UT Dallas - Spring 2010
AHST 3318.501 Contemporary Art, The Conceptual Turn
JO 4.614, Thursdays 7:00-9:45pm
Office locations: JO 5.504
Course Schedule
Sensibility and Effect
January 14
Subject: Sensibility over Style; the Duchamp Effect; Neo-Dada
Reading: Godfrey, 4-52
January 21
Subject: Fluxus, Rosalind Krauss, Post-medium Condition, Broodthaers; Dematerialization of Art
Reading: Barthes, Death of the Author, Image, Music, Text, 142-48 DOCUTEK
Godfrey, 53-120
Surface and Paint
January 28
Subject: Rothko, Newman, Pollock, Fontana, Klein; Nouveau Realism; COBRA; Buren Mosset Parmentier Toroni
Reading: Roland Barthes, “From Writing Degree Zero,” A Barthes Reader, 31-61 DOCUTEK
Godfrey, 121-144
February 4
Subject: Pop: Dick Hamilton to Andy Warhol
Reading: McLuhan, Mechanical Bride, Preface, v-vi DOCUTEK
Barthes, Mythologies, 109-117 [26th printing, c. 1992] DOCUTEK
Godfrey, 144-184
February 11
Subject: Warhol in the 1980s, David Salle, Gerhard Richter, John Pomara, Lisa Yuskavage, John Currin, Takashi Murakami, Inka Essenhigh, Franz Ackermann, Jessica Stockholder
Reading: Thomas Lawson, “Last Exit Painting,” Artforum 20, no. 2 (October 1981): 40-47 DOCUTEK
Barry Schwabsky, “Painting in the Interrogative Mode,” in Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, pp. 6-10 DOCUTEK
Written Assignment #1 Due
Space, Real Estate and Architecture
February 18
Subject: Happenings: Pollock and Kaprow, Oiticica, Stella, Minimalism. and Installation Art
Reading: Alan Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, (From “The Legacy of Jackson Pollock” to “Manifesto”) 1-83 DOCUTEK
Godfrey, 185-278
February 25
Panel on Photography in Jonsson Performance Hall 7:30: Attendance mandatory!
March 4
1. Subject: Archigram, SuperStudio, Real Estate: Gordon Matta Clark and Hans Haacke, Bernard Tschumi
Reading: Simon Sadler, Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, 10-89. DOCUTEK
2. Subject: Situationism, Pneumatics: 1968 in France, Ant Farm
Reading: Jean-Louis Violeau, “Utopie: In Acts,” The Inflatable Moment: Pnuematics and Protest in '68, 37-59 DOCUTEK
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, “The Commodity Spectacle,” 18-26 [fragments 25-53]; “Territorial Domination,” 93-100 [fragments 165-179] DOCUTEK
Mid-term Quiz
March 11
Subject: Architectural Theory, Postmodernism and Deconstruction in Architecture, Tschumi, Eisenman, Liebeskind
Reading: Charles Jencks, The New Paradigm: The Language of Postmodernism, 1-52 DOCUTEK
K. Michael Hays, “Desire,” Architecture’s Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde, 1-22 DOCUTEK
March 18
Spring Break
March 25
Rachofsky House Visit
Time, Kinetics and Open Systems
April 1
Subject: Performance, Gilbert and George, Feminism. Kinetic Sculpture, Land Art
Reading: Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of Science and Technology on the Sculpture of This Century (New York: George Braziller, 1968) 218-274. DOCUTEK
Godfrey, 279-298
Written Assignment #2 Due
April 8
Subject: Video and New Media Art
Reading: Michael Rush, Video Art, “Video and the Conceptual Body,” 63-124 DOCUTEK
Language and Pictures
April 15
Subject: Seth Siegelaub, Sol LeWitt. Robert Barry, Dan Graham, Art & Language
Reading: Alberto Alberro, Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity, 1-6; 26-54. DOCUTEK
April 22
Subject: Words in Painting: Rene Magritte/Picasso/Braque; Pop (review), Joseph Kosuth, John Baldessari, Christopher Wool, Pictures Generation
Reading: Douglas Crimp, “Pictures,” October, no. 8 (Spring 1979): 75-88. DOCUTEK
Godfrey, 343-376
April 29
Subject: Photoconceptualism, Bas Jan Ader, Ger Van Elk, Bas Jan Ader, Jan Dibbets, Jeff Wall,
Reading: WJT Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? 5-56 DOCUTEK
Godfrey 299-342
Final Exam
**New Date** Thursday, May 6 at 7 pm
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