Chapter 3

the art of having a lofty perspective

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Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

Marcel Duchamp, Bottle Rack, 1914

Piero Manzoni, Artist’s Shit, 1961

Lucas Cranach, Venus and Cupid, 1531

Albrecht Durer, Drawing of Female Nude

Michelangelo, Study of a Male Nude or Ignudo, 1508

Pablo Picasso, Nude Under a Pine Tree, 1959

Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid, Yalta Conference: Judgment of Paris

Mont Sainte Victoire

Cezanne, Mont Sainte Victoire, 1886

Cezanne, Mont Sainte Victoire, 1887

Mont Ventoux

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above a Sea Fog, 1818

Thomas Hill, View of the Yosemite Valley, 1897

Albert Bierstadt, Storm in the Mountains, 1870

Thomas Cole, Cabin in the Woods, c. 1848

Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 1953-54

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503 – 1517

Christo & Jeanne Claude, Wrapped Reichstag (Project for West Berlin), 1971 – 95

Christo & Jeanne Claude, Scale Model, 1981

Christo & Jeanne Claude, Drawing in Two Parts, 1994

Andreas Gursky, Untitled XV, 2005

Andreas Gursky, Dortmund, 2009

Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent, 2001

Thomas Struth, Ulsan 2, 2010

Thomas Struth, Parkview Apartments, 2007

Candida Hofer, Teatro La Fenice Di Venezia V, 2011

Robert Adams, from The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, 1974

Robert Adams, from The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, 1974

Robert Adams, from The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, 1974

Robert Adams, from The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, 1974

Robert Adams, Oregon Series: Turning Back, 1999 – 2003

Robert Adams, Oregon Series: Turning Back, 1999 – 2003

Robert Adams, Oregon Series: Turning Back, 1999 – 2003

Robert Adams, Oregon Series: Turning Back, 1999 – 2003

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Before Reading:

1. Reflect (in at least ONE PAGE) on your ideas about beauty. What is beauty? You may use outside sources (philosophy, theology, science…) to inform your thoughts.

Read:• Chapter 3, “The Art of Having a Lofty

Perspective”

Respond in your Journal:

1. Reflect (in at least ONE PAGE) on chapter 3, a quote or one of the videos shown in class.

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