SOCIAL IMPACTORS: Mechanization of Society; Rising standard and pace of living; Darwin's Origin of Species (evolution), 1859 (1871 cartoon); pre-historic paintings at Altamira discovered 1879; Freud active - his Interpretation of Dreams (repressed sexuality and brutish aggression), 1900

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Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863, oil, 4'3", Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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Paul Cézanne, Five Bathers, 1877-8, oil, 18", Musée Picasso, Paris

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George Seurat, Un Dimanche d'été sur l'Ile de la Grande Jatte, oil, 1884-6, 6'9", Art Institute of Chicago

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*Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880-1920, Bronze, 251" (20'8"), Musée Rodin, Paris

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Gustave Eiffel, The Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1887-9, 974' tall

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Louis Sullivan, Wainright Building, St Louis, Missouri, 1890 (10 storeys)

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: Women's Suffrage 1903; More Freud 1904; Venus of Willendorf discovered 1908; cheap cars 1908; mass communications begin; cure for syphilis 1909

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*Pablo Picasso, La Vie, 1903, oil, 6'5, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

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Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe), 1905, oil & tempera, 16", National Museum of Art, Copenhagen

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, Mother and Child, 1906, 31", Private Collection, Bremen

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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, oil 8', Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Georges Braque, Houses at L'Estaque, 1908, oil, 28", Museum of Art, Berne

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Georges Braque, The Portuguese, 1911, oil, 45", Kunstmuseum, Basel (representing work c.1908)

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*Peter Behrens, The AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, 1908-1909

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: World War I (aircraft & bombs) 1914-1918; Einstein's Theory of Relativity published 1915; birth control clinics 1916; Russian Revolution 1917; English women vote 1918; League of Nations (for peace), 1919

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*Vassily Kandinsky, Composition IV, 1911, oil 5'2, Kunstammlung Nordrhein Westfallen, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Kasimir Malevich, Black Square on White Ground, c.1913, oil, 42", State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

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Giorgio de Chirico, Nostalgia of the Infinite, 1913, oil, 4'5", Collection of Modern Art, New York

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Jacob Epstein, The Rock Drill, 1913-14, bronze, present state 28", Tate Gallery, London (display caption)

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Constantin Brancusi, Sculpture for the Blind, 1916?, marble, 6", Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Jean Arp, Collage with Squares arranged according to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17, paper collage, 19", Museum of Modern Art, New York

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*Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, found porcelain object, 24", Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Young Man Seated, 1918, bronze, 41", Stadt Kunstmuseum, Duisburg

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Kasimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White, c.1918, oil, 31", Museum of Modern Art, New York

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: Cures for tuberculosis by Calmette & Guerin 1921, diabetes by Banting and Best 1922 and gonnorhea by Fleming 1928; USSR formed 1922; cheap radios c.1925; Pavlov's conditioned reflexes, 1927

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Kurt Schwitters, Merz 83 (Drawing F), 1920, refuse collage, 5 3/4", Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1921, bronze, 54", Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

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Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, 1921, oil, 4'8", Art Institute of Chicago

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Gerrit Rietveld, Schröder House, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1924

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*Walter Gropius, The Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 1925-6

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Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1925, oil, 19", Krefeld Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Germany

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Vassily Kandinsky, Red, Yellow, Blue, 1925, 50", Nina Kandinsky Collection

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Henri Laurens, Woman with her arm lifted, 1928, stone, 24", Kunstmuseum, Berne

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René Magritte, The Treason of Images, 1928-9, Oil, 23", LA County Mus of Art

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Marcel Breuer, Vasily Chair, 1928, tubular steel & canvas, ubiquitous

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: Rise of Nazi Party c.1930 onwards; Cheap television c.1936; Maynard Keynes wealth-creating consumer-economics theory published 1936; Spanish Civil War 1936-1939; World War II 1939-1944

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Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman, 1930-31, painted iron, springs & colanders, 39", Musée Picasso, Paris

John Heartfield, A Pan-German, 2 November 1933, Photo Akademie der Künste zu Berlin

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Barbara Hepworth, Three Forms, 1935, white marble, 7", Tate, London (display caption)

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Meret Oppenheim, Object (Luncheon in Fur), 1936, fur-covered cup & saucer, 3" tall, Metropolitan Museum, New York

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Salvador Dalí, Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937, oil, 20", Tate, London (display text)

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*Picasso, Guernica, 1937, 11'5", Prado, Madrid

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Hans (Jean) Arp, Pre-Adamic Torso, 1938, limestone, 19", Offentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle, Switzerland

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Henry Moore, Reclining Woman, 1939, green Hornton stone, 2'11", Tate, London

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: World War II continues, 1939-1944; Prehistoric paintings discovered at Lascaux 1940; Coventry cathedral bombed 1942; holocaust atrocities made public 1944; a-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945; Diary of Anne Frank published 1947; Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, 1949

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*Arshile Gorky, Garden in Sochi, c.1943, oil, 31", Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Graham Sutherland, Thorn Tree, 1945-46, oil, 4'2", British Council Collection, London

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Alberto Giacometti, Man Pointing, 1947, bronz, 5'9", Tate, London

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Le Corbusier, Unité d'Habitation, Marseilles, France, 1947-52

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: Rebuilding and outfitting Coventry cathedral continues; Discovery of DNA 1953; Polio vaccine 1954; Civil Rights movements c.1955; CND founded 1958;

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Le Corbusier, Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1950-55

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Henri Matisse, The Snail, 1953, gouache & collage, 9'5", Tate, London (display text)

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Francis Bacon, Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef, 1954, Oil, 4'3", Art Institute of Chicago

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Elizabeth Frink, Winged Figure, 1959, bronze, 2' tall, private collection

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Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, 1956 (skip forward to next chapter), paper collage, 10" tall, Collection Kunstalle Tübingen, Sammlung Zundel, Germany

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: Economic boom; youth protests against racism (Sharpville Massacre 1960; Mandela jailed 1964), bomb tests, industrial and domestic pollution, & Vietnam War; Yuri Gagarin 1st Man in space 1961; Coventry's new cathedral completed 1962; "Silent Spring" 1962; President Kennedy assassinated 1963; "Honest to God" 1963; 1st heart transplant 1967; Torrey Canyon oil disaster 1967; abortion and homosexuality legalized in Britain; "The Double Helix" published 1968; Martin Luther King assassinated 1968; Woodstock 1969; Apollo 11 moon landing.

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David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967, acrylic, 8', Tate, London

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland, 1968

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Gilbert and George, Underneath the Arches (The Singing Sculpture), 1970 (first performance 1969), mixed media, life sized, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London

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The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1966

Yes, album covers by Roger Dean, 1960s and 1970s

Cream, Disreali Gears, album cover by Martin Sharp, 1967

More 1960s Psychedelic album covers (slow loading - lots of graphics)

Jimi Hendrix Experience, London, 1967

Santana, Abraxas, 1970 (stretching a point, but artistically interesting and musically significant!)

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Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Aktion "o.T.", 1965, Photographic performance, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

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The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks, greatest hits type album for 1964-71

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: Watergate 1972-4; Germaine Greer's Female Eunuch published 1970; Margaret Thatcher Conservative Leader 1975 (Prime Minister 1979); Raid on Entebbe 1976; Death of Steve Biko 1977; AIDS 1977 onwards; Macs and PCs c.1978 onwards

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*Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, The Pompidou Center, 1971-77, Paris

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Joseph Beuys, Arena - where I would have got if I had been intelligent!, 1970-2, installation, Dia Center for the Arts, New York

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James Turrell, Wedgework IV, installation, Hayward Gall, London, April-June, 1993 (representing work of 1970s now dismantled)

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Carl André, Equivalent VIII, 1978, bricks, 5" × 27" × 90", Tate, London

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: Reagan-Thatcher special relationship 1980 onwards; expendable and disposable populations 1980s; ostrich populations; Bhopal, Chernobyl and Exxon Valdez disasters 1984, 1986, 1989; Challenger disaster 1987; Hole in ozone layer 1985; Freedom of speech threatened worldwide: Rainbow Warrior 1985, Tiananmen Square 1989, Satanic Verses 1989

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Mario Botta, Mediathèque, Villeurbane, Lyons, France, 1984-88

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*Jean Rustin, Woman Putting her hand in a man's mouth, 1989, oil, 4'3", Jean Rustin Fdation, Antwerp, Belgium

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James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associattes, Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany, completed 1984

SOCIAL IMPACTORS: Worldwide Web becomes ubiquitous c.1998; NEW: WWW predicted to become self-aware, December 2000; nano-machines from DNA, August 2000; calls to circumvent international denial of accelerating global disaster; rain forests cease self-renewal 1998; Polar ice-caps melting, August 2000; continuing oil disasters; continued nuclear threat; continued protest; irresponsible city projects, December 2000

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Damien Hirst, The Impossibility of Death in the mind of someone living, 1991, dead tiger-shark in formaldehyde, 7 × 17 × 7', Saatchi Collection, London

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Alessandro Mendini & others, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands, 1994

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Orlan, Seventh Operation/Surgical Performance, 21 November 1993, New York

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Cindy Jackson, human Barbie doll Cindy Jackson Website