Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

                        Chapter 1. "Defining the Primitive/Reimagining Modernity," 3-41.

                        Chapter 6. "William Rubin and the Dynamics of Primitivism," 119-140.

                        Chapter 10. "Entering Freud's Study," 194-209. [TOTAL

                         

Hal Foster, (1985) "The 'Primitive' Unconscious of Modern Art, or White Skin Black Masks," 181-210; 228-233 in Recodings: Art Spectacle, Cultural Politics, Bay Press, Port Townsend, Washington

            [U.S.F. LIBRARY: NX/456.5/P66/F67/1985]

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: NX/456.5/P66/F67/ 1984]

            [ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]

 

Duncan, Carol, (1989) "The MOMA's Hot Mamas," 171-78, Art Journal 48 (Summer 1989)

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY PERIODICAL:

            Reprinted in Broude and Garrard, editors, (1992) The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, New York: Harper Collins, 347-358

            [ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]

 

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Suggested Readings:

 

Robert Goldwater, (1936/1967) Primitivism In Modern Art, revised edition, New York, Random House, Chapter V, "Intellectual Primitivism," 145-163.

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: ND/1265/G63/1967]

 

Leo Steinberg, (1972) "The Philosophical Brothel, Part 1," 20-29, Art News, September 1972;

            "The Philosophical Brothel, Part 2." 38-47, Art News, October 1972.

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY PERIODICALS: N/1/A6]

 

Daix, Pierre, (1988) "Dread, Desire and the Demoiselles," 134-137, Art News, Summer 1988

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N 1 A 61]

            [ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]

 

Bois, Yve-Alain, (1988) "Painting as Trauma," 131-140, 172-173, Art In America 76, (June 1988)

            [NEW COLLEGE PERIODICAL:

 

 

 

Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, "Going Native: Paul Gauguin and the Invention of Primitivist Modernism," Art in America, 77, (July 1989): 118-129.

[NEW COLLEGE PERIODICAL:Reprinted in Broude and Garrard, editors, (1992) The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, New York: Harper Collins, 313-329

 

 

Brooks, Peter, "Gauguin's Tahitian Body," Yale Journal of Criticism 3, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 51-90.

            Reprinted in Broude and Garrard, editors, (1992) The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, New York: Harper Collins, 330-345.

 

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Additional Readings: BACKGROUND/PRIMITIVISM

 

Katia Samaltanos, Appolinaire Catalyst for Primitivism, Picabia and Duchamp, 1984, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, 1984.

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N/6494/P7/S26/1984]

 

William Rubin, "Picasso," pp. 241-343 in Vol. I, Primitivism and Modern Art, William Rubin, (ed.) 1985, New York Graphic Society Books 

            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N/6494/P7/P75/1984]

 

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UNIT 2: PRIMITIVISM IN MODERN ART: PICASSO

 

PICASSO          1906                 SELF PORTRAIT

                        1906                 PORTRAIT GERTRUDE STEIN

                        1906                 NUDE COMBING HER HAIR

                        1906                 TWO NUDES    (248 RUBIN/PRIMITIVISM)

 

                        1907                 HEAD

                        1907                 HEAD

 

PICASSO          1907                 NUDE WITH A TOWEL

                        1906-7              STUDY FOR HEAD OF NUDE WITH A TOWEL

                        1907                 HEAD

                        SPRING  1907   HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF A SAILOR OR A WOMAN

                        SPRING  1907   BUST OF A WOMAN

 

CEZANNE         1897                 BATHERS

                        1879-82             THREE BATHING WOMEN (Formerly collection of Matisse)

 

PICASSO          1907                 STUDY FOR DEMOISELLES: MEDICAL STUDENT,                                                                                                             SAILOR AND FIVE NUDES IN A BORDELLO

                        1907                 STUDY FOR DEMOISELLES: FIVE NUDES

                        1907                 LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON

                                                DETAILS OF BODIES

                                    **          HEAD #1

                                    **          HEAD #2

                                                HEAD #3: FACE/DAN MASK

                                                HEAD #4: FACE/ETOUMBI MASK

                                                HEAD #5

                                                SICKNESS MASK--PENDE

 

                        1907                 NUDE WITH RAISED ARMS 'DANCER OF AVIGNON'

                                                RELIQUARY FIGURE KOTA GABON

                                                SPIRIT OF THE DEAD BAKOTA

SUMMER          1907                 HEAD WITH SCARIFICATION

                        1907                 HEAD WITH SCARIFICATION

                        1908                 WOMAN'S HEAD

                                                FANG MASK, GABON

                        1906-7              HEAD

                                                NGI SOCIETY MASK, GABON

 

                        1908                 NUDE IN FORREST (THE BIG DRYAD)

 

                        1925                 THREE DANCERS

                        1932                 GIRL BEFORE A MIRROR/FACE

                                                KWAKIUTL MASK - BRITISH COLUMBIA

 

                        1933                 MINOTAUR (collage: cover for Skira Publication)                                                                                        

DE KOONING:  1948                 WOMAN     

                        1950-2              WOMAN I

                        1952                 WOMAN II

                        1952-3              WOMAN AND BICYCLE

                        1952-3              WOMAN III

                        1952-3              WOMAN IV

                        1952-3              WOMAN V

                        1953                 WOMAN VI

                        1954                 MARILYN MONROE

 

 

* MOMA WILLEM DE KOONING N 6537  D43 A4 1983