Swinging Bachelor Pads (Part 1) A bachelor pad is a slang term for a house (pad) in which a bachelor (a single man) lives. The exact standards on what constitutes a bachelor pad are often ambiguous…
Tag: Art History
Subject: 18th Century English paintings …. From a library Request For Information card from the 1976. “Why do 18th century English paintings have so many squirrels in them, and how…
Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary…
Dada was an Art movement with its peak in 1916-1920s. This movement was established as a position against the War, and particularly World War I. They saw all the negativity…
Very active at the time of the epochal “Modern Architecture” exhibition was another leading exponent of modern architecture, the American, Frank Lloyd Wright. Although his work was recognized in the…
Comments on Post-Modernism 03:02:34 “Post-modernism is a very complicated term.” 03:05:53 “Post-modernism lacks central leadership or a hierarchy as well as an organizing principle.” 03:08:42 “Apparent post-modern attitudes involve irony,…
Andy Warhol Eating A Hamburger A Burger King Whopper, with Heinz Ketchup. http://youtu.be/Ejr9KBQzQPM “My name is Andy Warhol and I just finished eating a hamburger.” Burger, New York.
The contemporaneous work of the Swiss architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, differed in its premises, if not in its outward appearance, from that of the Germans.…
“To create is divine, to reproduce is human.” Man Ray, born as Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an early 20th century avant-garde photographer who spent most of his career in Paris, France…
