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Art in Humanities Readings Outlines Chapter 3 Readings for the study slides will be announced in the lectures.

CHAPTER 3: THEMES OF ART Thinking about art: Iconoclasm Iconoclasm is derived from the Greek for “image breaking.” It was coined to describe one side of a debate that raged for over a century in the Christian empire of Byzantium Pablo Picasso’s Guernica he started Guernica and completed it in little over a month. The finished mural shocked those who saw it; it remains today a chillingly dramatic protest against the brutality of war Christian Boltanski’s Alter to the Chases High School Christian Boltanski draws on our memory of the historical episode known as the Holocaust, Boltanski rephotographed each face, then enlarged the results into a series of blurry portraits Artists: Robert Rauschenberg the visual impact of daily life had outgrown the ability of any single image to convey it. Instead, to communicate the energy and vitality of his time and place, Rauschenberg treated his canvas like a gigantic page in a scrapbook Meta Warrick Fuller’s Talking Skull Kneeling before the skull, naked and vulnerable, the boy seems to hear an answer to his pleading. On one level, Talking Skull embodies a universal message about the desire for communion beyond the boundaries of our brief lifetime. Artists: Yayoi Kusama As an adult, she translates these experiences into art. Love Is Calling is an Infinity Mirrored Room, a room lined with mirrors so that anything in it multiplies in endless reflections. Kusama created her first Infinity Mirrored Room in 1965, carpeting its floor Landscape in the Chinese painting tradition but its purpose was never to record the details of a particular site or view. Rather, painters learned to paint mountains, rocks, trees, and water so that they could construct imaginary landscapes for viewers to wander through in the mind’s eye Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty Smithson was drawn to the idea that an artist could participate in the shaping of landscape almost as a geological force. Like the garden at Ryoan-ji, Spiral Jetty continued to change according to natural processes after it was finished. Salt crystals

accumulated and sparkled on its edges. Depths of water in and around it showed themselves in different tints of transparent violet, pink, and red. Spiral Jetty was submerged by the rising waters of the lake soon after it was created Jeff Wall’s A Sudden Gust of Wind But he does not practice photography in a straightforward way, going into the world to take pictures of objects he sees or events he witnesses. Instead, he uses the technology of photography to construct an image, much as a painter organizes a painting or a film director goes about making the artificial reality of a film...