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  • - 400 C.E. Ancient CulturesPrehistoric Art: Paleolithic OriginsNude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)Augustus of PrimaportaCuneiform and the Invention of WritingThe Neolithic RevolutionPainted Garden, Villa of Livia
  • Sumerian ArtHead of AugustusSculpture from the Parthenon's East PedimentAncient Greek Temples at Paestum, ItalyHellenistic GreekVictory Stele of Naram-Sin
  • Egyptian ArtAncient Near EastThe Standard of UrAra PacisArt of Akkad and UrDionysiac frieze, Villa of Mysteries
  • East and West Pediments from the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina ColosseumMaterials & TechniquesMyron's Discobolus (Discus Thrower)Exekias, Dionysos Kylix, c. 530 B.C.E. Nike of Samothrace
  • Babylonian Art - Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi The Pergamon AltarArch of TitusGreat Lyre from the Hadrian's Villa: A Virtual TourPerforated Relief of Ur-Nanshe
  • JerichoParthenon FriezeMaritime Theatre at Hadrian's Villa, TivoliThe Parthenon: MetopesParthenonAssyrian Art
  • Assyrian Human Headed Winged Lion and Bull (Lamassu)Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops's CaveÇatal HöyükStonehenge, Salisbury Plain, EnglandZiggurat of UrPair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian's Villa
  • Erechtheion: Caryatid and ColumnColumn of TrajanMedea Sarcophagus, 140 - 150 C.E.Neo-Babylonian Art: Ishtar Gate and Processional WayArt of the Persian EmpireEquestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius
  • Ludovisi Battle SarcophagusAfter Praxiteles, Venus (Roman Copy)Apollonius's Boxer at RestPortraits of the Four TetrarchsUnfinished Kudurru Ancient Egypt
  • Digging Through TimeThe Pyramid of Khafre and the Great SphinxSeated ScribeArch of ConstantinePyramid of Khufu
  • The Great Pyramids of GizaPyramid of MenkaureHouse Altar with Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Three Daughters (Amarna Period)Alexander MosaicThe Colossus of ConstantinePortrait Head of Queen Tiye
  • Thutmose's Bust of Nefertiti (Amarna Period)Laocoön and his SonsRamesses IIRosetta StoneEros Sleeping and An Old Market WomanAncient Greece
  • Geometric GreekPetraEuphronios, Attic Calyx-KraterExekias, Attic black figure amphoraPetra: Rock Cut FacadesPetra: Urban Metropolis
  • Polykleitos, DoryphorosLysippos, Farnese HerculesBarberini Faun, c. 220 B.C.E.New York KourosEtruscan ArtAncient Rome
  • Temple of PortunusVeristic PortraitRoman EmpireBuddhist ArtIntroduction to BuddhismFour Buddhas at the American Museum of Natural History
  • The Caves at AjantaDunhuang Cave-templesBodhisattvaBuddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)Japan, Muromachi to Momoyama period Negoro ware ewer

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  • 400-1300 Medieval & Byzantine ErasEarly ChristianPilgrimage RoutesChurch ArchitectureEarly MedievalChartres Cathedral (part 2)Abbaye de Fontenay
  • Byzantine ArtEarly Christian ArtPyxis of al-MughiraChartres Cathedral (part 3)Saint Trophime, ArlesFibulae
  • Royal Figures (Saljuq Period)Early Christian Art & Architecture after ConstantineAn IntroductionLast Judgment Tympanum, Cathedral of St. Lazare, AutunOverview of IslamSutton Hoo Ship Burial
  • Medieval ManuscriptsGothic ArchitectureCarolingian ArtSarcophagus in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (Rome) Virgin from GerThe Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra)
  • Chartres Cathedral (part 1)Pisa Nicola and Giovanni PisanoLindau Gospels CoverCoronation MantleSouthwell MinsterSanta Pudenziana, Rome
  • Sarcophagus of Junius BassusSalisbury CathedralIconoclasmSanta PrassedeSanta SabinaHistoriated Capitals, Church of Sant Miquel, Camarasa (Noguera)
  • Islamic Art: Early CaliphatesHagia SophiaBlanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France; Author Dictating to a ScribeIvory panel with ArchangelOttonian Santa Maria Maggiore
  • Romanesque Wise and Foolish Virgins, Sant Quirze de PedretQa'a: The Damascus RoomThe Great Mosque of CordobaAlhambraThe Bestiary
  • Birth of the Gothic: Abbot Suger and the Ambulatory at St. DenisThe Mausoleum of Galla PlacidiaThe Lindisfarne GospelsIlkhanid MihrabMedieval CaliphatesIcon of Saint George (the
  • BerlinghieriSpanish AstrolabeBayeux TapestryLater CaliphatesIcon of the Triumph of OrthodoxyPre-Columbian Cup
  • Art of the Americas

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  • 1300-1400 Proto-RenaissanceDuccio's Rucellai MadonnaCimabue, Santa Trinita MadonnaGiotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel - Part 1Madonna and ChildGiotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel - Part 2 Narrative Cycle
  • Duccio's MaestaThe Allegories and Effects of Good and Bad GovernmentSt. Francis Receiving the Stigmata Giotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, Part 3 The LamentationLorenzetti's Presentation of Jesus in the TempleGiotto's Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel - Part 4 The Last Judgment
  • Duccio's The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and AureaSimone Martini's AnnunciationAndrea Pisano's Reliefs on the Campanile in FlorenceGiotto, The Ognissanti MadonnaGiotto's The Entombment of MaryFollower of Bernardo Daddi, The Aldobrandini Triptych

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  • 1400-1500 Renaissance in Italy and the NorthBurgundyFlandersCampinFlorenceMadonna and ChildVan Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (closed)
  • OrsanmicheleVeniceBrunelleschi & Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of IsaacFra Filippo Lippi's Madonna and ChildBellini's St. FrancisMantegna
  • Van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (open)Linear Perspective: Filippo Brunelleschi's ExperimentDonatelloGiovanni Arnolfini and his WifePetrus Christus, Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446Christus’s Portrait of a Young Girl
  • How One-Point Linear Perspective WorksFra Angelico's The Annunciation (Prado)Van der Goes' The Adoration of the KingsMasaccioVan der Weyden, Deposition, c. 1435 (Prado, Madrid)Masaccio's Expulsion
  • van der Weyden's Crucifixion TriptychSaint SebastianFra Angelico's The AnnunciationVan Eyck's The Madonna in the ChurchUccello's The Battle of San RomanoFra Filippo Lippi
  • Masaccio's Holy TrinityPiero della Francesca's The Baptism of ChristCamera degli SposiBotticelli's Birth of VenusPacher, St. Wolfgang AltarpiecePiero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino
  • The Unicorn in CaptivityDonatello, Saint MarkMasaccio, Virgin and Child EnthronedDormition of the VirginFeast of HerodEarly Applications of Linear Perspective
  • Veneziano's St. Lucy AltarpieceCampin's Christ and the VirginDonatello's Madonna of the CloudsThe Last Judgment, 1446-52Brunelleschi's Old SacristyClaus Sluter and Claus de Werve, Mourners, from the Tomb of Philip the Bold
  • Donatello, Equestrian Monument of GattamelataBellini's San Giobbe AltarpieceBrunelleschi's DomeBrunelleschi's Pazzi ChapelHoly Thorn Reliquary
  • San Zaccaria AltarpieceCrucifixion with the Virgin and Saint JohnContrappostoBrunelleschi's Santo SpiritoBotticelli, PrimaveraAlberti's Sant' Andrea in Mantua
  • Martini's Architectural Veduta

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  • 1500-1600 End of the Renaissance and the ReformationAn Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: Setting the Stage (1 of 4)Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long NeckAn Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther (2 of 4)Giorgione's The Tempest, c. 1506-8Dürer's Self-portrait (1498)Pontormo's Entombment
  • Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: Varieties of Protestantism (3 of 4)David and FlorenceRaphael, Madonna of the GoldfinchAndrea del Verrocchio (with Leonardo), The Baptism of ChristThe PietàRaphael's La belle jardinière
  • Giorgione's The Adoration of the ShepherdsLeonardo, Adoration of the MagiDürer's Self-portrait (1500)Counter-ReformationHigh RenaissanceDavid
  • MichelangeloVirgin of the RocksVeniceDürer's The Large Piece of TurfBruegel's The Dutch ProverbsLeonardo
  • Rosso Fiorentino's The Dead Christ with AngelsRaphael, Marriage of the VirginTitian's Noli me TangereLast SupperDürer's PrintsParmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  • Bellini's and Titian's The Feast of the GodsMosesBronzinoMannerismMichelangelo's SlavesHolbein's The Merchant Georg Gisze
  • Northern RenaissanceBosch, The Last JudgementCelliniSchool of AthensTempiettoRaphael: Alba Madonna
  • Titian, Portrait of a Man Holbein's Christina of DenmarkLast Judgment, Sistine ChapelSistine Chapel CeilingRaphael's Portrait of Pope Julius IIArt and Science in the Renaissance
  • Saint Peter's BasilicaHolbein's Henry VIIIThe Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (Burlington House Cartoon)Gossaert's Saint Luke Painting the MadonnaTitian's Bacchus and AriadneGerard David's Virgin and Child with Angels
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder's Cupid complaining to VenusTitian's Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1516-18Correggio's Jupiter and IoTitian's Madonna of the Pesaro FamilyGalateaBronzino's Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with her son Giovanni
  • Science in the RenaissanceLucas Cranach's Judith with the Head of HolofernesAltdorfer, The Battle of IssusVeronese's The Family of Darius Before AlexanderVeronese's The Dream of Saint HelenaTitian's Venus of Urbino
  • Giorgione's Three Philosophers, c. 1506Lucas Cranach, Adam and EveVeronese's Feast in the House of LeviMona LisaMichelangelo, Laurentian LibraryCranach's The Law and Gospel
  • El Greco's Adoration of the ShepherdsTitian's Christ Crowned with ThornsCranach's Wittenberg AltarpieceHolbeinTintoretto, The Miracle of the SlaveDavid's The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor
  • Tintoretto's The Origin of the Milky WayBruegel's Tower of Babel

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  • 1600-1700 The BaroqueBerniniNarcissus at the SourcePluto and ProserpinaVermeer's The Glass of WineSan Carlo alle Quattro FontaneCaravaggio's Deposition, or Entombment
  • Caravaggio's paintings in the Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei FrancesiCaravaggio and Caravaggisti in 17th-Century EuropeRembrandt's Bathsheba at her BathPierre Le Gros the Younger's Stanislas Kostka on his DeathbedCalling of Saint MatthewItaly
  • Nicolas PoussinFlandersGuercinoDutch RepublicPeter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of LeucippusSpain Velázquez, Las Meninas
  • Hals's Malle BabbeCrucifixion of St. PeterRembrandt's Girl at a WindowRembrandt, The Three Crosses, 1653Il Gesù, RomeBernini's Saint Peter's Square
  • Andrea Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel in the church Il Gesù, 1695, Rome Bernini's Apollo and DaphneLos Borrachos or The Triumph of BacchusHals' Singing Boy with FluteArrival (or Disembarkation) of Marie de Medici at Marseilles, Medici Cycle
  • Bust of MedusaGentileschi's Self-portrait as the Allegory of PaintingEcstasy of Saint Teresavan Huysum, Vase with FlowersVelázquez, Vulcan's ForgeRubens, The Consequences of War
  • Rembrandt, Self-PortraitsPeasant Family in an InteriorBernini's Cathedra Petri (Chair of St. Peter)Supper at EmmausCarracci, Crucifixion & LamentationVelázquez's The Surrender of Breda
  • Annibale Carracci, Ceiling of the Farnese PalaceCaravaggio's Death of the VirginFranceRibera, Martyrdom of Saint PhilipSant'Andrea al Quirinale

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  • 1700-1800 Age of EnlightenmentDavid's Oath of the HoratiiRococo Fragonard's The SwingNeo-ClassicismReynolds, Lady Cockburn and Her Three Eldest SonsHogarth's A Rake's ProgressFragonard, The Meeting, 1771-73
  • The Sleep of EndymionCanova's Paolina Borghese as Venus VictoriousThomas Gainsborough's Mr. and Mrs. AndrewsBoy with a SquirrelCopley's Watson and the SharkBoucher's Venus Consoling Love
  • Vigée Le Brun's Madame PerregauxJohn Singleton CopleyBoucher's Madame de PompadourThe Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His SonsBritain and America in the Age of RevolutionPeale's Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale)
  • David's Death of MaratDavid's The Intervention of the Sabine WomenDavid's Napoleon Crossing the AlpsEmperor Napoleon In His StudyThe Tiepolo FamilyGilbert Stuart's Lansdowne Portrait

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  • 1800-1848 Industrial Revolution IVanderlyn's Ariadne Asleep on the Island of NaxosScene of the massacre at ChiosFrance: Delacroix's Liberty Leading the PeopleGoya's The Sleep of Reason Produces MonstersRomanticism in Spain Goya's Third of May, 1808
  • Friedrich's Abbey among Oak TreesThe Death of SardanapalusRomanticism in England Constable's The Hay WainFriedrich's The Lone TreeIngres's Portrait of Madame RivièreTurner's The Harbour of Dieppe
  • Romanticism in GermanyFriedrich's Sea of IceTurner's Slave ShipGros's Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in JaffaIngres' La Grand OdalisqueGoya, The Family of Charles IV
  • Géricault's Raft of the MedusaRomanticism in the United States, Cole's Expulsion from the Garden of EdenIngresRaphael and the FornarinaCole's The Oxbow Blake's The spiritual form of Nelson guiding Leviathan
  • Goya: Saturn Devouring One of His SonsFriedrich's Woman at a WindowRedgrave's The SempstressLandseer’s Windsor Castle in Modern Times Princesse de BroglieAllston's Elijah in the Desert
  • Turner's Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western RailwayFriedrich's A Walk at Dusk Géricault's Portraits of the InsaneAmerican Regionalism Erastus Salisbury Field, Portrait of a Young WomanFuseli's Titania and Bottom

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  • 1848-1907 Industrial Revolution IIBecoming ModernEarly PhotographyLouis Daguerre, Parisian Boulevard Courbet, Burial at OrnansManet's Music in the Tuileries GardensHow the Impressionists Got Their Name
  • The StonebreakersThe BatherManet: OlympiaThe Basket of ApplesBathers at AsnièresPre-Raphaelites, Rossetti
  • Manet's Émile ZolaBonheur's Plowing in the NivernaisWilliam Holman Hunt's Claudio and IsabellaKhnopff's Jeanne Kéfer Sargent's El JaleoBonheur's Sheep in the Highlands
  • Millet's L'AngelusStill-Life with Plaster CupidHaussmann the DemolisherJulia Margaret Cameron's Mrs. Herbert Duckworth The Balcony Sir John Everett Millais's Ophelia
  • Cézanne Still Life with ApplesGauguin's Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the AngelVan Gogh, Portrait of RoulinAlma-Tadema's Listening to HomerThe Argenteuil BridgeCouture's Romans of the Decadence
  • The RailwayThe Artist's StudioCaillebotte: The Floor ScrapersGustave Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy DayThe Bellelli FamilyCezanne's The Red Rock
  • Emily Mary Osborn's Nameless and FriendlessSargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley BoitBurne Jones's The Golden StairsBonjour Monsieur CourbetTimothy O’Sullivan's Ancient Ruins in the Canyon de Chelly The Red Cow
  • Potato EatersHunt's Our English Coasts (Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, RoseRealismRenoir's La LogeCassatt, In the Loge
  • Church's Niagara and Heart of the AndesManet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbeDegas: The Dance ClassCassatt's Little Girl in a Blue ArmchairPlum BrandyGarnier, Paris Opera
  • Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892Monet: Gare St. LazareWhistler, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White GirlYoung Woman Powdering HerselfNevermore
  • The PeredvizhnikiManet's In the ConservatoryMorisot: The Mother and Sister of the ArtistThe LogeRepin's Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk GuberniaCarpeaux's Dance
  • Jean-François Millet (French), The Gleaners, 1857Cassatt's Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a LogeTurning Road at MontgeroultMonet's Cliff Walk at PourvilleRenoir's Moulin de la GaletteCorner of a Café-Concert
  • Man at his BathVan Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul GauguinFord Madox Brown's WorkLane's Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, MaineImpressionismBurne-Jones's Hope
  • Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling RocketRouen Cathedral SeriesA Bar at the Folies-BergèreHunt's The Awakening ConscienceSir John Everett Millais's Christ in the House of His ParentsEva Gonzàles's A Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens
  • Leighton's An Athlete Wrestling with a PythonDegas's At the Races in the CountrysideBathers LondonMonet's PoplarsRenoir's The Grands BoulevardsPost-Impressionism Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884
  • Water LiliesToulouse-Lautrec's At the Moulin RougeCassatt, Breakfast in BedRobert Mills and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Washington MonumentPegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858Gaudí, Sagrada Família
  • Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters</em>Degas's Visit to a MuseumGustav Klimt's Beethoven FriezeJohn Roddam Spencer Stanhope's Thoughts of the PastGustav Klimt's The KissKlimt's Death and Life
  • Rodin's The Gates of HellBöcklin's Self-Portrait with Death Playing the FiddleLeutze's Washington Crossing the DelawareKing Cophetua and the Beggar MaidRenoir's The Large BathersUlysses S. Grant Memorial
  • Cezanne's The Large BathersMillais's Marianavan Gogh's The BedroomAmerican Art after the Civil WarKhnopff's I Lock the Door Upon Myself, 1891America in the Gilded Age, Sargent's Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)
  • Stuck's The SinTissot's London Visitors, 1874Cassatt's The Child's BathMillais: The Vale of RestMunch's The StormVan Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
  • Wallis's ChattertonEakins' The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt In A Single Scull)All Saints, Margaret StreetWilliam Morris and Philip Webb, Red HouseEastman Johnson, A Ride for Liberty -- The Fugitive SlavesHomer's The Life Line
  • Homer's The Fog Warning

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  • 1907-1960 Age of Global ConflictIn Advance of the Broken ArmMatisse's Bonheur de vivrePollock's Painting TechniquesThe Impact of Abstract ExpressionismExpressionism
  • Duchamp's FountainMatisse's Luxe, calme et voluptéGiacometti's The Palace at 4amPicasso: Early WorkUmbo (Otto Umbehr), The Roving Reporter, 1926Cubism
  • Gertrude SteinDance IKandinsky's Composition VIIWright's Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumMarcel Duchamp's Boite-en-valisePollock's One: Number 31, 1950
  • Matisse The Red StudioThe Piano LessonJean Arp, Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance)Giacometti's City SquareLes Demoiselles d'AvignonItalian Futurism
  • DadaBraque: The PortugueseBoccioni, Unique FormsJawlensky's Young Girl in a Flowered HatBunshaft's Lever HouseMagritte's The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), 1921
  • Three Futurists Artwork by Balla, Severini and BoccioniSchwitters' Merzbild 32A, The Cherry PictureRepresentation & Abstraction: Looking at Millais and Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51Barnett NewmanMark RothkoSuprematism
  • August Sander, PortraitsRené Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933Mondrian, Broadway Boogie-WoogieHannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of GermanySchiele's Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait)The Viaduct at L'Estaque
  • The Reservoir, Horta de EbroGuitarCartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare St. LazareDe StijlSelf-Portrait Willem de Kooning
  • Klee's Twittering MachineArchitecture Mies van der Rohe's Seagram BuildingDali, Metamorphosis of NarcissusGuernicaSchool of Paris, Modigliani's Young Woman in a ShirtNeue Sachlichkeit Otto Dix's Portrait of Sylvia von Harden
  • Feininger's CathedralMoholy-Nagy's Composition A.XXSchiele's HermitsRobert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 57Barnett Newman's Painting TechniqueMark Rothko's Painting Technique
  • László Moholy-Nagy, Climbing the MastDali's The Persistence of MemoryFranz Kline's Painting TechniqueSurrealismArt in Nazi GermanyAshcan School
  • American Regionalism - Grant Wood's American GothicAmerican Abstraction-O'Keeffe's The Lawrence TreeAmerican Realism, Hopper's NighthawksFrida Kahlo, Frieda and Diego RiveraWilfredo Lam's The Jungle
  • NY School, Jasper Johns' FlagRauschenberg's BedAd Reinhardt, Abstract PaintingPhotographyBrancusi's Bird in SpaceRaymond Duchamp-Villon's Horse
  • Gilbert's Woolworth Building

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  • 1960- Age of Post-ColonialismPhotography Diane ArbusFrancis Bacon, Triptych - August 1972Richard Serra's Torqued EllipsesCampbell's Soup CansLouise Bourgeois's Cumul I
  • Claes OldenburgConceptual Art Acconci's Following PieceFat ChairLucian Freud, Standing by the Rags, 1988-89Dan Flavin, Untitled (To Donna) IIPop Art
  • Cindy ShermanUntitled (Rope Piece)Assemblage Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Useful Art #5: The Western Hotel, 1992 William EgglestonSherrie LevineTable with Accumulator
  • Gerhard Richter, Uncle RudiRoy Lichtenstein's Girl with ballBernd and Hilla BecherMinimalism Judd's UntitledGerhard Richter, BettyGerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings (1-6)
  • Process Art Eva HesseLichtenstein's Rouen Cathedral Set VPerformance Art: An IntroductionJoseph Beuys, Feet WashingRobert Morris, Untitled (L Beams)
  • Mary Kelly's Postpartum DocumentMarina Abramović, The Artist is PresentJudy Chicago's Pasadena Lifesaver #4 & Lynda Benglis's Omega Gerhard Richter, SeptemberJackie Winsor's #1 Rope
  • Earth Art Smithson's Spiral JettyJohn Baldessari’s I Will Not Make Any More Boring ArtNauman's The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic TruthsPostmodernism Colescott's Beauty is in the Eye of the BeholderHirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone LivingArt in the 21st Century
  • Ai Weiwei's So Sorry and the Politics of Dissent

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