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 "Classical"
Music |
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Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900
- December 2, 1990) |
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Appalachian
Spring (1943-1944) [25 min. 21 sec.] |
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read
about the ballet for which Copland composed this music |
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John Cage (September 5, 1912
- August 12, 1992) |
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"A
Room, for piano" (1943) [01 min. 54 sec.] |
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Benjamin
Britten
(November 22, 1913 - December 4, 1976) |
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"Requiem
aeternam" [09 min. 27 sec.], from War
Requiem (1962) |
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Karlheinz Stockhausen (August 22 1928
- ) |
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selection
from "Mikrophonie I" (1965) [03 min. 47 sec.] |
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Krzysztof Penderecki (November 23,
1933
- ) |
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"Quartetto
per archi No. 2" [The Tale Quartet] (1968) [10 min. 15 sec.] |
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Steve Reich (born Stephen Michael
Reich, October 3, 1936 - ) |
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Three
Tales: Hindenburg + Bikini + Dolly (2003) {"signposts from
the early, middle and late parts of the (twentieth) century that would
be emblematic of the period and its technology"} |
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Hindenburg: "I
Couldn't Understand It" [5 min. 11 sec.] -- the first major
disaster captured on film and the end of a failed technology: the German
airship exploded and crashed in New Jersey in 1937 |
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Bikini
[9 min. 10. sec.]: "In the Air - 3" [1 min. 58 sec.] + "The Atoll- 3" [2
min. 48 sec.] + "On the Ships - 3" [2 min. 16 sec.] + "Coda" [2 min. 8
sec.] -- the tests of the atom bomb at Bikini between 1946 and 1952
signaled the wnd of World War II and the start of the Cold War -- and brought
together the most ultra-sophisticated hi-tech known at the time and some
of the least technological human life on the face of the Earth, the Bikini
people of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific |
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Dolly: "Robots/Cyborgs/Immortality"
[10 min. 33 sec.] -- the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1997 grew
out of the technology of medicine and biology |
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Philip Glass (January 31, 1937
- ) |
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selection
from "Einstein on the Beach" (1976) [06 min. 33 sec.] |
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| Pictures
of Paintings from the World War II Cultural Matrix |
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Socialist Realism |
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Yu. P. Kugach et al. |
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"To Great Stalin
-- Glory!" (1948) |
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A. M. Yar-Kravchenko |
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"Gorky Reading
his Tale 'Death and the Maiden' to Stalin, Voroshilov & Molotov"
(1949) |
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B. N. Karpov et al. |
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"I.V. Stalin"
(1949) |
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Stuart Davis
(December 7, 1894 - June 24, 1964) |
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"Visa"
(1951) |
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"Blips
& Ifs" (1963-1964) |
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Pop
Art |
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Richard Hamilton
(February 24, 1922 -) |
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"Just
what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?"
(1956) |
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"Interior"
(1964) |
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Andy
Warhol
(August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) |
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"Gold
Marilyn Monroe" (1962) |
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"Orange
Disaster #5" (1963) |
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"Self-Portrait"
-- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1986) |
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"Self-Portrait"
-- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1986) |
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Willem de Kooning
(April 24, 1904 - March 19, 1997) |
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"Woman
V" (1952-1953) |
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"Composition"
(1955) |
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Andrew Newell
Wyeth
(July 12, 1917 -) |
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"Christina's
World" (1948) |
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Betye Saar (July 30, 1926 -
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"The Liberation
of Aunt Jemima" (1972) |
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Pegge Hopper
(1936 -) |
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"Looking
Toward Kahaluu" (1990) |
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"Luana"
(1999) |
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Barbara
Kruger
(1945 -) |
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Untitled
exhibition piece (19??) |
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"Untitled (Allegiance)"
(19??) |
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"Untitled (Be)"
(19??) |
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"Untitled (Get
Out)" (19??) |
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"Untitled (How
dare you not be me?)" (19??) |
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"Untitled (Who
do you think you are?)" (19??) |
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"Untitled (Not
Perfect)" (1980) |
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"Untitled (You
Construct Intricate Rituals)" (1981) |
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"Untitled (Your
body is a battleground)" (1989) |
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"Untitled (Look
like us)" (1996) |
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"Untitled (It's
a small world, but not if you have to clean it)" (1999) |
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Dimitris Xonoglou (1949 -) |
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"Faces" (Greece,
1996) |
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Keith
Haring
(May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990) -- read Keith Haring quotes |
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"Two
Green Creatures" (date unknown) |
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"Untitled"
(1980) |
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"Untitled"
(1981) |
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"Untitled"
(1982) |
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"Drawing
in New York City subway" (1983) |
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"Untitled"
(1984) |
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"Untitled"
(1985) |
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"69"
(1986) |
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["Untitled aluminum sculpture"
(1985) -- see below under "Sculptures"] |
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"Self
Portraint with Juan" (1988) |
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"Untitled"
(1989) |
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"Learning
Through Art" (1990) |
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| Pictures
of Sculptures from the World War II Cultural Matrix |
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Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898
- November 11, 1976) |
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"les renforts"
(1965) |
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Marisol (Escobar)
(May 22, 1930 - ) |
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"The
Family" (1962) |
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"Women
and Dog" (1964) |
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Magdalena Abakanowicz (June 20, 1930
- ) |
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"Backs"
(detail of installation, around 1997) |
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Christo (June 13, 1935 - ) |
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"Over
The River," Arkansas River, Colorado (1993) |
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"Wrapped
Trees," Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland (1998) |
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Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938
- July 20, 1973) |
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"Spiral
Jetty" (1970) |
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Keith
Haring
(May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990) |
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"Untitled
aluminum sculpture" (1985) |
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Cosmin Paulescu (1970-) |
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"Thief of Ground"
(Romania, 1997) |
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| Political
and Social Documents from the World War II Cultural Matrix |
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Miscellaneous |
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
(July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) |
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Brave
New World Revisited (1958) |
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Jean-Paul Sartre
(June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) |
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"Existentialism"
(1946) |
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Voices
of the Catholic Church on BioEthics (1980, 1987) |
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Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech
Republic (October 5, 1936 - ) |
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"The Need for
Transcendence in the Postmodern World" (July 4, 1994) |
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David Rieff (September 28, 1952
-) |
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"Slaughter in
Yugoslavia" (1995) |
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Philip Burnett Franklin Agee
(July 19, 1935 - ) |
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"USA & International
Terrorism" (September 24, 2001) |
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Cold
War: 1946-1990 |
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Margaret Meador |
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The
Cold War Cultural Matrix, 1946-1990 -- Contrariety: A War of Mirrors
(2005) |
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The
Cold War Cultural Matrix in the United States of America: Finding an Enemy
for the Cold War (2005) |
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Sir Winston
Leonard Spencer Churchill (November 30, 1874 - January 24,
1965) |
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"The
Sinews of Peace" (March 5, 1946) -- "an
iron curtain has descended across the Continent" |
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George Kennan
(February 16, 1904 - March 17, 2005!) |
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"Sources
of Soviet Conduct" (1947) |
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Joseph McCarthy (November 14, 1908
- May 2, 1957) |
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"Lincoln
Day Address" (February 20, 1950) |
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Margaret Chase Smith (December 14,
1897
- May 29, 1995) |
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"Declaration
of Conscience" (June 2, 1950) |
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John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917
- November 22, 1963) |
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"Inaugural
Address" (Friday,
January 20, 1961) |
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"Preparing
for Doomsday" (September 7, 1961) |
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"Operation
Mongoose: The Cuba Project" (February 20, 1962) |
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Philip Burnett Franklin Agee
(July 19, 1935 - ) |
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Selections
from CIA Diary: Inside the Company (1975) |
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John J. Mearsheimer (December 1947
- ) |
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"Why We Will
Soon Miss The Cold War" (August 1990) |
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Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911
- June 5, 2004) |
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"Brotherhood
of Man" Speech (1990) |
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Mikhail Gorbachev (March 2, 1931
-) |
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"Fulton Speech"
(1992) |
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William Blum (1933 -) |
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Selection
from Killing Hope -- on Chile, 1964-1973 (1995) |
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Alan Filreis () |
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"Cultural
aspects of atomic anxiety" (1999) |
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The School of the Americas |
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Interview
on October 19, 1999, with Fr. Roy Bourgeois about
"The School of the Americas and U.S.Tax-Supported Terror in Latin America" |
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| Poetry
from the World War II Cultural Matrix |
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William Carlos Williams (September
17, 1883 - March 4, 1963) |
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"Landscape
With The Fall Of Icarus" (1962) |
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Langston
Hughes
(February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) |
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"Dream
Boogie" from Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) |
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"Harlem"
from
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) |
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"Night
Funeral in Harlem" from Montage of a Dream Deferred
(1951) |
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Other
Poems |
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Pablo
Neruda
(July 12, 1904 - September 23, 1973); Nobel
Prize, 1971 |
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"United
Fruit Co." (1950) |
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"Lost
in the Forest" (1959) |
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"Sonnet
11: I Crave Your Mouth" (1960) |
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Richard Eberhart (April 5, 1904
- June 12, 2005!) |
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"The Fury
of Aerial Bombardment" (1947) |
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John Gillespie McGee, Jr. (1922-1941) |
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"High Flight"
(1941) |
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Denise Levertov (October 24, 1923
- December 30, 1997) |
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"Tenebrae"
(1967) |
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Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926
- April 5, 1997) |
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"Sunflower
Sutra" (1955) |
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Peter Orlovsky (July 8, 1933
- ) |
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Four
Poems (1957-1958) |
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Yevgeny
Yevtushenko
(July 18, 1933 -) |
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"Babi
Yar" (1961) |
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"Epistle
To Neruda" (1973) |
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"Memento"
(1974) |
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Carolyn Louise Forché
(April 28, 1950 - ) |
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"Because
One is Always Forgotten"
(1981) |
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Naomi Shihab Nye (1952-) |
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selection
from
Different Ways to Pray (1980) |
Europe
at the Start of the Cold War (1949)
