1. the art of having a lofty
perspective
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2. Marcel Duchamp

3. Marcel Duchamp,
Fountain, 1917

4. Marcel Duchamp, Bottle
Rack, 1914

5. Piero Manzoni, Artist’s Shit, 1961

6. Lucas Cranach, Venus and
Cupid, 1531

7. Albrecht Durer, Drawing of
Female Nude

8. Michelangelo, Study of a Male
Nude or Ignudo, 1508

9. Pablo Picasso, Nude Under a Pine Tree, 1959

10. Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid, Yalta Conference:
Judgment of Paris

11. Mont Sainte Victoire

12. Cezanne, Mont Sainte Victoire, 1886

13. Cezanne, Mont Sainte Victoire, 1887

14. Mont Ventoux

15. Caspar David
Friedrich, Wanderer Above
a Sea Fog, 1818

16. Thomas Hill, View of the Yosemite Valley, 1897

17. Albert Bierstadt, Storm in the Mountains, 1870

18. Thomas Cole, Cabin in the
Woods, c. 1848

19. Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 1953-54

20. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona
Lisa, 1503 – 1517

21. Christo & Jeanne Claude, Wrapped Reichstag (Project for West
Berlin), 1971 – 95

22. Christo & Jeanne Claude, Scale Model, 1981

23. Christo & Jeanne
Claude, Drawing in Two
Parts, 1994

24. Andreas Gursky, Untitled XV, 2005

25. Andreas Gursky, Dortmund, 2009

26. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent, 2001

27. Thomas Struth, Ulsan 2, 2010

28. Thomas Struth, Parkview Apartments, 2007

29. Candida Hofer, Teatro La Fenice Di Venezia V, 2011

30. Robert Adams, from The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado
Front Range, 1974

31. Robert
Adams, from The
New West:
Landscapes Along
the Colorado Front
Range, 1974

32. Robert Adams,
from The New West:
Landscapes Along
the Colorado Front
Range, 1974

33. Robert Adams, from The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado
Front Range, 1974

34. Robert Adams, Oregon
Series: Turning
Back, 1999 – 2003

35. Robert Adams, Oregon Series: Turning Back, 1999 – 2003

36. Robert Adams, Oregon Series: Turning Back, 1999 – 2003

37. Robert Adams, Oregon Series: Turning Back, 1999 – 2003

38. ART21, Robert Adams

39. Before Reading:
1. Reflect (in at least ONE PAGE) on your ideas about
beauty. What is beauty? You may use outside sources
(philosophy, theology, science…) to inform your
thoughts.
Read:
• Chapter 3, “The Art of Having a Lofty Perspective”
Respond in your Journal:
1. Reflect (in at least ONE PAGE) on chapter 3, a
quote or one of the videos shown in class.

42. French Hill, Irvine, CA