4. Wall Street: Capital of
the 20th-century
Kenneth G. Hay
Wall Street
from Battery
Park
Wall Street
from Battery
Park
Twin Towers
from below
Twin Towers
Eiffel Tower
1910
Walter Benjamin,
photo by
Gisèle Freund
American Eagle
Battery Park
Geo-political map
Calories per person
according to need 1980s
Military
spending
as % of GDP
1980s
Acid Rain production- World particular pollution, 1980
MOMA, 11 West 53rd Street. Design by Philip L. Goodwin & Edward D. Stone
(1939): East wing (1964) centre, designed by Philip Johnson, and New West wing (left)
designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates.
Mrs Lillie P. Bliss
Mrs Cornelius J.
Sullivan
Mrs John D.
Rockerfeller Jr
Alfred H. Barrc 1929
MOMA, 11 West
53rd St, 1932
MOMA, designed by
Philip L. Goodwin &
Edward D. Stone, 1939
The Bauhaus, designed by Walter Gropius, 1927
MOMA
Catalogue
1936
Kasimir Malevich,
“Suprematist Composition”
MOMA,
catalogue, 1946
Edward Steichen
c 1955
MOMA,
Catalogue, 1955
“Sicily”,
Vito Fiorenzo
Japan,
Karl Mydans
Clement Greenberg
1939
Harold Rosenberg
1959
Jackson Pollock in
his studio, Photo for
Vogue Magazine 1941
Willem de Kooning
“Seated Woman”
c.1940
Arshile Gorky,
“The Betrothal”
1947
David Smith, “Hudson River Landscape”, 1951
Robert Motherwell- “Elegy for the Spanish Republic, 108” (1965-7)
Adolf Gottlieb
“Mariner’s Incantation”
1946
Giorgia O’Keefe
“Blue Abstraction”
1927
Barnett Newman
“The Queen of the Night”
1951
Mark Rothko
Black over Orange
1956
Caspar David Friedrich, “Monk by the Sea”, 1808-10
Jackson Pollock “One” (1948)
Hans Hoffmann
“Rising Moon”
1964
Rudolf Arnheim
1953
Erwin Panofsky
1953
Herbert Read
1940s
Henry Moore, “Reclining Figure”, 1940
Barbara Hepworth, Circular Form, 1940s
André Malraux, 1953.
“The Voices of Silence”
Charles Jencks,
Mapping Postmodernism
1980s
John Carpenter, “Escape from New York”, 1981.