ancient sculpture- main works are monumental tombs- four large bronze statues show the virtues- top of tomb is king and queen kneeling in prayer- couple appears as gisants or nude corpses- Gothic gisants shoed the rotting of flesh, usually in the stage of decomposition- Queen shown as classical Venus and the king as the dead Christ, not showing horror, but the beauty after death Debby HsiehP. 5Twentieth-Century PhotographyThe First Half Century- Struggled to find it's own identity- Political upheaval and social reform was most basic theme- Responded to three principle currents- Expressionism- Abstraction- Fantasy- color didn't have such revolutionary importanceThe School of ParisAtget- (1856-1927), French photographer, recognized as a major figure in the history of photography- Born in Bordeaux, he produced impressive photos documenting Parisian life tradespeople, architecture, shop windows, parks, cafs, and markets- His prints and negatives are displayed in the Abbott-Levey Collection in New York City's Museum of Modern ArtBrassai- did it on conditions of Paris and its habits- took series of evocative photographs of city during night- nightlife of the Parisians cafes"Bijou" of Montmatre- sense of typical aberrant as Moulin Rouge of Lautrec's- exotic characters who haunt usCartier- Bresson French photographer, known for his photojournalism- Born in Chanteloup, Cartier-Bresson became known for his ability to capture a subject's significance in a fleeting moment of form, content, and expression- He termed this the decisive moment- After spending 35 months in German prison camps during World War II, he escaped and fled to Paris, where he joined a photographic unit of the French Resistance that recorded the German occupation and retreat- In 1945 he founded Magnum Photos, the first cooperative photo agency providing photographs by top photographers working around the worldMexico- omitted the man's face to identify meaning of guesstur...
