Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2019 Being human: The figure in art

Courting Controversy: The figure and its audiences Dr Mikala Tai 25/26 September 2019

Slide list

1. Portrait 2. Picasso’s on display at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofia. 3. Picasso, Guernica, 1937. 4. Guernica, 1937. 5. Picasso, Dream and Lie of Franco, 1937. 6. Picasso, Guernica, 1937. 7. Dora Maar, Photo report of the evolution of ‘Guernica’, May – June 1937, Paris 8. Dora Maar, Photo report of the evolution of ‘Guernica’, May – June 1937, Paris 9. Picasso’s Guernica on display in 1937 in the Spanish Pavilion at the World Fair in Paris. 10. Picasso’s Guernica on display in 1937 in the Spanish Pavilion at the World Fair in Paris. 11. Postcard of Guernica, mailed in 1937 to MoMA Director Alfred Barr and his wife by Denise Loeb © 2017. Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence. 12. 17th February 1939: Artists in 's Bouverie Street painting a hoarding urging people to support relief action during the Spanish Civil War. 13. Picasso, Study for Guernica, 2 May 1937 14. The Opening at London’s Whitechapel in 1939. 15. Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in front of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) at The Museum of Modern Art, 1962 Photographic Archive. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photo: Tony Vaccaro 16. From left: Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline Roque, and Margaret Scolari Barr at Picasso’s home, “La Californie,” in Cannes, France, July 1956. Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers, 12.II.M. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photo: James Thrall Soby 17. Alfred Barr (1902-1981), Jr. Cubism and Abstract Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1936. 18. Clockwise from top left: Reinstalling Guernica in 1964. From left: Dorothy Miller, conservation assistant, Tosca Zagni, Jean Volkmer, and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Conservation files, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Painting conservator Jean Volkmer restretching Picasso’s Guernica to its new stretcher, The Museum of Modern Art, 1964. Conservation files, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Conservators and art handlers preparing to attach Picasso’s Guernica to its new stretcher, The Museum of Modern Art, 1964. Conservation files, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. All photos: Nancy Astor 19. Members of the Art Workers Coalition protest in front of Guernica in 1970 holding up images of women and children massacred by American troops in Vietnam. 20. A poster, ‘Stop the War in Vietnam Now!’ (c. 1970 offset print), features a detail from Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica,’ a 1937 painting that protested the Spanish Civil War.

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21. Newspaper coverage of Tony Shafrazi’s act in 1974 22. Clockwise from top left: Museum staff and Spanish officials before Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) prior to its shipment to Spain, September 8, 1981. Department of Public Information Records, II.B. 1638. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photo: Leonardo LeGrand; Pablo Picasso’s Guernica being carried down main stairs from gallery on September 8, 1981. Department of Public Information Records, II.B. 1638. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photo: Leonardo LeGrand; Museum staff packing Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) for shipment to Spain, September 8, 1981.Department of Public Information Records, II.B. 1638. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photo: Mali Olatunji 23. Nelson A. Rockefeller in the late 1950s, when he first sought the governorship of New York. 24. Jacqueline de la Baume-Dürrbach after Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1955. Wool tapestry with cotton warp, 304.8 x 670.6cm. 25. Jacqueline de la Baume-Dürrbach 26. Picasso, Guernica, 1937 and Jacqueline de la Baume-Dürrbach after Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1955. Wool tapestry with cotton warp, 304.8 x 670.6cm. 27. Musee National d’Art Occidental, Tokyo 28. UN Building NYC 29. “Tapestry After Guernica with press area, Security Council corridor, United Nations Headquarters New York.” 2nd September 2015. 30. Screenshot of Simon Schama’s show, Power of Art. 31. Unknown artist’s response to the UN covering of the Guernica Tapestry. 32. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, center, Japanese Ambassador Koro Bessho, left, and Korean Ambassador Tae-yul Cho speak to reporters before a Security Council meeting on the situation in North Korea, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) 33. Pity and Terror: Picasso’s Path to Guernica, Reina Sofia, 2017 34. Goshka Macuga, The Nature of the Beast, 2009. Installed at London’s . 35. Prince William in front of Goshka Macuga, The Nature of the Beast, 2009 at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. 36. Goshka Macuga, On the Nature of the Beast, 2010. Photorealist Jacquard-woven tapestry, 290 x 560cm. Reproduced with permission from the artist. 37. Goshka Macuga, The Nature of the Beast, 2013. Installed at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 38. Lluis Barba, Guernica, 2013 39. Photo by C. Elle, via Flickr. 40. Unknown Protest Image 41. Unknown Protest Image 42. Unknown Protest Image 43. Sampson Wong photograph of protests in HK marking 20 Years since the handover, July 1, 2017.

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