Banksy
Jasper Johns
Fritz Koenig
Lee Miller (photographer)
Paul Nash
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Carl Fredrick Reutersward
WORLD WAR I PAINTERS : a useful list of artists and their paintings.
LIFE MAGAZINE WEBSITE here
LIST of PROTEST SONGS
Anti-war songs :
Imagine by John Lennon
Bring Em Home by Pete Seger
This Land is Your Land by Woodie Guthrie
Draft Dodger Rag by Phil Ochs
Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon
People Have the Power by Patti Smith
Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation by Tom Paxton
War by Edwinn Starr
I ain’t Marching Anymore by Phil Ochs
With God on our Side by Bob Dylan look here for context and documents.
Army Dreamer by Kate Bush
Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2
No Man’s Land by Eric Bogle
Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley
Spanish Bombs by the Clash
Goodbye Blue Sky by the Pink Floyd
Belfast Child by the Simple Minds
Russians by Sting
American Idiot by Greenday
Baghdad by the Offspring
Where is the Love by the Black Eyed Peas
Duane HANSON
Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925–January 6, 1996)
Born in Minnesota. Master of Fine Arts degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills in 1951.
Sculptor known for his lifecast realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyesterresin,fiberglass and bronze. Work often associated with the Pop Art movement, and hyperrealism.
Visit the Saatchi gallery website.
DIANE ARBUS
14 March, 1923, New York/26 July 1971
She studied photography in New School in New York with Marvin Israel and Richard Avedon and met Lisette Model. She worked in New York City, photographing strangers in the street. She was interested in showing diversity and people who were considered “different”.
Check out Diane Arbus’s photos here.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
1868, Glasgow /1928, London.
Architect. 1890 : Mackintosh second winner of the Alexander Thomson Travelling Studentship. Won a competition to design the Glasgow School of Art, his first commission and most important building.
The French resistance
Read the following sites about the French resistance :
Read about the cricket.
Listen to Le Chant des Partisans. Watch this video about D-Day, the movie, and this one too.
Read about planes on the website of the musée de l’aviation in Angers !
See the Caen memorial museum website.
Visit INA and watch videos online.
Kiki de Montparnasse
Read the following article about Kiki.
Read this blog to know about her biography.
Look at Le Violon d’Ingres by Man Ray on the site of the Getty Museum, Noire et Blanche on the same site, Kiki of Montparnasse by Pablo Gargallo, on the site of the Zabrieskie Gallery.
Watch the Youtube video here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nrGKWMaX-4
Think of the following artists : Soutine, Foujita, Mandel, Picabia, Cocteau… for whom she was a muse.
Nelson Mandela / South Africa
Listen to Invictus.
Watch Johnny Cleg, a white South African man learning to dance a Zulu traditional dance.
Read Nelson Mandela’s autobiography.
Look at the Audio slideshow about the long walk to freedom.
Watch the Goodbye Bafana trailer.
See the following sites about Apartheid :
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
http://www.africanaencyclopedia.com/apartheid/apartheid.html
http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/gallery.jsp?query=subject:Apartheid&lang=en&startat=18 (click on Apartheid : a crime against humanity)
See some South African crafts. Here., and some architecture, right here.
World War II : surviving the camps.
This site has specialized in documents about the survivors.
You can read Maus by Art Spiegelman (ask your teacher to lend it to you). Read this article about it.
You can read about the Exodus movie.
Read about a Jewish family’s history on the Ellis island site.
September 9/11
Check out this website to read the archives on that day.
Read about Saint Paul’s Chapel, the nearest Church to Ground Zero, and look at the photos by clicking on the artifact archive on the page.
Look at the New York Police Department site and see the photos.
See the firefighters’ memorial on the internet.
You can read :
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by J.S. Foer and The Good Life, by J. McInnerney. They have been translated into French !
