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Page 1: Contemporary Contour

The Contemporary The Contemporary ContourContour

Instructor: Nguyen Tuan An

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Toward a Global Culture:Toward a Global Culture:

1. Postwar main events:

– Moon landing in 1969.

– Age of microtechnology, new forms of communication and the computer age.

– The Atomic Age The fear of nuclear weapons from the rogue nations or terrorist groups.

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2. Postwar intellectuals:

Satire: expressing the fear and hatred of modern warfare.

- Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961)

- Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)

- Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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3. The role of the United States:

- The U.S.: leader of the “free world” against communism.

- Global economy.

- New world order.

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4. The new movements:

- Human rights, Civil rights, Rights of women, Democratic movements in the U.S. and other countries.

- George Orwell: political novel 1984 - Alvin Toffler: Future Shock - William Harrison Faulkner - Toni Morrison

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Existentialism:Existentialism:

- Sren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855), a

Danish theologian and religious thinker,

emphasized the single individual (“the crowd is

untruth”) who exists in a specific set of

circumstances at a particular time in history

with a specific consciousness.

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- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), a French writer

and philosopher, Sartre wrote “People are

condemned to be free” and people are

responsible for creating themselves.

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- Albert Camus (1913-1960) and Simone de

Beauvoir (1908-1986): major voices of

demanding integrity in the face of the

absurdities and horrors of war-torn Europe.

- Existentialist themes: anxiety and alienation.

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Painting since 1945:Painting since 1945:

George Grosz (1893-1959)George Grosz (1893-1959)

Hitler the savior (1923)

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To Oskar Panizza (1917-1918)

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Edward Hopper (1882-1967)Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

Nighthawks (1942)

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Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)

Poppy (1927)

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Abstract Expressionism:Abstract Expressionism:

Abstract Expressionism has two characteristics:

• Unrecognizable content (and thus abstract).

• Using color, lines and shapes to express

interior states of subjective aesthetic

experience.

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Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)

Number 8 (1949)Number 8 (1949)

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Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)

Brink (1959)

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Jasper Johns (b.1930)Jasper Johns (b.1930)

Flag (1954)

The Return to Representation:The Return to Representation:

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Robert Rauschenberg (b.1925)Robert Rauschenberg (b.1925)

Canyon (1959)

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THANK YOU FOR LISTENINGTHANK YOU FOR LISTENING


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