Contemporary Art Culture
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2009
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Contemporary Art Culture is about artists and musicians and the social and cultural conditions around them.
Contemporary Art Culture is organized according to two questions: "How do we see artworks and hear musical works?" and "When is art and music 'the real thing'?"
- Includes listening assignment forms on an enclosed CD - these listening activities are designed to help the reader identify influences within contemporary music. That might mean how blues styles influence everything from rock and roll, to soul, to classic rock, and to rap.
- Technical developments influence the styles of art forms and even made new forms possible - such as the development of amplifiers, microphones, and synthesizers in the music industry
- Contemporary Art Culture doesn't include every individual from the contemporary arts - examples are chosen from art and music to create a "jumping point" for the reader to critique others artists
- Covers the impact of mass-produced works on the forgotten communities in history. For example, fewer individuals are aware of Frank Baum's original series of novels after the release of The Wizard of Oz.
- Includes dramatic photos, assignments, activities, chapter main points, and more!
Introduction
Chapter One - How Do the Arts Move?Main Points
Get Started
Looking
Moving
Ideas
Moving the Eye
Space
Modern Painting
Action Painting from Surrealism
The Arts and the Press
Developments in Music
Forerunners of 1950s Rock-and-Roll
The Blues
Country
Chicago Blues
Blues and Jazz in Harlem
New Music in Bigger Spaces
Instruments, Technology, and Culture
Beaches, Bikinis, and Bombs
Assignment: Describe What You See
Chapter Two - The Youth Scene of the Late 1950s and Early 1960s
Main Points
"Being Somebody"
Color Field Painting
Yves Klein
Helen Frankenthaler
Mark Rothko
Barnett Newman
The Beat Generation
Builders of Rock Culture
DJs
Wolfman Jack
Early Rock-and-Roll Musicians
Girl Groups
Little Richard
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley
Pat Boone and Cover Songs
Youth Culture is Visualized
American Bandstand and Dick Clark
Don Kirshner
The Beach
Beatnik Culture Civilized
Beach Boys
British Invasion
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Assignment: Contemplate What You Describe
Chapter Three - The 19605 and Expansion of the Mind
Main Points
Ideas in Music and Art in Action
Pop Art
Andy Warhol
Claes Oldenburg
Roy Lichtenstein
James Rosenquist
Larry Rivers
Folk Music
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie
Gerdes Folk City
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
Countercultures and the Spiritual
Hippies
Haight-Ashbury
The Grateful Dead
Jimi Hendrix
Jefferson Airplane
Big Brother and the Holding Company and Janis Joplin
Woodstock
Other Mind Expansions
Rock Opera
Conclusion
Assignment: Social Interaction
Chapter Four - Late 1960s to 1970s
Main Points
Social Comment from Artists
Edward Kienholz
Marisol Escobar
George Segal.
Social Undercurrents in the Mass Media
Soul Music
Social Issues on Television
Monty Python
All in the Family
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Where Have We Been?
Chapter Five - Music and Art in the 1970s
Main Points
College Campus Unrest
Columbia University Protest
Kent State University Protest.
Visual Arts
Women Artists
Judy Chicago
Conceptual Artists
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The Reichstag
Photorealism
Richard Estes
Philip Pearlstein
Duane Hanson
Audrey Flack
Chuck Close
Minimalism
Donald Judd
Dan Flavin
Sol LeWitt
Minimalism in Music
Rock Music of the 1970s
Funk: From Blues, Rock, and Soul
Disco
Hard Rock
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Black Sabbath
Queen
American Rock
The Doors
Aerosmith
Alice Cooper
The Eagles
The Allman Brothers
Conclusion
Chapter Six - Neo-Expressionism and Punk: 1980s and the Early 1990s
Main Points
Introduction to the Setting
Background of Neo-Expressionism
Genres of Neo-Expressionism
Punk Music (Neo-Expressionism in Music)
New York Scene
English Scene: 1974-1976
California Hard Core Scene: 1978-1982
Washington, D.C. Hard Core Scene
(First Wave Straight Edge)
Riot Grrri and Queer Core Scenes
Berkeley Lookout! Pop-Punk Scene
Chapter Seven - Hip-Hop Culture
Main Points
Background of Hip-Hop
Tattoos
Graffiti
DJs
MCs
Break Dancing
Old School Rap
DJ Kool Herc
Afrika Bambaataa
Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel
Followers
New Waves of Rap
Run D.M.C
N.W.A
Beastie Boys
Chuck D
De La Soul.
Ice T
Women i