Term I, 2008-2009

UNIT 6: PIN UPS AND PORNOGRAPHY

Willem do Kooning 1950s Richard Lindner Allan Jones Torn Wesselmann Mel Ramos

Women Series Furniture Women Great American Nude Series Popular Culture Pin-ups

Assigned Readings:

Thomas Hess, "Pinup and Icon," 222-237, in Hess and Nochlin (editors), Woman as Sex Object Studies in Erotic Art, Art New Annual XXXVIII, New York: Newsweek, 1972.
[RINGLING MUSEUM LIBRARY: N 7630 W37 1S72]

Duncan, Carol,"The MOMA's Hot Mamas," 171-178, Art Journal 48 (Summer 1989) [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY JOURNAL: N81 A887
Reprinted in Brounde and Garrard, editors, (1992) The Expanding Discourse:  Feminism and Art History New York: Harper Collins, 347-358.
[ELECTRONIC RESERVE FOR UNIT 2]

Suggested Readings:

Thomas B. Hess, Willem de Kooning, New York, 1968.
            [NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY; ND 237 .D334 1142]

Richard Wortley, Pin-Up's ?ro2ress, London: Panther, 1971.

J. Anthony Lukas, "The 'Alternative Life-Style' of Playboys and Playmates,' New York Times Magazine June 11, 1972,     72-75.

McCarthy, David, (1990) 'Tom Wesselmann and the Americanization of the Nude 1961-1963," Smithsonian Studies in American Art, (Summer/Fall 1990), 102-127.
[Xerox available]

Hunter, Sam, Tom Wesselman. New York: Rizzoli.
            [USF/TAMPA LIBRARY: N6537 .W37 1186 1994]

Claridge, Elizabeth, The Girl's of Mel Ramos. A Playboy Press Book, 1975.
            [ILL: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: ND 237 R125 QS]

Rosenblum, Robert, Mel Ramos. Koln: Taschen, 1997.

PIN UPS AND PORNOGRAPHY: SLIDE LIST

Willem De Kooning
1950            WOMAN I
1952            WOMAN II
1952-3         WOMAN IV
1952-3         WOMAN V
1952            WOMAN AND BICYCLE
1954            MARILYN MONROE
1967            THE VISIT

Richard Lindner
1959            THE TARGET
1963            THE 119TH DIVISION
1964            ONE WAY
1964            THE TARGET
1966            CHECKMATE
1969            GIRL WITH HOOP

Allan Jones
1969           MANIKIN FOR CHAIR
1969           CHAIR
                HAT STAND
1991           JONES WITH HATSTAND MAGAZINE COVER FOR CONTINENTAL
1972           SECRETARY
1972           BARE AND BEHOLD
1974           HOLDING POWER·
1976           LEOPARD LADY

Tom Wesselmann
1964          GREAT AMERICAN NUDE #57
1965          GREAT AMERICAN NUDE #74
1966          GREAT AMERICAN NUDE #82
1967          GREAT AMERICAN NUDE #91
1967          SEASCAPE # 19
1967          BEDROOM PAINTING #6
1989          MONICA WITH TULIPS

Mel Ramos
1964         MISS CORN FLAKES
1965         MISS FRUIT SALAD
1965         MISS LIFESAVER
1972         ODE TO ANG
1973         MANET'S OLYMPIA
1973         TOUCHE BOUCHER
1974         REGARD GERARD