The Age of Affluence

I. Existentialism.

A. Soren Kierkegaard.

B. Jean-Paul Sartre.

C. Simon de Beauvoir.

II. Abstract Expressionism.

A. Jackson Pollack.

B. Willem de Kooning.

C. Mark Rothko.

D. Helen Frankenthaler.

III. Architecture.

A. Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus.

B. Mies van der Rohe and International Style.

C. Le Corbusier and "the machine for living."

D. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie Home.

IV. Drama and Literature.

A. Samuel Beckett: Act Without Words (read in class).

B. Jack Kerouac and the Beats: On the Road (excerpt).

C. Allen Ginsberg: Howl (end of chapter).

V. Pop Art and Culture.

A. Robert Rauschenberg.

B. Louise Nevelson.

C. Andy Warhol.

D. Roy Lichtenstein.

E. Claes Oldenberg.

VI. Dance and Music.

A. John Cage and Merce Cunningham.

VII. Minimalist Art.

A. Dennis Judd.

B. Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

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