Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 3·c. 1955

Kourion Complex (Stadium) “Fluted Columns in Cypress” Benson c. 1955Jack L. Benson

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Scan 19 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 3 (Kourion Complex (Stadium) “Fluted Columns in Cypress” Benson c. 1955), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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ART 312

LECTURE XXIV

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MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887- - born near Rouen - 1913, Nude Descending the Staircase, shown in the New York "Armory Show" - 1914, the first "ready mades" - 1915, arrived in New York; the Stieglitz Group - 1923, gave up painting "for chess" - lives in New York

Nude Descending a Staircase, Hollywood, Pvt. Coll., 1912 The Virgin in the Process of Becoming a Wife, New York, MOMA, 1912 The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, (unfinished), 1914-1923

- Studies, 1914: Nine Malix Molds, Paris, Pvt. Coll. The Chocolate Grinder

Bottlerack, Pvt. Coll., Paris, 1914 The Fountain (R. Mutt), 1917 Why Not Sneeze (Rose Sélavy), 1921, Pvt. Coll., Paris

FRANCIS PICABIA (1879- - born in Paris - 1903-1912, painted impressionist, Cubist and "Orphist" pictures - 1913, came to New York; exhibited in Independents; review "291" - 1916, in Barcelona, edited "391"; returned to U.S.

Cover for "291" (edited by Alfred Stieglitz), 1915 Amorous Display, Paris, Pvt. Coll., 1917 Cover for #391: Mona Lisa with Moustache after original by Marcel Duchamp

KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948) Collages: "Merz Pictures"; also "Merzreliefs" and "Merzconstructions" Collage, New York, Pvt. Coll., 1920 Eintrittskarte, Merz 456, 1922 Construction, New York, Pvt. Coll.; 1923 Picture with a Light Center, New York, MOMA

HANS ARP (1887- - born in Alsace - 1904, came to Paris; learned of modern painting - 1911, collaborated with Kandinsky on Der Blaue Reiter - 1914, met Apollinaire, Picasso and Cubists - 1915, settled in Zurich - 1920, worked with Max Ernst on Dadaist publications - 1950, travelled to the United States

Colored Wooden Forms, Coll. of Artist, 1917 Relief, Gallatin Collection Growth, Philadelphia, Museum Human Concretion, New York, MOMA, 1935

SOPHIE TÄUBER-ARP, Dada Head, 1920

MAX ERNST (1891- - The Two Ambiguous Figures, Pvt. Coll., 1919 The Chinese Nightingale, 1920 Title page for Die Schammade (Dadameter), 1920

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