Readings
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Reading: P. Wood-F.F Franciscina, J. Harris, C. Harrison (ed.), Modernism in Dispute-Art Since the Forties, Yale University Press, 1993; D. Hopkins, After Modern Art-1945-2000, Oxford University Press, 2000; S. Gablik, Has Modernism Failed?, Thames and Hudson, 1988; I. Sandler, Art of the Postmodern Era, Westview Press, 1998. Week 2 Art and Mass Culture: Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Photo-Realism, New Realism Reading: R. Hamilton, ?Letter to Peter and Alison Smithson? (1957) and ?Popular Culture and Personal Responsibility? (1960), , pp. 296-297, pp. 298-300; J. Johns, ?Interview with G.R. Swenson? (1964), pp. 323-324; A. Warhol, ?Warhol in His Own Words: Untitled Statements? (1963-87), pp.340-346; C. Oldenburg, ?I Am for an Art? (1961), pp. 335-337; R. Lichtenstein, ?Interview with G.R. Swenson? (1961), pp. 337-339; P. Restany, ?The Nouveaux Réalistes Declaration of Intention? (1960), pp. 306-308, all in K. Stiles-P. Selz (ed.), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, University of California Press, 1996. Week 3 An Expanding Field: Minimalism and Beyond Reading: R. Hamilton, ?Letter to Peter and Alison Smithson? (1957) and ?Popular Culture and Personal Responsibility? (1960), , pp. 296-297, pp. 298-300; J. Johns, ?Interview with G.R. Swenson? (1964), pp. 323-324; A. Warhol, ?Warhol in His Own Words: Untitled Statements? (1963-87), pp.340-346; C. Oldenburg, ?I Am for an Art? (1961), pp. 335-337; R. Lichtenstein, ?Interview with G.R. Swenson? (1961), pp. 337-339; P. Restany, ?The Nouveaux Réalistes Declaration of Intention? (1960), pp. 306-308, all in K. Stiles-P. Selz (ed.), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, University of California Press, 1996. Week 4 Word and Image Revisited: Linguistic Conceptualism and Conceptual Photography Reading: L. Lippard-J. Chandler, ?The Dematerialisation of Art? (1966), pp. 46-50; L. Lippard, ?Postface, in Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, 1966-1972? (1972), pp. 294-295; S. Lewitt, ?Paragraphs on Conceptual Art? (1967), pp. 12-18; S. Lewitt, ?Sentences on Conceptual Art? (1969), pp. 106-108; Art&Language, ?Introduction? (1969), pp. 98-104; J. Kosuth, ?Art after Philosophy? (1969), pp. 158-177, in A. Alberro-B. Stimson (ed.), Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, The MIT Press, 2000; L. Weiner, ?Statements? (1969), pp. 881-883, C. Harrison-P. Wood (ed.), Art in Theory 1900-1990, Blackwell Publishing, 1994; V. Burgin, ?Looking at Photographs?, pp. 142-153; A. Sekula, ?On the Invention of Photographic Meaning?, pp. 84-109, in V. Burgin (ed.), Thinking Photography, The MacMillan Press, 1982; J. Wall, ?Marks of Indifference: Aspects of Photography in, or as, Conceptual Art? (1995), pp. 145-164, in J. Gaiger-P. Wood, Art of the Twentieth Century-A Reader, Yale University Press, 2003. Week 5 Framing the Frame: Institutional Critique Past and Present Reading: H. Haacke, ?All the Art That?s Fit to Show? (1974), pp. 53-55; M. Eichorn, ?On the Avertissement: Interview with Daniel Buren? (1998), pp. 85-121; A. Fraser, ?From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique? (2005), pp. 123-135; J. Hoffmann, ?The Curatorialization of Institutional Critique? (2005), pp. 323-335, in J. Welchman (ed.), Institutional Critique and After, SoCCas Vol. 2, Jrp/Ringier, 2005; H. Haacke-J. Siegel, ?What Makes Art Political?? (1984), pp. 63-74, Art Talk-The Early 80?s, J. Siegel (ed.), Da Capo Press, 1988; B. Doherty, Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, University of Cali fornia Press, 1976; Art Worker?s Coalition, ?Statement of Demands? (1969), pp. 901-902; H. Haacke, ?Statement? (1974), pp. 904-905, in C. Harrison-P. Wood (ed.), Art in Theory 1900-1990, Blackwell Publishing, 1994. Week 6 Beyond the White Cube: From Earthworks and Site Sculpture to Ecological Art Reading: W. De Maria, ?On the Importance of Natural Disasters? (1960), pp. 527; R. Smithson, ?The Spiral Jetty? (1972), pp. 534; M. Heizer, D. Oppenheim, R. Smithson, ?Discussion? (1968-69), pp. 534-536; A. Denes, ?Wheatfield-A Confrontantion? (1982), pp. 543-544; A. Sonfist, ?Natural Phenomena as Public Monuments? (1968), pp. 545-547; R. Long, ?Five Six Pick Up Sticks? (1980), pp. 563-566, in K. Stiles-P. Selz (ed.), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, University of California Press, 1996. Week 7 Art and the Body: Performance Art Reading: J. Yoshihara, ?The Gutai Manifesto? (1956), pp. 695-697; A. Kaprow, ?Untitled Guidelines for Happenings? (c. 1965), pp. 709-714, O. Mühl, ?Materialaktion: Manifesto?( 1964), pp. 750-751, in K. Stiles-P. Selz (ed.), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, University of California Press, 1996; A. Jones, ?Body Art: Performing the Subject (1998), J. Gaiger-P. Wood, Art of the Twentieth Century-A Reader, Yale University Press, 2003. Week 8 Performance and Process: Fluxus, Arte Povera Reading: J. Beuys, ?Not Just a Few Are Called, But Everyone? (1972), pp. 889-892; J. Beuys, ?I Am Searching for Field Character? (1974), pp. 902-905, G. Celant, ?Art Povera? (1969), pp. 886-889, in C. Harrison-P. Wood (ed.), Art in Theory 1900-1990, Blackwell Publishing, 1994; J. Beuys, ?Untitled Statement? (c. 1973), pp. 633-634; J. Beuys, ?An Appeal for an Alternative? (1981), pp. 634-644; M. Merz, ?Untitled Statements? (1979, 1982, 1984), pp. 671-673; G. Penone, ?Untitled Statements? (1970-1974), pp. 674-675, in K. Stiles-P. Selz (ed.), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, University of California Press, 1996.
Week 9 Women?s Rights: Art and Feminism Reading: L. Nochlin, ?Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?? (1971), pp. 145-178, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays, Thames and Hudson, 1994; V. Export, ?Women?s Art: A Manifesto? (1972), pp. 206; M. Schapiro, ?The Education of Women as Artists: Project Womanhouse? (1973), pp. 208-209; R. Parker-G. Pollock, ?Critical Stereotypes: The Essential Feminine or How Essential is Femininity? (1981), pp. 230-232; A. Piper, ?The Triple Negation of Coloured Women Artists? (1990), pp. 253-254, in H. Reckitt-P. Phelan (ed.), Art and Feminism, Phaidon Press, 2001; J. Barry-S. Flitterman-Lewis, ?Textual Strategies: The Politics of Art-Making? (2003), pp. 53-59; The Guerilla Girls, ?Introduction and Conclusion to the Guerilla Girls? Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art? (2003, pp. 349-354 in A. Jones (ed.), The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Routledge, 2005.
Week 10 The Return to Painting: Neo-Expressionism and Other Tendencies Reading: A. Kiefer-D. Kuspit, ?Interview? (1987), pp. 85-90; G. Baselitz-Henry Geldzahler, ?Interview? (1984), pp. 93-103; G. Richter-B. Buchloh, ?Legacies of Painting? (1987), pp. 105-118; F. Clemente-G.Politi/H. Kontova, ?Interview? (1984), pp. 121-138; E. Cucchi-G. Politi, ?Interview? (1983), pp. 141-151; J. Schnabel-D. Kuspit, ?Interview? (1987), pp. 153-158; D. Salle-P.. Schjeldahl, ?Interview? (1981), pp. 161-172, all in J. Siegel (ed.), Art Talk-The Early 80?s, Da Capo Press, 1988. Week 11 Postmodernism and Appropriation Reading: C. McCormick, ?Steal That Painting! Mike Bidlo?s Artistic Kleptomania? (1985), pp. 191-195; J. Siegel, ?After Sherrie Levine? (1985), pp. 245-255; J. Siegel-C. Sherman, ?Interview? (1987), pp. 269-282; J. Siegel, ?Barbara Kruger: Pictures and Words? (1987), pp. 299-311, all in J. Siegel (ed.), Art Talk-The Early 80?s, Da Capo Press, 1988; J. Welchman, ?Global Nets: Appropriation and Postmodernity? (2001), pp. 1-64, Art After Appropriation-Essays on Art in the 1990?s, G+B Arts International Publishing, 2001.
Week 12 Art, Identity and Globalisation Reading: R. Araeen, ?The Artist as a Post-Colonial Subject and thes Individual?s Journey towards the Centre?, pp. 229-256, in C. King (ed.), Views of Difference: Different Views of Art, Yale University Press, 1999; A. Piper, ?Ideology, Confrontation and Political Self-Awareness? (1981), pp. 787-791 in K. Stiles-P. Selz (ed.), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, University of California Press, 1996; R. Araeen, ?New Internationalism, or the Multiculturalism of Global Bantustans?, pp. 3-12; H. Foster, ?The Artist as Ethnographer?, pp. 12-20; S. Maharaj, ?Perfidious Identity: The Untranslatability of the Other?, pp. 28-37; J. Wilson, ?Will the New Internationalism be the Same Old Story??, pp. 60-79; H. Hanru, ?Entropy; Chinese Artists, Western Art Institutions: A New Internationalism?, pp. 79-89; G. Mosquera, ?Some Problems in Transcultural Curating?, pp. 133-140, all in J. Fisher (ed.), Global Visions-Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts, Kala Press, 1994. Week 13 New Technology, New Media Reading: L. Manovich, The Language of New Media, The MIT Press, 2001; L. Manovich, ?Introduction to Info-Aesthetics?, pp. 333-344, in T. Smith-O. Enwezor-N.Condee (ed.), Antinomies of Art and Culture-Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity, Duke University Press, 2008; C. Paul, ?New Media Art and Institutional Critique: Networks vs. Institutions? (2005), pp. 191-211, J. Welchman (ed.), Institutional Critique and After, JRP/Ringier, 2005. Week 14 Public Art and Participation Reading: O. Enwezor, ?The Production of Social Space as Artwork?, pp. 223-251 in B. Smitson-G. Sholette (ed.), Collectivism after Modernism, University of Minnesota Press, 2007; B. Groys, ?A Genealogy of Participatory Art?, pp. 18-32; R. Frieling, ?Toward Participation in Art?, pp. 32-50; R. Atkins, ?Politics, Participation, and Meaning in the Age of Mass Media?, pp. 50-66, all in The Art of Participation, Thames and Hudson, 2008; N. Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, L Presses de Réel, 2002.
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