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66 Cards in this Set
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King Oliver
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"Working Man Blues"
New Orleans Jazz |
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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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"Tiger Rag"
Dixieland Jazz |
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Billie Holiday
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"Easy to Love"
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Duke Ellington
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"Black Beauty"
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Benny Goodman
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"Somebody Stole My Gal"
Swing |
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George Gershwin
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"Rhapsody in Blue"
Symphonic Jazz |
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The Carter Family
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"John Hardy"
Folk |
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Patsy Cline
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"Walkin' After Midnight"
Country |
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Bill Monroe
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"Blue Moon of Kentucky"
Bluegrass |
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Little Richard
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"Ready Teddy"
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Elvis Presley
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"All Shook Up"
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Joan Baez
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"Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
1960s Folk Revival |
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Bob Dylan
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"Subterranean Homesick Blues"
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Max Weber
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"Rush Hour, New York"
Cubism |
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John Marin
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"Lower Manhattan"
Cubism |
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Georgia O'Keefe
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"Ranchos Chapel"
"Great American Painting" |
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Joseph Stella
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"Brooklyn Bridge"
"Battle of Lights, Coney Island" Futurism |
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Charles Sheeler
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"Classic Landscape"
Futurism |
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Marcel Duchamp
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"Fountain" (Dadaism)
"Nude Descending a Staircase" |
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Thomas Hart Benton
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"Arts of the West"
Regionalism |
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John Steuart Curry
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"Tornado Over Kansas"
Regionalism |
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Grant Wood
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"American Gothic"
"Stone City" Regionalism |
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Maynard Dixon
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"Forgotten Man"
Regionalism |
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Arshile Gorky
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"The Liver is the Cock's Comb"
Surrealism |
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Jackson Pollock
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"Autumn Rhythm"
Abstract Expressionism |
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William de Kooning
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"Woman & Bicycle"
Abstract Expressionism |
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Franz Kline
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"Caboose"
Geometric Expressionism |
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Robert Motherwell
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"Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV"
Colorfield Painting |
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Mark Rothko
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"Number 10"
Colorfield Painting |
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Helen Frankenthaler
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"The Bay"
"Small's Paradise" Colorfield Painting |
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Norman Rockwell
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"Four Freedoms"
Commercial/Popular Art |
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Robert Rauschenberg
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"Estate"
"Bed" Pop Art |
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Jasper Johns
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"Flag"
Pop Art |
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Andy Warhol
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"Marilyn Monroe"
"Coca Cola Bottles" Pop Art |
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Roy Lichtenstein
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"I Don't Care"
Pop Art |
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Ernest Hemingway
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"Hills Like White Elephants"
American Modernist writer quintessential modernist figure expatriate, minimalist |
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T.S. Eliot
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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Modernist writer Originally born American but expatriate who gained British citizenship |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby author
lived through the Jazz Age critic of the American Dream |
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Ansel Adams
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"a straight photographer who belonged to the Western school; he specialized in images of Yosemite National Park"
(from study guide) |
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Horatio Alger
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writer of cookie cutter novels in which lower class boys became wealthy through "luck and pluck"
part of the self-made man myth |
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Alfred Stieglitz
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owner of The 291 Gallery (responsible for introducing lots of Modernist art to American audiences)
married to Georgia O'Keefe part of the Photo-Secession group initially an art photographer but later tried straight photography "The Steerage" most famous photograph |
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Edward Steichen
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art (pictorialist) photographer
tried social documentary photography later in his career part of the Photo-Secessionist group friend of Alfred Stieglitz |
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Jacob Riis
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social documentary photographer
not necessarily sympathetic (kind of ambushed people to capture their pathetic lives) developed the flash (allowed him to take pictures in formerly inaccessible places) influential photoessay- How the Other Half Lives |
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Lewis Hine
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social documentary photographer
shots were also aesthetically pleasing muckraker (photos as tools for social reform) |
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Paul Strand
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straight photographer with a modernist sensibility
student of Lewis Hine able to actually make a living as a photographer |
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Dorothea Lange
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straight, aesthetically sensitive photographer
hired by the government to document Depression era controversial for posing shots "Migrant Mother" |
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Walker Evans
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straight photographer
hired to document Depression era didn't get to know his subjects |
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Edward Weston
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Western School photographer
cofounder of f64 group famous for his photographs of nudes and vegetables |
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Hugh Ferriss
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Neo-American (Modernist) style architect
Aztec-temple style skyscrapers (fit NY setback laws which required light to reach ground level) Dr. Soper called him an "impractical visionary" |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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modernist architect with sensitivity to organic shapes and natural surroundings
pioneered Prairie Style buildings Falling Water house with stream running through it |
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Buckminster Fuller
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modernist architect with Utopian aspirations
geodesic domes |
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Orson Welles
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creator of the modernist masterpiece "Citizen Kane"
took complete control of his movies was previously a radio and Broadway star |
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Henrik Ibsen
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considered the father of modern drama
Norwegian playwright encouraged realism in theater |
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Eugene O'Neill
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American playwright
believed in the sacred mission of modernist experimental theatre |
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Arthur Miller
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social dramatist playwright
writer of Death of a Salesman investigation of mainstream cultural values mixture of modernism, social realism, and realism |
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Frederick Jackson Turner
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American historian who proposed frontier thesis
1. frontier has made America exceptional 2. frontier is closing (need to find new frontiers) -> masculinity crisis |
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Robert Frank
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American photographer
critic of American society & TIME Magazine influenced by the countercultural movement The Americans photoessay |
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Allen Ginsberg
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Beat poet
mantra-like repetition follower of Eastern religions critic of society |
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Jack Kerouac
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Beat writer
famous for his novel The Road heavy drinker/partier |
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William Burroughs
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influential Beat writer alongside Kerouac and Ginsberg
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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civil rights activist
postmodern writer/speaker bricolage/collage of multi-voiced ideas |
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Michael Herr
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Postmodernist writer
piece in literature reader about war |
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Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
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Postmodernist writer
Sometimes it Just Happens That Way, That's All hybridity fragmented memories |
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Clement Greenberg
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influential art critic
promoted Abstract Expressionism critic of Pop Art |
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Michael Graves
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Postmodern architect
designed the Humana Building |
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Maya Lin
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designed the Vietnam War Memorial
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