Great 20th Century Works of Art

The Wild Bunch! That's when American film started getting really vicious.

Well I already picked 2001, its either that or star wars.

Alternatively Kurosawa and Seven Samurai….

It has been ripped off so often.

Kubricks Tom Lyndon kicked off a whole period drama Genre.

Massive Attack created Trip Hop.

Personally I would end up writing about Damien Hirst, anish Kapoor or the Sex Pistols.

Perhaps if it was the pistols I would write about ripped clothing, but then Richard Hell invented that.

You could be cliche and do Birth of a Nation for film

you could write about one of the greatest photos ever….

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eisenstein. . .any of the following would be great: battleship potemkin, ivan the terrible and/or alexander nevsky (my personal favourite).

yes, this is a great photo

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Originally posted by Andrew WK:
you could write about one of the greatest photos ever….

perhaps a story on how that turned into this

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would be interesting.

Originally posted by Andrew WK:
5?©¬5Ah$riginally posted by Venerable Bede:
[most of that has already been written about, and mostly in one book: "lipstick traces" by greil marcus. one of my favourite books, too.

ah something else have never heard of that I will make you lend me.

it's currently out on loan, so i'll try to get it back sometime soon.

incidentially, 2001 will be the final film in this summer's "screen on the green" on august 11. other movies showing this summer: July 14 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; July 21 The Postman Always Rings Twice; July 28 Mutiny on the Bounty; August 4 Jailhouse Rock

Forget pop culture and postmodern visual arts. The Wasteland and perhaps The Rite of Spring are far more important works that reflect all artistic theory of the time and to this day. You can't get away with writing 20 pages of bullshit on these subjects.

Film is problematic - it would be troublesome pinning down one film that "changed everything" in its medium. Many have created or revolutioned genres, but I don't think that's what you are looking for.

What about the Armory Show of 1913? It really heralded the start of the modern movement.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

incidentially, 2001 will be the final film in this summer's "screen on the green" on august 11. other movies showing this summer: July 14 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; July 21 The Postman Always Rings Twice; July 28 Mutiny on the Bounty; August 4 Jailhouse Rock

thank you.

In terms of 20th century recordings, The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was maybe the most revolutionary, innovative recording of its time. I believe they only had 8 or 12 tracks to work with, amazing considering all the orchestral elements of the recording. Also, they used a number of alternative mic techniques, effects, and equalization tricks. Producer George Martin has said that virtually nothing was recorded the usual way. Perhaps most unusual of all for that time, they sliced and diced the tapes, splicing them together in odd ways, setting a trend which many others have since explored…you probably could make a case for this technique setting the stage for current computer eletronica compositions, or even ProTools recording technology. One of the first albums with a gatefold sleeve, it also was one of the first albums to feature printed lyrics in the cover art….a revolution in album design as well as recording technique. There is plenty of documentation about all this, and with all the pop culture tie-ins I'm sure there's enough to get a 20-page paper out of it.

Originally posted by larkjr:
Forget pop culture and postmodern visual arts. The Wasteland and perhaps The Rite of Spring are far more important works that reflect all artistic theory of the time and to this day. You can't get away with writing 20 pages of bullshit on these subjects.

Film is problematic - it would be troublesome pinning down one film that "changed everything" in its medium. Many have created or revolutioned genres, but I don't think that's what you are looking for.

The Wasteland is out as an option, as we are covering it in class. And the professor said nobody could write about a musical piece unless they know how to read sheet music. Which excludes me.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

How 'bout Peter Behrens Turbine building, early 1900's…I think the first curtain-wall construction building…curtain-wall construction certainly changed the way we live and work in cities…

oh, one word: bauhaus.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
oh, one word: bauhaus.

but the architecture…NOT the band

Originally posted by ggw:
And the professor said nobody could write about a musical piece unless they know how to read sheet music. Which excludes me.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

You should rag on your professor for that.

I mean can you paint or sculpt or direct or act or design houses or towerblocks.

So then (y)our appreciation of any of these artforms is as an outsider.

Originally posted by Celeste:

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
oh, one word: bauhaus.

but the architecture…NOT the band

right, the architecture for the paper. . .but i love the band too.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by Celeste:

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
oh, one word: bauhaus.

but the architecture…NOT the band

right, the architecture for the paper. . .but i love the band too.

explain to me what the band has in common with the movement, if anything…I tried to dig them back in the day, but it just didn't happen for me

For a film, I would suggest a Jacques Tati film called Mon Oncle. This was, in some ways, a predecessor to Warhol and Waters in their Modern Camp styles yet maintaining many of the important elements of Classic film storytelling. This is a brilliant work of art on so many levels. There is a scene in the beginning that works very much like a painting in the way that it forces the eye to travel from vingette to vingette and across the screen and through the screen in a manner creating the illusion of 3 dimensional depth. The man was a true master! Probably my favorite film of all time.