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    Baroque Era The Enlightenment   Industrial Revolution   Romanticsim 1774-1850 Classical Age               AGE OF COMMUNICATION Victotian Age 1836-19000                   Moderism                                                         INFORMATION AGE ATOMIC AGE   COLD WAR ERA         SPACE AGE                                  
PHILOSOPHY Augustine 300 AD   Rene Descartes Gottfried Leibniz - 1705 Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Jean Jacque Rousseau   Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant Georg Hegel Arthur Schopenhauer       Georg Hegel August Comte 1830-45               Impressionism   Frederick Nietzsche         Sigmund Freud                   Clive Bell       Henri Bergson   Sigmund Freud   Martin Heidegger         Walter Benjamin (1936)   John Dewey John Dewey Jean-Paul Sartre   Jean-Paul Sartre Maurice Merleau-Ponty     Hannah Arendt (1958) Marcel DuChamp (1958) Hanna Arendt Martin Heidegger Emmanuel Levinas Herbert Marcuse (1966) Habs-Georg Gadamer 1968 Lewis Thomas Ferdinand de Saussure Jacque Lacan Jacque Derrida 1984 Maurice Blanchot Jean Baudrilliard Alain Badiou Howard Gardner 1993 Gregory Ulmer Maxine Greene  
concept visual language   Cartisianism, 1641 Monads - " New essays On coined the term aesthetics natural law of rights, 1754   Criticism (1781) intellectual beauty Phenomenology Phenomenology / Will to Live         positivism: nature and society               1874 in Paris   Will-to-Power         1st psychoanalytic work                   Aesthetic Theory (1914)       Dynamism of life   Psychoanalysis (1920)   Daesin / Being         The breakdown of art through the copy   1934 Art Ed philosophy Pragmatism Existentialism (1943)   1949 Lit Theory Phenomenology / Perception     Political action Interview by Pierre Cabanne 1958 1962 Ontology Ethical relation of the other homogenization, conformity Hermeneutics / Interpretation man and nature Semiology, (1974)   Deconstructionism Limits of writing (1989) Hyper reality (1998) Multiplicity 1992-98 Learning modalities Electrate (1994) 2001 Aesthetic Education  
title iconography   "Meditations" The Human Understanding Aesthetica Acroamatica Discourse on Inequality   Critique of Pure Reason Critique of Aesthetic Judegement Phenomenology of Spirit The World as Will & Representation       Hermeneutics Cour de Philosophie Positive               First Impressionist exhibition   Beyond Good & Evil                             Art as Significant Form       The Perception of Change   Beyond the Pleasure Principle   Being and Time         Work of Art in the Age of Reproduction   Art As Experience   Being And Nothingness   What is Literature The Visible and the Invisible     The Human Condition "Art as Non-Aesthetic The Human Condition Being and Time The Trace of the Other 1963 One-Dimensional Man Philosophical Hermeneutics Lives of a Cell, (1974) Course in General Linguistics   Of Grammatology The Space of Literature. "Ecstasy of Communication" "Infinite Thought" Multiple Intelligences Heuretics the Logic of Invention The Blue Guitar  
ART 30,000 BC               Immanuel Kant     Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes Eugene Delacroix , 1827     Joseph William Turner   Antoine Chintreuil     James A. M. Whistler Gustave Courbet   Edgar Degas     Claude Monet Odilon Redon Paul Cezanne Vincent van Gogh Auguste Rodin Henri Rousseau Vincent van Gogh     Pablo Picasso Wassily Kandinsky Picasso & Braque Herni Matisse Marc Chagall Umberto Boccioni Marcel Duchamp P. Picasso & G. Braque Cabaret Voltaire Paul Klee           Constantine Brancusi   Museum of Modern Art Piet Mondrian Salvador Dali Frank Lyod Wright Piet Mondrian   Alberto Giacommetti     Marcel Duchamp   Jasper Johns                               Bill Viola  
concept paintings               materiality as representation     Sensation over order Imagination / Romanticism,     Evaporation of form, 1837   Pre-Impressionism     Ficticous space, 1865 Transparent air   Pictoral illusionary space     Impressionism, 1882 Dreams; the unconscious Composition of multiples Multiple perspectives Modern sculpture 1892 1897 impression / expression     Synthetic form (1907) Color as composition Analytic Cubism Synthetic space Psychological symbolism Futurism / Dynamism (1913) event in time 1914 Synthetic Cubism unscript performance 1922           Sybolic motion   1st moderm art museum   1931 surrealism   pure movement   dehumanization     Ready-mades, from 1913   1954-55                               video installation, (2000)  
title France               Towards Perpetual Peace     "The Ruins of the Villa Farnes" "The Death of Sardanapalus"     "Snowstorm, Avalanche, "   "The Coast."     "Nocturnein Blue and Gold" "Seascape", 1874   "Ballet Rehearsal", (1876)     "Cliff Near Dieppe" "The Dream", 1883 "The Bather", (1885) "Shoes", 1886 "Naked Balzac" "Sleeping Gypsy" "Starry Night", (1889)     "Demoiselles de Avingnon" "Picture with an Archer", (1909) "Ma Jolie" & "Soda" "The Red Studio", (1911) "I and the Village", (1911) "Unique Forms in Space" "Network of Stoppages"   Happening "Twittering Machine"           Bird is Space", (1928)   MoMA   Persistance of Memory" Kaufmann House, (1936) Broadway Boogie Woogie   "City Square", (1948)     "Bicycle Wheel", (1951)   Flag                               Quittet of Remembrance"  
MUSIC   Jacopo Peri   Johann S. Bach       Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Ludwig van Beethoven             RICHARD WAGNER             RICHARD WAGNER Will White   Claude Debussy     Richard Strauss     Scott Joplin                           Bessie Smith                         Pierre Scheffer 1948             Dick Higgins   John Cage   John Cage & Lejaren Hiller                    
concept   1597- 1st opera   free fugue       tragic opera   intoduces dissonence             Opera, emersive theater             Opera & Drama, (1876) 1st recorded music   shifting harmonies     1888     1899                                             1936       musique concrte, electronic             Intermedia 1962   Indeterminacy (1965)   indeterminate concert                    
title   Dafine   Well Tempered Clavier       Idomeneus   "Eroica", 1804             Total Artwork             "Ring of the Nibelungs"     Nocturnes'     "Don Jaun"     "Maple Leaf Rag"                           "Lady-luck Blues"                 electric guitar       Symphony for One man Only                 Chance operations   HPSCHD, 1967-69                    
FILM                                 William Henry Fox Talbot 1843   Roger Fenton 1857   Julie Margaret Cameron               Frank Jay Hayes Emily Dickinson Frances Bejamin Johnson Emile Renaud)   George Melies             D. W. Griffith F.T.Marinetti David wark Griffith Lee De Forest C. Sheeler & P. Strand Alfred stieglitz Fernand leger Eugene Atget Fritz Lang Sergei Eisenstein Warner Brothers Vsevolod I. Pudovkin   Alexander Rodchenko   Bernice Abbott 1935 Dorthea lange,   Denis Gabor   Hans Namuth     from Lee De Forest                                  
concept                                 salt print from paper negative   Albumen-silver print   Albumen-silver print               Albumen-silver print (1886) 1890 Platnum Print, (1889-90) (Press)     Science fiction, (1902)             1914 Futurist Cinema (1916) Cabiria movement sound on film (1917) Dynamics of city Gelatin-silver print movie Symbolic culture Future urban society Seamless illusion in cinema 1st public talking film 1927 Theory; Plastic Synthesis   Gelatin-silver print   Women in photography- WPA photographer   Holography (1948)   Art film biography on     TransAtlantic cable (1956)                                  
title                                 "Trafalgar Square, London"   "September Clouds"   "Untitled", 1866               Gibbons Falls, Yellowstone "Poems" "Staway of Treasurer's residence" The Clown and his Dogs   A Trip to the Moon,             The Battle at Elderbush Gulch   "Intollerance", (1916)   Manhattan", (1921) "Equivalent", (1922) "Ballet Mecanique", (1924) "Fete du Trone", 1925 "Metropolis", (1926) "Potemkin", (1926) "The Jazz Singer" Storm Over Asia", (1928)   "Rehearsal, Belomorsk Canal", (1933)   "The Daily News Buikding" Migratory Workers", 1940       Jackson Pollock                                        
LITERATURE 8000 BC                 Jane Austin Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats     Alfred Lord Tennyson   John Ruskin         Ralph waldo Emerson   Mark Twain Henry James Mathew Arnold         Jacob Riis     Upton sinclair     Gertrude Stein             T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Edith wharton                                     Samuel Beckett William Borroughs                              
concept Language                   Function of literature; critque Beauty as Truth, Truth beauty     Victorian poetry   Style / moral aesthetics         1870   1876 1877 Cultural criticism, 1881               Social reform -1902     1902             1917 1920                                       philosophy of mind and body Cut-ups, 1959                              
title Egypt                 Sense & Sensibility "Biographia Literaria", 1817 Ode on a Grecian Urn, 1819     The Hesperides"   From Modern Painters         "Society and Solitude"   "Advebtures of Tom Sawyer" "The American" "Literature and Science"         "How the Other Half Lives"     "The Jungle"     , Three Lives"             Prufrock and Other Observations  Hugh Selwyn Mauberly "The Age of Innocence"                                     "Krapps Last Tape", (1959)                                
POLITICS   Baroque Era The Enlightenment Russian Empire Industrial Revolution 1750   Romanticism Thomas Jefferson   Lewis & Clark   Missouri Compromise     Nat Turner First State Fair Karl Marx     American Civil War Abraham Lincoln         Karl Marx John D. Rockefeller       World's Columbian Exhibition       Theodore Rosevelt               First World War 1917 Russian Revolution                 Stock market crash       Pearl Harbor attach. United Nations Germany surrenders NATO formed McCarthyism (1950)   Brown Vs Board of Ed   Soviet Union Soviet Union Cuban Missile Crisis   Free Speech (1964) Six day War (1967) Neil Armstrong Vietnam War GLOBAL ECONOMY   Chernobyl Meltdown            
concept   grand scale culture of reason   interchangable parts   return to the senses Democracy - 1776   expansionism         Slave revolt (1831) cultural exposition Communist Manifesto (1849)     -1861 Assassinated (1865)                   1893 Chicago       US World Power                 1917                 -1929       USA enter WWll 1941 Begins 1945 End of WWll Military balance Anti-communist hysteria   Desegregation   1st Earth-orbiting satellite First man in outer space 1962     Israel Independence First man on Moon Ends - April 29, 1975 1970   Nuclear threat            
title     The Age of Reason formed 1721 - 2001 ecconomy of production     Declaration of Independence   Exploration 1804           New York, 1841                   das Capital Standard Oil Trust               The Great White Fleet                 Birth of Leninism                               1949         Sputnik (1957)   nuclear standoff       -1969       -1986            
ELECTRATE 2000 BC             Charles-Augustin de Coulomb     Hans Christian Oersted Michael Faraday George Stephenson       Samuel F.B. Morse William Thomson Elisha Graves Otis   Gregor Mendel     Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Thomas Edison                 Lee De Forest       Heike Kamerlingh Onnes       Wlliam Fox                     Zanuck & Schenk Vannevar Bush Commercial TV (1939) Vannevar Bush Howard Aiken Bell Labs       Hydrogen-Bomb   Kilby & Noyce Douglas Engelbart   Ted Nelson     Alan Kay Intel / Noyce (1979   Tin Berners-Lee            
concept battery             theory of electric action     Electricity & magnetism Electric motor (1921) railroad locomotive (1825)         transatlantic cable (1850) Elevator (1854)         1876 1877 Lighting                 Triode Vacuum tube (1907)       Superconductivity (1911)       Begins Media Empire                     1933 Mimex defined   Memex, (1945) First Electric Computer first transistor       0   195 Computer Interface   Hypertext (1963)     Interface (1972) 1st personnel Computer Compact Disc   Internet            
title Egypt                               telegraph (1844)       Genetics (1865)     Telephone Sound recording                                   Fox Film Studio, 1915                     20 Century Pictures Film Studio hypertext   "As We May Think" -1946 -1948           Integrated circuit Mouse, window environment           Altair 8800 (1975) CD   WWW (1989)            
SCIENCE     Sir Isaac Newton Charles de La Condamine Leohard Euler     John Mitchell Marquis de Laplace Alessandro Volta     Nikolai Lobachevski   Cyrus McCormick Charles Goodyear Georg Simon Ohm Rudolf J.E. Clausius Charles Darwin's ' Edwin L. Drake James Clerk Maxwell Friedrich Miescher   Charles Darwin   Ottmar Mergenthaler     Carl Benz 1885   George washington Carver Jules Henri Poincaire Herman mankowski Max Plank Albert Einstein / Physics Ernest Rutherford             Albert Einstein (1915)   Edwin Hubble       Werner Heisenberg   Alexander Friedmann     James Chadwick (1932)     Einstein, Fermi and Wagner Chuck Yaeger       Jonas Salk Watson & Clark C H. Townes & A.L. Schawlow         Stephen hawking 1965-70 Murray Gell-Mann (1969) John Wheeler (1969) Cohen & Boyer (1973) Patrick Steptoe (1978) unknown Russian Stephen Hawking            
concept     1687 1736 1737 Math     describes Black Holes Deterministic universe       Non-Euclian Geometry   Mechanical reaper (1831) vulcanized rubber (1839) Resistance theory Thermodynamics (1850) -1859 -1859 Electo magnetism (1865) 1869   1872   1884     1st Automobile to use an   1898 Modern agriculture 1895Math 1896 Geometrical theory Quantum Theory Henri Poincare / Math Electron discovered (1908)             General Relativity   Multiple galaxies       1926   George Lemaitre (1927)     Discovers neutron     Sustained nuclear reaction Breaks sound barrier       Vaccines -1953 Develop LASER         Roger Penrose Discovers Quarks / flavors Black Holes Genic Engineering 1st test tube baby Dark matter 1984            
title     "Principia" invents rubber invents the symbol for pi     particle wave electric batery                 On the Origin of Species First oil well   Discovery of DNA   The Descent of Man    Linotype machine     Internal combustion engine   Crop Rotation Topology as physics 4-D space-time theory   Theory of Relativity (1905)                   Expanding Universe       Uncertainty Principle   Big Bang theory           (Dec. 2, 1942)         1952 Defined DNA structure           "wormholes"     Bio Technology Louise Joy Brown   String Theories            
INVENTION     Anthony van Leeuwenhoek Thomas Savery Henry Mill   Cugnot, Nicolas-Joseph     Joseph marie Jaquard   Thomas Wedgewood Joseph-Nicephore Niepce William Austin Burt Cyrus McCormick Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre William Henry Fox Talbot Joseph Dart George Boole Averil Paint Co. Christopher Latham Sholes Montgomery Ward Thomas Edison   Nikolaus A. Otto George Eastman   Gottlieb Daimler Etienne Lenoir George Eastman Thomas Edison Rudolf C.K. Diesel Ferdinand Zeppelin Wilber & Orville Wright     Henry Ford                                                                                        
concept     discovers 1683 1698 1714   1769 steam powered     "punch card" technology   a potter uses silver nitrates Invented film (1827) 1829 typing machine Mechanization 1831 1837 Invents daguerreotypes negative print film Mechanized production 1854 Symbolic logis 1867 1867 1st modern typewriter 1872- marketing 1872   1876     1885 invention inveted in 1885 1888 1st movie camera (1891) 1892   1st airplane, (1903)     Assembly line 1908                                                                                        
title     bacteria Steam engine typing engraver   First Automobile     1805 Jaquard Loom   light sillouettes Invents photography typographer Reaper 1st Camera calotype or talbotype Mechanized grain elevator Booleen Algebra Premixed paints Typewriter & QWERTY Mail order catalog Electric Typewriter   4 stroke engine Film roll   carborator Internal combustion engine Box Camera   Diesel engine Dirigible (1900)       Model T                                                                                        
Architecture                                                             Gustav Eiffel                         Walter Gropius                                       Opening of Disneyland                                  
concept                                                             Metal urology 1889                         philosophical architecture                                       First theme park                                  
title                                                             Eiffel Tower                         Bauhaus, School, (1919)