CHAPTER 29: Innovation and Continuity
Key Works
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-Portrait, 1980
Gilbert & George, Singing Sculptures, 1969
Laurie Anderson, Nerve Bible Tour, 1995
Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, 1968
Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, 1997
Richard Estes, Williamsburg Bridge, 1987
Duane Hanson, The Cowboy, 1995
Ron Mueck, Mask II, 2001
Constantin Brancusi, Sleeping Muse I, 1909–1910
Richard Estes, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1979
Jenny Holzer, Untitled (selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The
Survival Series, Under Rock, Laments, and Mother and Child Text), Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1989–1990
Mathew Barney, Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate, 1994
Marcel Breuer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1966
R. Buckminster Fuller, American Pavilion, Expo ‘67, Montreal, 1967
Charles W. Moore and William Hersey, Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, 1978–1979
Michael Graves, Public Services Building, Portland, Oregon, 1980–1982
I. M. Pei, Louvre Pyramid, Paris, 1988
Richard Rogers, Lloyd’s Building, London, 1986
Frank O. Gehry, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, 1993–1997
Frank O. Gehry, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, finished 1990
Computer-generated Catia image used for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Interior gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Zaha Hadid, IBA housing complex, Stressemannstrasse 109, Berlin, Germany, 1994
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970
Nancy Holt, Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings, Western Washington University, 1977–1978
Andy Goldsworthy, Icicles / thick ends dipped in snow then water / held until frozen to the work
/ occasionally using forked sticks as support until stuck / a tense moment when taking them
away / breathing on the stick first to release it / sun catching the work for a dangerous half
hour / but always intensely cold, 1987
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971–1995
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City, 2003
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979–2005
Valerie Jaudon, Long Division, 23rd Street Station, IRT Subway Line, New York, 1988
Jean-Michel Basquiat, CARBON/OXYGEN, 1984
Andres Serrano, Nomads (Sir Leonard), 1990
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974–1979
Kiki Smith, Mary Magdalene (front and rear views), 1994
Elizabeth Murray, The Lowdown, 2001
Maya Ying Lin, The Women’s Table, Yale University, 1993
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Bob Thompson, Crucifixion, 1964–1964
Romare Bearden, J Mood, c. 1985
Kara Walker, detail of Slavery! Salvery!, 2002
Yasumasa Morimura, Self-Portrait (Actress) / White Marilyn, 1996
Bruce Nauman, Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 1966–1970
Anselm Kiefer, To the Unknown Painter, 1983
Maya Ying Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Mall, Washington, D.C., 1981–1983
Jeff Koons, New Hoover, Convertibles, Green, Blue; New Hoover Convertibles, Green, Blue;
Double-Decker, 1981–1987
Nancy Graves, Morphose, 1986
Mark Tansey, Action Painting II, 1984
Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 1989
Raphael, La Fornarina, c. 1518
Nam June Paik, TV Buddha, 1974
Nam June Paik, Hamlet Robot, 1996
Bill Viola, The Crossing, fire still, 1996
Bill Viola, The Crossing, water still, 1996
Shirin Neshat, Fervor, 2000
Maps, Diagrams, and Projections
Schematic section of Lloyd’s Building
Frank O. Gehry, plan of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, finished 1997
Key Terms
geodesic dome
Videos
After Modernism
58 min., Blackwood
Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century
Seasons 1–3, 220 min. each, PBS
Art in an Age of Mass Culture
31 min., Blackwood
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
58 min., Blackwood
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Christo: Ten Works in Progress
55 min. (also 28 min. version), MBP
Christo: Wrapped Coast
28 min., MBP
Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways
25 min., MBP
Christo’s Islands
58 min., AA
Christo’s Running Fence
58 min., AA
Christo’s Valley Curtain
28 min., Maysles Films
Four Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg
47 min., Blackwood
Fourteen Americans: Directions of the 1970s
89 min., Blackwood
Buckminster Fuller: Grandfather of the Future
25 min., VM
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
94 min., PBS
Frank Gehry
58 min., Blackwood
Birth of an Icon: Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall
11 min., FFHS
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
33 min., FHHS
Installation Art
29 min., FFHS
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
96 min., Facets
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Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America
58 min., Blackwood
Right Out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago’s “Dinner Party”
1980, Phoenix
Smithson and Serra: Beyond Modernism?
25 min., FFHS
Video Art
30 min., FFHS
Video Artists, Video Art: Film at the Fringes of Experience (4 parts)
42–54 min. each, FFHS
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