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ANDREW WYETH Christina’s World (1948)

MARK ROTHKO Untitled (1968)

MAN RAY Les Larmes (Tears) Dread is a feeling of general apprehension. (Kierkegaard interpreted it as “God’s” way of calling each individual to make a commitment to a personally valid way of life.) Anxiety stems from our understanding and recognition of the total freedom of choice that confronts us every moment, and the individual’s confrontation with nothingness. MAN RAY Les Larmes (Tears)

EDVARD MUNCH Night in Saint Cloud (1890) I am my own existence. Nothing structures my world. “Nothingness is our inherent lack of self. We are in constant pursuit of a self. Nothingness is the creative well -spring from which all human possibilities can be realized.” –Jean-Paul Sartre EDVARD MUNCH Night in Saint Cloud (1890)

EDGAR DEGAS “L’absinthe” (1876) From all other humans From human institutions From the past From the future EDGAR DEGAS “L’absinthe” (1876)

Edward Hopper “New York Movie” (1939)

Edward Hopper “New York Movie” (1939)

GEORGIO DE CHIRICO Love Song

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“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.” ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum “The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.” ― Anton Chekhov

Some Famous Existentialists Søren Kierkegaard(1813-1855) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) Albert Camus (1913-1960) “A woman is not born…she is created.” de Beauvoir’s most famous text is The Second Sex (1949), which some claim is the basis for current gender studies. Heidegger German existentialist member of nazi party Social critic Educated in phenomenological tradition of Husserl Sein und Zeit (1927) translated to Being and Time (1962) Freedom Existence in the world Inauthenticity Dread, guilt, destiny Simone De Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She is also known for her lifelong non-monogamous relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre.