Images of Works Cited in Who Says That’s Art?

Works are listed in the order in which they are cited in the text. Examples cited in notes are arranged here as if they were part of the relevant section of text.

Introduction: If Art Can Be Anything, Then It Is Nothing

Ellsworth Kelly, Horizontal Curve II (no image available) – similar work
Joana Vasconcelos, Marilyn
Vincent van Gogh, Irises
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus
Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes
Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles
Orlan, surgical performances
Andres Serrano, Piss Christ
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square
Piero Manzoni, Merda d’artista
Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night
Michelangelo, Pietà
Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain

Chapter 1: What Exactly Are We Talking About?

Michelangelo, David
Antoine Watteau, Shop Sign of Gersaint
Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna and the Elders, Judith Beheading Holofernes
Anna Hyatt Huntington, Joan of Arc
Mary Cassatt, depictions of mothers and children
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Baule “spirit figures”

Chapter 2: What Qualities Make a Work “Art”? And How and Why Do We Respond?

Paint-by-numbers landscape
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
Kamisaka Sekka, Snow in the Countryside (detail)
John Frederick Kensett, Lake George
Easter Island Ancestor Figure
Peter Cozzolino, The Young David
Albrecht Dürer, St. Jerome in His Study
Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding Portrait [See “Revisiting Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini ‘Wedding’ Portrait.”]
Cecilia Beaux, Ernesta (Child with Nurse)
Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Peter Cozzolino, The Young David
Michelangelo, David [detail]
Donatello, David [side view]
David and Goliath (medieval manuscript illumination)
Stephen Gjertson, The Recorder Lesson
Michelangelo, Pietà [detail]
Earlier Pietà sculptures: Roettgen Pietà, Bohemian Pietà, Master of the Rimini Crucifixion Pietà
Peter Cozzolino, The Young David
David Smith, Sentinel [more]
George Segal, Girl on a Chair
Duane Hanson, Bodybuilder
Two Reindeer (Font-de-Gaume cave), rendering by Henri Breuil
Mu Ch’i Fa-Ch’ang, Six Persimmons
Michelangelo, David
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers
Unknown artist, Scenes from the Life of the Historical Buddha
Giotto, Scenes from the Life of Christ, Scrovegni Chapel
Sally James Farnham, The Frieze of Discoverers
Michelangelo, Pietà
Francisco Goya, Third of May
Pieter Paul Rubens, Massacre of the Innocents
Brice Marden, Cold Mountain Series [more]
Jeff Koons, Puppy
James Turrell, Roden Crater Project [more]
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain

Chapter 3: What’s Wrong with “Abstract Art”?

New Yorker cartoon: “It’s meaningless, lady, believe me—I painted it.”
Taijitu (yin-and-yang symbol)
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square (his first Suprematist painting; ignore crackle, due to aging); later Black Square
Piet Mondrian, Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow
Bathroom design [more] and high-fashion clothing inspired by Mondrian
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square [on a white field]
Wassily Kandinsky, Composition
Agnes Martin, paintings
Dan Flavin, installations of industrial fluorescent lights
Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock, paintings
Mark Rothko, paintings
Robert Motherwell, paintings
Kamisaka Sekka, Snow in the Countryside (detail)
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, paintings
Adolph Gottlieb, paintings
Clyfford Still, paintings
Dorothea Rockburne, work featured at Morgan Library

Chapter 4: Anti-Art Is Not Art

Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes, Campbell’s Soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, celebrity images
Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick, Spoonbridge and Cherry, Clothespin
Roy Lichtenstein, paintings
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, Mao series
Diego Velázquez, portrait of court dwarf [more]
Thomas Eakins, The Writing Master
Andy Warhol, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century
Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters
Allan Kaprow, “Happening”
George Segal, The Gas Station
George Segal, Abraham and Isaac: In Memory of May 4, 1970, Kent State University
George Segal, Gay Liberation, Depression Bread Line
Duane Hanson, Tourists, Young Shopper, and Man on Mower
Madame Tussauds waxworks [more]
Robert Rauschenberg, Bed
Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram
Robert Rauschenberg, Erased DeKooning Drawing (see also “Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing” [short video], and these videos on YouTube: “Robert Rauschenberg – Erased De Kooning” and “painters Painting rauschenburg [sic]”)
Jasper Johns, Coat Hanger II, Flashlight
Jasper Johns, Flag
Jasper Johns, Green Target, Target with Four Faces
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel
Tristan Perich, Microtonal Wall
Jana Winderen, Ultrafield
Carl Andre, Equivalent VIII
Donald Judd, Untitled (1971)
Richard Serra, One Ton Prop (House of Cards), Torqued Ellipse, Delineator
Jackson Pollock, “drip paintings“
Allan Kaprow, Yard
Michelangelo, Pietà
Sol LeWitt, Straight Lines in Four Directions Superimposed [see wall, not floor piece]
Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (Etymological)
Chris Burden, Shoot, Trans-Fixed
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party, place setting for Queen Hatshepsut
The Dinner Party, place setting for Emily Dickinson
The Dinner Party, place setting for Saint Bridget
The Dinner Party, place setting for Artemesia Gentileschi
Anna Hyatt [Huntington], Joan of Arc
Artemesia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait, Judith Slaying Holofernes
Mary Cassatt, After the Bath
Damien Hirst, “pill cabinet” [more (click on thumbnails)]
Damien Hirst, paintings
Andrew Wyeth, Chambered Nautilus
Frank Holl, The Convalescent

Chapter 5: Do Photography, Video, and Film All Qualify as “Art”?

Leonardo da Vinci, Head of the Virgin
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Easter Sunday in Harlem
Yousuf Karsh, Winston Churchill
Ansel Adams, images of the American West
Joseph Rosenthal, Flag-Raising at Iwo Jima
Chris Jordan, photographs
Yousuf Karsh, Winston Churchill
Thomas Eakins, The Writing Master
Frederic Church, Heart of the Andes
Albert Bierstadt, A Storm in the Rocky Mountains–Mount Rosalie
Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
Ansel Adams, Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Alaska
Joseph Rosenthal, Flag-Raising at Iwo Jima
Barbara Kruger, Your Body Is a Battleground
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #6, history portraits, “headshots” series
Bruce Nauman, Clown Torture
Bruce Nauman, Days/Giorni
Bill Viola, The Passions
Peter Paul Rubens, paintings [more]
Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), In front of a nightclub
Hokusai, Ejiri in Suruga Province

Chapter 6: Critics and Curators—Informed Guides or Intellectual Bullies?

Jackson Pollock, Number One
Andrew Wyeth, paintings
William Bouguereau, A Soul Brought to Heaven
Andrew Wyeth, Christina Olson, Christina’s World
“New York School,” paintings [more]
Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes
Giorgione, La Tempesta
Kazimir Malevich, White Square on White
Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid [more]
Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram
William Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat
Robert Rauschenberg, Bed
Cy Twombly, Untitled
Claes Oldenburg, sculptures
Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (orange carpet)
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin

Chapter 7: What Do Cognitive Science and Evolution Tell Us about Art?

Piet Mondrian, abstract paintings
Marcel Duchamp, “readymades“
Andy Warhol, Pop Art
Ancient Egyptian art
16th-century Chinese painting
19th-century Impressionism
Marcel Duchamp, “readymades,” L.H.O.O.Q.
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa
René Magritte, Not to Be Reproduced
Andy Warhol, Thirty Are Better Than One, Campbell’s Soup Cans
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding Portrait [See “Revisiting Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini ‘Wedding’ Portrait.”]
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Mother and Child on the Beach
Henry Moore, Two Forms
San people (Bushmen), rock art paintings
William Scharf, Ascending Betrayal
Michelangelo, “Atlas” Slave
Francisco Goya, Disasters of War, “What More Is There to Do?“
Jackson Pollock, “drip paintings“
Lucio Fontana, slashed canvas (Spatial Concept ‘Waiting’)
Thomas Eakins, The Writing Master
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
Corpus of Christ (Crucified Christ, Metropolitan Museum, Cloisters)
Buddha (Borobudur, Indonesia)
Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary

Postscript: What Can Be Done?

Eric Kuns (alias Ivor Unsk), Photoshop “Installation” of Duchamp’s Fountain in a men’s room
Lucio Fontana, Crucifix, and paintings by Cy Twombly and Ed Ruscha, in “Comparative Paintings and Sculpture,” Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection at the Frick Collection
Henri Matisse, Blue Nude
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase
Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman
Pablo Picasso, Woman with Mustard Pot

Notes

The text regarding Claus de Werve’s Virgin and Child incorrectly states that it alludes to Christ’s ultimate sacrifice. The Metropolitan Museum explains that the meaning relates instead to the Latin inscription on the bench, which reads: “From the beginning, and before the world, was I created” (Ecclesiasticus 24:14). By the thirteenth century—the Met further notes—the Church applied this text (which refers to Wisdom as a feminine entity) to discussions of Mary, but Christ as God incarnate was seen as “the personification of divine Wisdom on earth” and Mary was seen as “the vessel, or throne, that bore him.” ↩

Images of Works Cited in Who Says That’s Art?

Introduction: If Art Can Be Anything, Then It Is Nothing

Chapter 1: What Exactly Are We Talking About?

Chapter 2: What Qualities Make a Work “Art”? And How and Why Do We Respond?

Chapter 3: What’s Wrong with “Abstract Art”?

Chapter 4: Anti-Art Is Not Art

Chapter 5: Do Photography, Video, and Film All Qualify as “Art”?

Chapter 6: Critics and Curators—Informed Guides or Intellectual Bullies?

Chapter 7: What Do Cognitive Science and Evolution Tell Us about Art?

Chapter 8: Rethinking Art Education

Chapter 9: The Dysfunctional Artworld—Who Is to Blame?

Chapter 10: The Pleasures and Rewards of Art—Real Art, That Is

Postscript: What Can Be Done?

Notes