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8/11/2017 ARTH 4420-001 Fall 2017 Modern Art: 1945-1975 https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679 1/6 ARTH 4420001 Fall 2017 Modern Art: 19451975 Jump to Today Edit Monday and Wednesday: 9:4011:00 am. ART 158. Sarah Hollenberg: Art Building, Room 151a. [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) TA: Chandler Keeling, [email protected] Course Description: The class examines a range of American and European art from the 1940s to the 1970s. Lectures and readings cover the period's major movements including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Process and Performance Art as well as the critical debates over modernism, mass culture, gender and sexuality, and the nature of artistic production. Grading will be based on class participation and written assignments. Course Objectives: At the end of this course, students will be able to conduct visual and historical analyses of artworks discuss the relationships between artworks and their historical contexts in an informed and thoughtful manner clearly articulate their observations and discoveries critically read and assess primary and secondary texts conduct effective research write a thesisdriven essay Teaching and Learning Methods: The format of this course includes lecture supported with visual images, critical reading, student participation (in the form of presentations, group work and discussion), and analytic and researchbased writing assignments. Evaluation Methods and Criteria: Reading Analysis Worksheets: 20% (ongoing) Guided Essay: 20% (October 15th) Research Paper: 30% (November 1, December 10) Participation: 30% (ongoing) Reading Analysis Worksheets and Reading questions : You will complete a Reading Analysis Worksheet (RAW) for ten assigned readings (links to the worksheet will be next to the reading in question). Any student who receives three A's (94% or higher) on this assignment may stop submitting the full worksheet, and may simply submit a question for the reading in question. For every required reading for which you have not been assigned a worksheet, you will come to class with a question, written down on a piece of paper which you will submit to the TA at the end of class. You may be called on and asked to share your question during class discussion. NB: The visual analysis assignment and reading worksheet are meant to develop foundational skill sets, so I assign them in almost all of my courses. I have no interest in wasting your time by forcing you to do an assignment that develops skills you already have. If you have taken classes with me in the past, have successfully completed one or both of these assignments, and feel confident in your grasp of relevant strategies, I would be very happy to speak with you about an alternative assignment. Guided Essay : You will be provided with number of questions, and a selection of artworks, the latter organized into three groups. Choose one question, and then one work from each of the three groups. You will write an essay that addresses your question, using the three works you have chosen as the basis of your inquiry. For each of the three works, find one relevant scholarly source to help you to develop your argument (see Research Guide in Pages for support in making your selection). Your essay should take into account formal qualities, historical contexts, and critical readings. Research Paper : This assignment has two parts: a short proposal and annotated bibliography, and the research paper. If you have limited experience writing research papers, it may be helpful to follow a format similar to that in the guided essay, though you are not required to do so. For this paper, you will develop your own question, and select your own works. As in the first paper, you will need to find scholarly sources (in this case, at least 8). This paper is very open, and you are encouraged to follow your own interests in developing your topic—as long as your topic is relevant to the course, examining artworks created between 19451975. I encourage you to come and chat with me about your topic during office hours. Many students wait until they have done a lot of research before they come in for this meeting, but if we have a conversation about your interests early on, I might be able to help you to identify helpful materials or focus your thinking before you have invested lots of time and energy into something that won’t work, or that you aren’t really excited about. Late assignments will be docked 10% per day late. Extensions must be negotiated privately (preferably via email or during office hours) with Chandler. Attendance and Participation Students are expected to arrive to class conversant with assigned readings, and ready to participate in class discussion. You may be assigned presentations or group work. If you think that consistent participation may be a problem for you, please come and speak with me. A significant portion of your participation grade will be based on your reading questions. These questions, which you will post before class, about readings for which you have not completed a worksheet, will help to guide our discussion. You will not receive points for questions submitted on days when you have not attended class, nor for late submissions. Please note that cell phones and other wirelessenabled devices (laptops, tablets, etc.) must be turned off and put away for the duration of the lecture unless cleared with me beforehand. Student and Faculty Responsibilities: Students and faculty are expected to maintain professional behavior in the classroom setting and in all courserelated interactions with faculty and fellowstudents. The Student Code specifies proscribed conduct (Article XI) that involves cheating on tests, plagiarism, and/or collusion, as well as fraud, theft, etc. Students should read the Code carefully and know they are responsible for the content. I take this very seriously. Students who hand in material that they did not write, or containing passages written by anyone other than the student without appropriate citation will receive a failing grade on the assignment, without the possibility of a rewrite, and may receive a failing grade in the class. Additionally, academic dishonesty such as plagiarism must be reported to the Chair of the department and will go on your permanent record. If you don't know the rules, you need to familiarize yourself with them. You can get help with this from me, from the TA, from the writing center, or from this helpful blog:http://betterthancheating.blogspot.com/ (http://betterthancheating.blogspot.com/) Pretty much the whole world wants to help you do it right, so there are no excuses for doing it wrong. I am responsible for enforcing responsible classroom behaviors, beginning with verbal warnings and progressing to dismissal from class and a failing grade. Students have the right to appeal such action to the Student Behavior Committee. The faculty member will strive to maintain an environment in the classroom conducive to thinking and learning. Students are not permitted to share any course materials online or through other means. The uploading of any materials taken from this canvas site, recordings of lectures, or any other sharing of material I provide in class constitutes copyright infringement, and a breach of academic honesty. Americans with Disabilities Act Statement: The University of Utah seeks to provide equal access to its programs, services and activities for people with disabilities. If you will need accommodations in the class, reasonable prior notice needs to be given to the Center for Disability Services, 162 Union Building, 5815020 (V/TDD). CDS will work with us to make

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ARTH  4420-­‐001  Fall  2017  Modern  Art:  1945-­‐1975

Jump  to  Today    Edit

Monday  and  Wednesday:  9:40-­11:00  am.  ART  158.

Sarah  Hollenberg:  Art  Building,  Room  151a.  [email protected]  (mailto:[email protected])

TA:  Chandler  Keeling,  [email protected]

Course  Description:  The  class  examines  a  range  of  American  and  European  art  from  the  1940s  to  the  1970s.  Lectures  and  readings  cover  the  period's  major  movements  -­  includingAbstract  Expressionism,  Pop  Art,  Minimalism,  Conceptual  Art,  Process  and  Performance  Art  -­  as  well  as  the  critical  debates  over  modernism,  mass  culture,  gender  and  sexuality,  and  thenature  of  artistic  production.  Grading  will  be  based  on  class  participation  and  written  assignments.

Course  Objectives:  At  the  end  of  this  course,  students  will  be  able  to

conduct  visual  and  historical  analyses  of  artworksdiscuss  the  relationships  between  artworks  and  their  historical  contexts  in  an  informed  and  thoughtful  mannerclearly  articulate  their  observations  and  discoveries  critically  read  and  assess  primary  and  secondary  textsconduct  effective  researchwrite  a  thesis-­driven  essay

Teaching  and  Learning  Methods:  The  format  of  this  course  includes  lecture  supported  with  visual  images,  critical  reading,  student  participation  (in  the  form  of  presentations,  group  workand  discussion),  and  analytic  and  research-­based  writing  assignments.

Evaluation  Methods  and  Criteria:

Reading  Analysis  Worksheets:                    20%  (ongoing)

Guided  Essay:                                                                      20%  (October  15th)

Research  Paper:                                                              30%  (November  1,  December  10)

Participation:                                                                          30%  (ongoing)

Reading  Analysis  Worksheets  and  Reading  questions:  You  will  complete  a  Reading  Analysis  Worksheet  (RAW)  for  ten  assigned  readings  (links  to  the  worksheet  will  be  next  to  the  readingin  question).  Any  student  who  receives  three  A's  (94%  or  higher)  on  this  assignment  may  stop  submitting  the  full  worksheet,  and  may  simply  submit  a  question  for  the  reading  in  question.For  every  required  reading  for  which  you  have  not  been  assigned  a  worksheet,  you  will  come  to  class  with  a  question,  written  down  on  a  piece  of  paper  which  you  will  submit  to  the  TA  atthe  end  of  class.  You  may  be  called  on  and  asked  to  share  your  question  during  class  discussion.

NB:  The  visual  analysis  assignment  and  reading  worksheet  are  meant  to  develop  foundational  skill  sets,  so  I  assign  them  in  almost  all  of  my  courses.  I  have  no  interest  in  wasting  your  timeby  forcing  you  to  do  an  assignment  that  develops  skills  you  already  have.  If  you  have  taken  classes  with  me  in  the  past,  have  successfully  completed  one  or  both  of  these  assignments,  andfeel  confident  in  your  grasp  of  relevant  strategies,  I  would  be  very  happy  to  speak  with  you  about  an  alternative  assignment.  

Guided  Essay:  You  will  be  provided  with  number  of  questions,  and  a  selection  of  artworks,  the  latter  organized  into  three  groups.  Choose  one  question,  and  then  one  work  from  each  of  thethree  groups.  You  will  write  an  essay  that  addresses  your  question,  using  the  three  works  you  have  chosen  as  the  basis  of  your  inquiry.  For  each  of  the  three  works,  find  one  relevantscholarly  source  to  help  you  to  develop  your  argument  (see  Research  Guide  in  Pages  for  support  in  making  your  selection).  Your  essay  should  take  into  account  formal  qualities,  historicalcontexts,  and  critical  readings.

Research  Paper:  This  assignment  has  two  parts:  a  short  proposal  and  annotated  bibliography,  and  the  research  paper.  If  you  have  limited  experience  writing  research  papers,  it  may  behelpful  to  follow  a  format  similar  to  that  in  the  guided  essay,  though  you  are  not  required  to  do  so.  For  this  paper,  you  will  develop  your  own  question,  and  select  your  own  works.  As  in  thefirst  paper,  you  will  need  to  find  scholarly  sources  (in  this  case,  at  least  8).  This  paper  is  very  open,  and  you  are  encouraged  to  follow  your  own  interests  in  developing  your  topic—as  long  asyour  topic  is  relevant  to  the  course,  examining  artworks  created  between  1945-­1975.  

I  encourage  you  to  come  and  chat  with  me  about  your  topic  during  office  hours.  Many  students  wait  until  they  have  done  a  lot  of  research  before  they  come  in  for  this  meeting,  but  if  we  havea  conversation  about  your  interests  early  on,  I  might  be  able  to  help  you  to  identify  helpful  materials  or  focus  your  thinking  before  you  have  invested  lots  of  time  and  energy  into  somethingthat  won’t  work,  or  that  you  aren’t  really  excited  about.

Late  assignments  will  be  docked  10%  per  day  late.  Extensions  must  be  negotiated  privately  (preferably  via  email  or  during  office  hours)  with  Chandler.  

Attendance  and  Participation

Students  are  expected  to  arrive  to  class  conversant  with  assigned  readings,  and  ready  to  participate  in  class  discussion.  You  may  be  assigned  presentations  or  group  work.  If  you  think  thatconsistent  participation  may  be  a  problem  for  you,  please  come  and  speak  with  me.  A  significant  portion  of  your  participation  grade  will  be  based  on  your  reading  questions.  Thesequestions,  which  you  will  post  before  class,  about  readings  for  which  you  have  not  completed  a  worksheet,  will  help  to  guide  our  discussion.  You  will  not  receive  points  for  questionssubmitted  on  days  when  you  have  not  attended  class,  nor  for  late  submissions.  

Please  note  that  cell  phones  and  other  wireless-­enabled  devices  (laptops,  tablets,  etc.)  must  be  turned  off  and  put  away  for  the  duration  of  the  lecture  unless  cleared  with  me  beforehand.

Student  and  Faculty  Responsibilities:  Students  and  faculty  are  expected  to  maintain  professional  behavior  in  the  classroom  setting  and  in  all  course-­related  interactions  with  faculty  andfellow-­students.  The  Student  Code  specifies  proscribed  conduct  (Article  XI)  that  involves  cheating  on  tests,  plagiarism,  and/or  collusion,  as  well  as  fraud,  theft,  etc.  Students  should  read  theCode  carefully  and  know  they  are  responsible  for  the  content.  I  take  this  very  seriously.  Students  who  hand  in  material  that  they  did  not  write,  or  containing  passages  written  by

anyone  other  than  the  student  without  appropriate  citation  will  receive  a  failing  grade  on  the  assignment,  without  the  possibility  of  a  rewrite,  and  may  receive  a  failing  grade  in

the  class.  Additionally,  academic  dishonesty  such  as  plagiarism  must  be  reported  to  the  Chair  of  the  department  and  will  go  on  your  permanent  record.  If  you  don't  know  therules,  you  need  to  familiarize  yourself  with  them.  You  can  get  help  with  this  from  me,  from  the  TA,  from  the  writing  center,  or  from  this  helpful  blog:http://betterthancheating.blogspot.com/

 (http://betterthancheating.blogspot.com/)    Pretty  much  the  whole  world  wants  to  help  you  do  it  right,  so  there  are  no  excuses  for  doing  it  wrong.  I  am  responsible  for  enforcing  responsibleclassroom  behaviors,  beginning  with  verbal  warnings  and  progressing  to  dismissal  from  class  and  a  failing  grade.  Students  have  the  right  to  appeal  such  action  to  the  Student  BehaviorCommittee.  The  faculty  member  will  strive  to  maintain  an  environment  in  the  classroom  conducive  to  thinking  and  learning.  Students  are  not  permitted  to  share  any  course  materials

online  or  through  other  means.  The  uploading  of  any  materials  taken  from  this  canvas  site,  recordings  of  lectures,  or  any  other  sharing  of  material  I  provide  in

class  constitutes  copyright  infringement,  and  a  breach  of  academic  honesty.

Americans  with  Disabilities  Act  Statement:  The  University  of  Utah  seeks  to  provide  equal  access  to  its  programs,  services  and  activities  for  people  with  disabilities.  If  you  will  needaccommodations  in  the  class,  reasonable  prior  notice  needs  to  be  given  to  the  Center  for  Disability  Services,  162  Union  Building,  581-­5020  (V/TDD).  CDS  will  work  with  us  to  make

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arrangements  for  accommodations.

Accommodations  Policy:  Some  of  the  readings,  lectures,  films,  or  presentations  in  this  course  include  material  that  may  conflict  with  the  core  beliefs  of  some  students.  Please  review  thesyllabus  carefully  to  see  if  the  course  is  one  that  you  are  committed  to  taking.  The  University  of  Utah’s  complete  accommodations  policy  may  be  found  at:http://www.regulations.utah.edu/academics/6-­100.html.

I  am  happy  to  work  with  students  to  make  the  course  accessible  whenever  possible,  however,  if  you  think  you  might  require  accommodations,  you  must  meet  with  me  in  the  first  two  weeksof  class.  I  am  very  unlikely  to  negotiate  content  accommodations  at  any  point  after  September  7.

If  you  need  more  support  than  I  am  able  to  offer,  or  than  you  are  comfortable  asking  for,  please  review  the  resources  available  on  campus  to  help  you  succeed.  

Note  on  Assigned  Readings

Rather  than  using  a  textbook,  we  will  engage  with  readings  from  a  variety  of  sources,  all  of  which  be  hyperlinked  on  the  syllabus.  You  must  print  out  the  required  readings  and  bring  them  tothe  classes  to  which  they  are  assigned.  I  realize  that  this  volume  of  printing  isn't  cheap,  but  it  is  significantly  less  expensive  than  textbooks  or  a  pre-­printed  course-­pack  would  be.  Inaddition  to  required  reading,  I  have  included  links  to  supplementary  readings  for  those  who  are  particularly  interested  in  the  day's  topic.  

For  those  of  you  who  would  like  further  background  in  particular  areas,  I  recommend  the  following  texts.  If  we  were  using  textbooks,  these  are  the  books  we  would  use.  If  you  are  interestedin  the  field  of  modern  art  beyond  just  this  class,  I  would  strongly  recommend  that  you  purchase  copies  of  the  first  three  for  your  library,  and  if  you  feel  like  you  need  more  background  in  thegeneral  developments  of  the  period,  the  Hopkins  or  Crow  may  be  helpful.  Also,  we  sometimes  rely  on  primary  texts  in  this  class,  which  means  that  you  may  not  be  provided  with  an  overviewof  the  issues  before  class.  If,  for  example,  you  are  not  familiar  with  Minimalism  as  a  movement,  the  readings  on  this  topic  could  be  difficult  to  put  in  context.  If  this  happens,  a  little  bit  ofonline  research  will  help  you  to  fill  in  the  gaps  before  class.  In  most  cases,  websites  such  as  Wikipedia  or  Smarthistory  (http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/minimalismjudds-­untitled.html)will  be  adequate  for  this  purpose.  For  those  who  want  to  dig  deeper,  I  have,  in  most  cases,  included  a  number  of  supplementary  readings  on  the  topics  we'll  cover  in  class.  

Francis  Frascina,  ed.  Pollock  and  After:  The  Critical  Debate,  2  Edition,  (London  and  New  York:  Routledge,  2000).

This  is  an  excellent  collection  of  key  primary  texts  exploring  the  shift  from  modernist  to  post-­modern  criticism,  with  a  strong  grounding  in  social  and  political  contexts.

Harrison  and  Wood,  eds.  Art  in  Theory:  1900-­2000  (1900-­1990  is  also  fine,  and  probably  cheaper),  (Blackwell,  2003).

Also  a  collection  of  primary  texts,  but  lots  of  them,  cut  to  the  bare  bones,  instead  of  the  in-­depth  exploration  of  one  set  of  problems  in  Pollock  and  After.  Endlessly  useful.

Rosalind  Krauss,  The  Originality  of  the  Avant-­Garde  and  Other  Modernist  Myths,  (MIT  Press,  1983).

This  collection  of  essays,  written  in  the  1970s  and  ‘80s  is  split  into  two  parts:  “Modernist  Myths”  and  “Toward  Postmodernism.”  While  most  of  the  essays  in  the  first  part  address  materialthat  predates  our  period  of  study,  the  arguments  that  Krauss  builds  are  exemplary  of  the  critical  turn  of  the  1970s,  and  enormously  helpful  to  understanding  changing  ideas  about  art.These  essays  are  challenging,  but  worthwhile.

 David  Hopkins,  After  Modern  Art:  1945-­2000,  (Oxford  University  Press,  2000).

A  survey-­style  overview  of  post-­war  movements,  with  pretty  good  balance  of  art  &  theory.  Not  perfect,  but  not  bad.

 Thomas  Crow,  The  Rise  of  the  Sixties,  (Yale  UP,  1996).

Good  overview  of  the  ‘60s,  with  an  unusually  substantive  discussion  of  activities  outside  of  New  York  (West  Coast  and  Europe,  mostly).

SCHEDULE  OF  LECTURES  AND  ASSIGNMENTS

August  21:  Introduction:  Guernica  

Required:  Andre  Breton,  Diego  Rivera  and  Leon  Trotsky  “Toward  a  Free  Revolutionary  Art”  in  Art  in  Theory,  1900-­1990,  Harrison  and  Wood  eds,  526-­529.Supplementary:  “The  Social  Bases  of  Art ”  Meyer  Schapiro  (1936)  in  American  Artists’  Congress:  Artists  Against  War  and  Fascism.  (103-­113)Supplementary:  T.J.  Clark,  "Mural ,"  Picasso  and  Truth,  (Washington,  DC.  2013),  237-­282.  

August  23:  International  Modernism  In  Architecture

Required:  Alan  Colquhoun,  "From  Le  Corbusier  to  Megastructures:  Urban  Visions  1930-­65 "  Modern  Architecture,  (2002),  209-­229.  Supplementary:  Arthur  Drexler,  "Post-­War  Architecture "  Built  in  the  USA:  Post-­War  Architecture  (MoMA,  1952),  20-­37.*  Supplementary:  "US  Architecture:  1900-­1950 "  Progressive  Architecture,  (January,  1950).  (excerpts)

August  28:  Modernist  Abstraction  (Painting)

Required:  Adolph  Gottlieb,  Mark  Rothko  and  Barnett  Newman  “Statement ”  1943,  in  Art  In  Theory,  568-­569.*Required:  Harold  Rosenberg,  “The  American  Action  Painters, ”  in  The  Tradition  of  the  New,  (McGraw  Hill,  1960),  23-­39.

August  30:  Modernist  Abstraction  (Sculpture)

Required:  David  J.  Getsy,  "Tactility  or  Opticality,  Henry  Moore  or  David  Smith "  Anglo-­American  Exchange  in  Postwar  Sculpture,  1945-­1975,  ed.  R.  Peabody  (Los  Angeles,2011),  105-­121.*  

September  4  is  Labor  Day.  No  Class.  No  Homework!

September  6:  Modernist  Criticism  

Required:  Clement  Greenberg,  “Avant-­Garde  and  Kitsch ,”  `1939.  Supplementary:  Hal  Foster  "Critics  in  Extremis ,"  Design  and  Crime  (and  Other  Diatribes),  (London  and  New  York,  2002),  104-­122.*Supplementary:  Clement  Greenberg,  “Toward  a  Newer  Laocoön ,  (1940)”  in  Clement  Greenberg:  The  Collected  Essays  and  Criticism,  Vol  1:  1939-­1944,  ed.  John  O’Brian(Chicago:  Chicago  University  Press,  1986),  23-­38.

September  11:  Critical  &  Historical  Revisions:                                            

Required:  Thomas  Crow  "Fashioning  the  New  York  School "  Modern  Art  and  the  Common  Culture,  (Yale  UP,  1996).*  Supplementary:  Eva  Cockroft,  "Abstract  Expressionism:  Weapon  of  the  Cold  War "  Supplementary:  Amy  Sillman,  “AbEx  and  Disco  Balls:  In  Defense  of  Abstract  Expressionism ”  Artforum,  (Summer  2011):  321-­325.Supplementary:  Amelia  Jones,  “The  Pollockian  Performative ”  in  Body  Art:  Performing  the  Subject  (University  of  Minnesota  Press,  1998),Supplementary:  Allan  Kaprow,  “The  Legacy  of  Jackson  Pollock ”  1958.

September  13:  Cold  War  Propaganda

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Required:  Oliver  Johnson,  "The  Stalin  Prize  and  the  Soviet  Artist:  Status  Symbol  or  Stigma "  Slavic  Review,  Vol.  70,  No.  4,  (Winter,  2011),  819-­843.*  Supplementary:  Max  Rieser,  "The  Aesthetic  Theory  of  Social  Realism "  The  Journal  of  Aesthetics  and  Art  Criticism,  vol.  16,  no.  2  (December,  1957),  237-­248.  Supplementary:  Boris  Groys,  "The  Culture  of  the  Stalin  Era  in  Historical  Perspective "  The  Total  Art  of  Stalinism,  (Princeton,  1992),  3-­13.  

September  18:  Expanding  the  Object  of  Art

Required:  Claes  Oldenburg  “I  Am  For  an  Ar t,”  (1961),  in  Art  In  Theory.Required:  Jiro  Yoshihara  “The  Gutai  Manifesto ”  (1956),  in  Art  In  Theory.Supplementary:  Leo  Steinberg  "Jasper  Johns:  the  First  Seven  Years  of  his  Art "  in  Other  Criteria,  17-­54.  

September  20:  Expanding  the  Action  of  Art                                  

Required:  Allan  Kaprow,  "A  Statement"  and  "18  Happenings  in  6  Parts "  in  Happenings,  ed.  Michael  Kirby,  (New  York,  1965),  44-­83.  Supplementary:  Moira  Roth,  "Allan  Kapro's  Tree:  A  Happening "  Archives  of  American  Art  Journal,  vol.  47,  no.  1/2,  (2008),  44-­49.  Supplementary:  Frances  Dyson,  "The  Ear  that  Would  Hear  Sounds  in  Themselves :  John  Cage  1935-­1965"  Wireless  Imagination:  Sound,  Radio,  and  the  Avant-­Garde,  eds  D.Kahn  and  G.  Whitehead,  373-­407.  

September  25:  Pop:  Mass  Culture

Required:  Richard  Hamilton,  "For  the  Finest  Art,  Try  Pop "  in  Art  in  Theory,  726-­727.Required:  Umberto  Eco,  "Lowbrow  Highbrow,  Highbrow  Lowbrow "  originally  in  The  Times  Literary  Supplement,  (October  8,  1971).*  Supplementary:  Cecile  Whiting  “Shopping  for  Pop ”  in  A  Taste  for  Pop:  Art,  Gender  and  Consumer  Culture,  (Cambridge,  1997),  7-­49.Supplementary:  Cecile  Whiting,  "Introduction "  Art  and  the  City  in  the  1960s,  (Berkely,  Los  Angeles,  London),  3-­17.

September  27:  Warhol  &  the  Factory                                          

Required:  Andy  Warhol  “Interview  with  Gene  Swenson ”  Art  News,  1963.Supplementary:  Thierry  de  Duve,  "Andy  Warhol,  or  The  Machine  Perfected "  October,  vol.  48  (Spring,  1989),  3-­14.*  Supplementary:  Susan  Sontag,  “Notes  on  Camp ”  (1964)  in  Camp:  Queer  Aesthetics  and  the  Performing  Subject—A  Reader,  Fabio  Cleto,  ed.  (U  Michegan  Press,  1999),  53-­65.NB,  this  should  be  available  online  through  google  books.  Please  let  me  know  if  you  have  trouble  accessing  it.

October  2:  Avant-­Garde  Film

Required:  Michael  O'Pray,  "The  1940s:  American  Mythology "  Avant-­garde  Film  :  Forms,  Themes  and  Passions,  (London,  2003),  48-­57.*  Required:  Shirley  Clarke  &  Storm  de  Hirsch,  "'Female'  Film-­Making:  Transcending  Subjectivity "  in  Arts  Magazine,  (April,  1967),  23-­24.  Supplementary:  Jonas  Mekas,  "A  Few  Notes  on  Maya  Deren "  

October  4:  Minimalism

Required:  Frank  Stella  “Pratt  Institute  Lecture ”  1959,  Art  in  Theory.Required:  Michael  Fried  “Art  and  Objecthood , ”  (all  in  Art  in  Theory,  824-­846.)*  Supplementary:  Donald  Judd  “Specific  Objects ,”Supplementary:  Robert  Morris  “Notes  on  Sculpture  1-­3 ”

FALL  BREAK                                                                                                October  9&11

Guided  paper  due  October  15th,  9:00pm.  

October  16:  Minimalism  in  Hindsight  

Required:  Rosalind  Krauss,  "Overcoming  the  Limits  of  Matter:  On  Revising  Minimalism "  in  American  Art  of  the  1960s,  1991,  123-­141.*  Supplementary:  Anna  C.  Chave,  "Revaluing  Minimalism:  Patronage,  Aura,  and  Place "  The  Art  Bulletin,  vol.  90,  no.  3  (Sep.,  2008),  466-­486.  Supplementary:  David  Raskin,  "The  Shiny  Illusionism  of  Krauss  and  Judd "  Art  Journal,  vol.  65,  no.  1  (Spring,  2006),  6-­21.  

October  18:  New  Monuments

Required:  Tony  Smith,  “New  Jersey  Turnpike ”  excerpt  from  Wagstaff  interview,  Artforum,  1966.  (Just  the  second  page—the  one  that’s  in  English).Required:  Nancy  Holt,  “Sun  Tunnels ”  Stiles,  K.  and  Selz,  P.  Theories  and  documents  of  contemporary  art  :  a  sourcebook  of  artists'  writings,  Stiles,  K.  and  Selz,  P.    Berkeley,  1996(536-­540).*Supplementary:  Yve-­Alain  Bois  "Threshole "  Formless:  A  User's  Guide,  185-­191.

October  23:  Materiality,  Process,  and  Meaning  Production

Required:  Gene  Ray,  "Joseph  Beuys  and  the  After-­Auschwitz  Sublime "  Joseph  Beuys:  Mapping  the  Legacy,  ed.  Gene  Ray,  (2001),  55-­74.*Supplementary:  Germano  Celant  “Art  Povera ,”  1969,  in  Art  in  Theory,  897-­900.*

October  25:  Conceptual  Art

Required:  Adrian  Piper,  “The  Logic  of  Modernism ,”  in  Conceptual  Art,  a  Critical  Anthology,  Alberro  and  Stimson,  eds.  (MIT,  1999).  Required:  Sol  LeWitt,  “Sentences  on  Conceptual  Art ”Supplementary:  Marcel  Broodthaers,  "Interview  with  Jürgen  Harten  and  Katharina  Schmidt,  1972 "  in  Archive,  (London,  2006)  82-­84.  Supplementary:  Rosalind  Krauss,  "LeWitt  in  Progress ",  The  Originality  of  the  Avant-­Garde  and  Other  Modernist  Myths,  244-­258.*  

October  30:  The  Photographic  Document

Required:  Martin  A.  Berger,  "The  Formulas  of  Documentary  Photography "  in  Seeing  Through  Race:  A  Reinterpretation  of  Civil  Rights  Photography,  (2011),  9-­57.  (yes,  it  is  long,but  about  20  of  those  pages  are  pictures).*

November  1:  Dance

Required:  Yvonne  Rainer,  "A  Quasi  Survey  of  some  'Minimalist'  Tendencies  in  the  Quantitatively  Minimal  Dance  Activity  Midst  the  Plethora,  or  an  Analysis  of   Trio  A ,"Work  1961-­1973,  (Halifax,  1974),  63-­74.    Required:  Yvonne  Rainer,  "Trio  A  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em_-­A44HNzc)  "  from  The  Mind  is  a  Muscle,  1966  (short  video).Supplementary:  Sally  Banes,  "The  Birth  of  the  Judson  Dance  Theater "  Dance  Chronicle,  vol.  5,  no.  2  (1982),  167-­212.Supplementary:  Carrie  Lambert-­Beatty,  "Mediating  Trio  A "  Being  watched  :  Yvonne  Rainer  and  the  1960s,  (2008)  127-­166.Supplementary:  Steve  Paxton,  "Steve  Paxton:  Speaking  of  Dance(http://<iframe%20src=%22https://search.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.lib.utah.edu/embed/token/06a7ud1k6so34c8%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20width=%22470%22%20height=%22390%22%20allowfullscreen>

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Course  Summary:  

Date Details

Mon  Aug  21,  2017  Question:  Breton  et  al.  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081102) due  by  9am

Wed  Aug  23,  2017  Question:  Colquhoun  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081130) due  by  9am

Mon  Aug  28,  2017  Questions:  Gottlieb  et  al,  "Statement"  and  Rosenberg  "The  American  Action  Painters"(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081151)

due  by  9am

</iframe>)  "  1996  (11  minute  video,  requires  sign-­in  to  library).Proposal  and  bibliography  due.  

November  6:  Performance:  The  Body  in  Public  and  Private

Required:  Adrian  Piper  “Food  for  the  Spirit ”  in  Out  of  Order,  Out  of  Sight,  Volume  1:  Selected  Writings  in  Meta-­Art,  1968-­1992,  (MIT,  1996),  54-­55.*  Required:  Julia  Bryan-­Wilson,  "Remembering  Yoko  Ono's  Cut  Piece "  Oxford  Art  Journal,  vol.  26,  No.  1  (2003),  101-­123.*  Cherise  Smith,  "Re-­Member  the  Audience:  Adrian  Piper's  Mythic  Being  Advertisements "  Art  Journal,  vol.  66,  no.  1  (Spring,  2007),  46-­58.    

November  8:  Performance:  Labor  and  Social  Engagement

Required:  Vivien  Green  Fryd,  "Suzanne  Lacy's  Three  Weeks  in  May:  Feminist  Activist  Performance  Art  as  'Expanded  Public  Pedagogy '"  NWSA  Journal,  vol.  19,  no.  1(Spring,  2007),  23-­38.  Reccomended  Helen  Molesworth,  "House  Work  and  Art  Work"  Art  After  Conceptual  Art,  66-­84.

November  13:  Counterculture  in  Europe

Required:  Watch  Jean  Luc  Godard,  Tout  va  Bien  (http://utah-­primoprod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/UTAH:EVERYTHING:UUU_ALMA51412234200002001)    (1972),  (you  will  need  to  sign  inusing  your  unid).Required:  Guy  Debord,  “Toward  a  Situationist  International ”  in  Report  on  the  Construction  of  Situations  and  on  the  International  Situationist  Tendency’s  Conditions  ofOrganization  and  Action,  (June,  1957)  trans.  Ken  Knabb,  at  Situationist  International  Online.

November  15:  Post-­Colonial  Voices  and  Global  Negritude

Required:  Elizabeth  Harney,  "The  Ecole  de  Dakar:  Pan-­Africanism  in  Paint  and  Textile "  African  Arts,  vol.  35,  no.  3  (Autumn,  2002),  12-­31  +  88-­90.*  Supplementary:  Jody  Blake,  "Cold  War  Diplomacy  and  Civil  Rights  Activism  at  the  First  World  Festival  of  Negro  Arts "  Studies  in  the  History  of  Art,  vol.  71,  (2011),  43-­58.  Supplementary:  Hannah  Le  Roux,  "Modern  Architecture  in  Post-­Colonial  Ghana  and  Nigeria "  Architectural  History,  vol.  47  (2004),  361-­392.  

November  20:  The  Television  War:  Reactions  to  Vietnam

Required:  GAAG  “Manifesto  for  the  Guerrilla  Art  Action  Group ”  in  Art  and  Social  Change:  A  Critical  Reader,  Bradley  and  Esche  eds.,  Afteral  Books  and  Tate  Publishing,  (2007),175-­177.

Required:  Poppy  Johnson,  "Statement"  June,  1967.  Supplementary:  Tom  Wilson  “Paper  Walls:  Political  Posters  in  an  Age  of  Mass  Media ,”  in  West  of  Center,  163-­180.*Supplementary:  Francis  Frascina,  "Meyer  Schapiro's  Choice:  My  Lai,  Guernica,  MoMA  and  the  Art  Left,  1969-­70 "  Journal  of  Contemporary  History,  vol.  30,  no.  3  (Jul.  1995),481-­511.  

November  22:  Race  in  America                                                                                                                  

Required:  GerShun  Avilez,  "The  Claim  of  Innocence:  Deconstructing  the  Machinery  of  Whiteness "  Radical  Aesthetics  and  Modern  Black  Nationalism,  (Urbana,  Chicago,  andSpringfield,  2017),  29-­60.Supplementary:  Erica  Doss,  "'Revolutionary  art  is  a  tool  for  liberation':  Emory  Douglas  and  protest  aesthetics  at  The  Black  Panther "  New  Political  Science,  vol.  21,  no.  2(1999),  245-­259.*Supplementary:  Shifra  M.  Goldman  “The  Iconography  of  Chicano  Self-­Determination:  Race,  Ethnicity,  and  Class ”  Art  Journal,  Vol.  49,  no.  2  (Summer,  1990):  167-­173.*

November  27:  Electronic  Media:  Open  Circuits

Required:  Marshall  McLuhan  “Introduction”  and  “The  Medium  is  the  Message ”  Understanding  Media:  The  Extensions  of  Man  (McGraw-­Hill,  1964)  3-­21.Required:  Phyllis  Gershuny  and  Beryl  Korot  “The  Alternative  Television  Movement ”  Radical  Software,  Vol.  1  No.  1.,  (1970),  2.Supplementary:  Douglas  Davis,  "The  Radical  Shift:  Technology  as  Creative  Force ,"  Art  and  the  Future,  (New  York,  1973),  67-­95.Supplementary:  Sarah  Hollenberg,  "Televisual  Process:  Bruce  Nauman's  Flour  Arrangements  at  KQED-­TV "  American  Art,  (Summer,  2016),  58-­77.  

November  29:  Electronic  Media:  Closed  Circuits

Required:  Lucinda  Furlong,  "Tracking  Video  Art:  'Image  Processing'  as  a  Genre "  Art  Journal,  (Fall,  1985),  233-­238.  Supplementary:  Barbara  London,  "Time  as  Medium:  Five  Artists'  Video  Installations"  Leonardo,  vol.  28,  no.  5  (1995),  423-­426).  Supplementary:  William  Kaizen,  "Steps  to  an  Ecology  of  Communication:  Radical  Software,  Dan  Graham,  and  the  Legacy  of  Gregory  Bateson "  Art  Journal,  vol.  67,  no.  3(Fall,  2008),  86-­107.  Videos  to  watch  before  class  TBA.

December  4/6:  Wrap-­up                                                                                                                      

Final  Papers  Due  December  10  at  9:00  pm.

 

 

 

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Wed  Aug  30,  2017  RAW  1:  David  J.  Getsy,  "Tactility  or  Opticality,  Henry  Moore  or  David  Smith(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4074439)

due  by  9am

Wed  Sep  6,  2017  Question:  Clement  Greenberg,  Avant  Garde  and  Kitsch  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4151382) due  by  11:59pm

Mon  Sep  11,  2017  RAW  2:  Thomas  Crow  "Fashioning  the  New  York  School"  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4074501) due  by  9am

Wed  Sep  13,  2017  Question:  Johnson  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081154) due  by  9am

Mon  Sep  18,  2017  Questions:  Oldenburg  "I  am  for  an  Art"  and  Yoshihara,  "Gutai  Manifesto"(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081155)

due  by  9am

Wed  Sep  20,  2017  Question:  Kaprow  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081158) due  by  11:59pm

Mon  Sep  25,  2017  Questions:  Hamilton,  "For  the  Finest  Art..."  and  Eco,  "Lowbrow,  Highbrow..."(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081160)

due  by  9am

Wed  Sep  27,  2017  Question:  Warhol  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081162) due  by  11:59pm

Mon  Oct  2,  2017

 Questions:  O'Pray  "The  1940s..."  and  Clark  "Female  Film-­making..."(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081163)

due  by  9am

 Question:  Clarke  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081234) due  by  11:59pm

Wed  Oct  4,  2017

 RAW  3:  Michael  Fried,  "Art  and  Objecthood"  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4079145) due  by  9am

 Question:  Stella  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081165) due  by  11:59pm

Sun  Oct  15,  2017  Guided  Essay  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4148089) due  by  9pm

Mon  Oct  16,  2017  RAW  4:  Rosalind  Krauss,  "Overcoming  the  Limits  of  Matter:  On  Revising  Minimalism"(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4079146)

due  by  9am

Wed  Oct  18,  2017  Questions:  Smith  "New  Jersey  Turnpike"  and  Holt,  "Sun  Tunnels"  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081166) due  by  9am

Mon  Oct  23,  2017  RAW  5:  Gene  Ray,  "Joseph  Beuys  and  the  After-­Auschwitz  Sublime"(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4079147)

due  by  9am

Wed  Oct  25,  2017

 RAW  7:  Adrian  Piper,  "The  Logic  of  Modernism"  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4079148) due  by  9am

 Question:  LeWitt  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081170) due  by  11:59pm

Mon  Oct  30,  2017  RAW  6:  Berger,  "The  Formulas  of  Documentary  Photography"  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4079149) due  by  9am

Wed  Nov  1,  2017

 Questions:  Rainer  (both  text  and  video)  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4151765) due  by  9am

 Proposal  and  Bibliography  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4148065) due  by  9pm

Mon  Nov  6,  2017  Question:  Piper  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4081172) due  by  11:59pm

Wed  Nov  8,  2017

 Question:  Vivien  Green  Fryd,  "Suzanne  Lacy's  Three  Weeks  in  May:  Feminist  Activist  Performance  Art  as  'Expanded  PublicPedagogy'"  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4151610)

due  by  9am

 RAW  :  Julia  Bryan-­Wilson,  "Remembering  Yoko  Ono's  Cut  Piece"  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4079150) due  by  9am

Mon  Nov  13,  2017  Questions:  Godard,  Tout  va  Bien  and  De  Bord,  Toward  A  Situationist  International(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4151345)

due  by  11:59pm

Wed  Nov  15,  2017  RAW:  Elizabeth  Harney,  "The  Ecole  de  Dakar:  Pan-­Africanism  in  Paint  and  Textile"(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4151634)

due  by  9am

Mon  Nov  20,  2017  Questions:  GAAG,  "Manifesto"  and  Johnson,  "Statement"  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4151712) due  by  9am

Wed  Nov  22,  2017  RAW:  GerShun  Avilez,  "The  Claim  of  Innocence..."  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4153660) due  by  9am

Sun  Dec  10,  2017

 Research  Paper  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4148066) due  by  9pm

 Participation  in  Class  Discussion  (https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4151070) due  by  11:59pm

 Questions:  McLuhan  "The  Medium  is  the  Message"  Gershuny  and  Korot,  "The  Alternative  Television  Movement"(https://utah.instructure.com/courses/448679/assignments/4153859)

 

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