1. AP Art History
Note-taking Outline—Chapter 34
FROM THE MODERN TO THE POSTMODERN AND BEYOND: THE LATER 20TH CENTURY
(Mnemonic: “Modernism and „Less is More‟ to Postmodernism and „Less is a Bore!‟”)
KEY VOCABULARY (not including artists‟ names or works)
Modernism Formalism Postmodernism Modernist
Formalism abstract expressionism Minimal Art
Post-Painterly Abstraction Color-Field Painting Conceptual Art
“Non-Art” Performance Art Pop Art
Earth Art
SECTION I: MODERNISM, FORMALISM, EXPRESSIONISM (PAGES 1031-
1043)
Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-1 Painting Francis Bacon Brutality of War
34-3 Man Pointing Giacometti Existential Human

2. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-4 Number 1, 1950 Pollock Abstract expression
34-6 Woman I De Kooning Raw abstraction
34-8 No. 14 Rothko Meaning in color

3. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-9 Cubi XIX David Smith Stainless steel weld
34-11 Mas o Menos Frank Stella Purity of paint
34-14 Die Tony Smith Minimal art

4. SECTION II: SCULPTURE, PERFORMANCE ART, CONCEPTUAL ART, POP
ART (PAGES 1043-1054)
Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-16 Vietnam Wall Maya Ying Lin Power of minimal
34-19 Hang-Up Eva Hesse “Non-Art” art
34-25 One and Three Chairs Kosuth Conceptual art

5. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-26 The True Artist. . . Nauman Conceptual art
34-27 Just What Is It. . .? Hamilton Pop art
34-28 Flag Jasper Johns Commonly seen

6. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-29 Canyon Rauschenberg Combines media
34-30 Hopeless Lichtenstein Art in cartoons
34-31 Green Coca-Cola Bottles Warhol Repetition is art

7. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-32 Marilyn Diptych Warhol Mass culture
SECTION III: SUPERREALISM, ENVIRONMENTAL ART, ARCHITECTURE
(PAGES 1054-1067)
34-34 Marilyn Flack Superrealism
34-37 Spiral Jetty Smithson Earth art

8. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-41 Guggenheim Museum F. L. Wright Organic forms
34-42 Notre-Dame-du-Haut Le Corbusier Sculpted forms
34-46 Seagram Building Rohe &Johnson Steel and glass

9. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-49 AT&T Building Johnson & Burgee Classic elements
34-52 Pompidou Center Rogers and Piano Deconstruction
SECTION IV: NEW MEDIA (PAGES 1068-1090)
34-59 The Dinner Party Judy Chicago Celebrating women

10. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-70 Public Enemy Hammons Viewer introspection
34-71 Trade Quick-to-See Smith Native American
34-74 “When I put my hands. . .” Wojnarowicz Dealing with AIDS

11. Figure #: Subject: Artist: Key Concept:
34-79 The Crossing Viola Digital Sensory Experience
34-82 A Short History of Modernist Painting Tansey Critique of art history