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AHST 3318.501: Contemporary Art and Architecture
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Schedule
Wednesday January 14
Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock: Apotheosis and Death of Modern Painting
-Greenberg, Clement, “Avant-garde and Kitsch,” http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/kitsch.html
-Greenberg, Clement, “Modernist Painting,” http://www.sharecom.ca/greenberg/modernism.html
-Kaprow, Allan, “The Legacy of Jackson Pollock,“ 1-9, Docutek
Wednesday January 21
The Duchamp Effect: Neo-Dada, Collage, Combines and Assemblages
Kinetic Art: Alexander Calder, Jean Tinguely, Victor Vasarely
-Hopkins, 1-66, course textbook
-Hapgood, Susan and Jennifer Rittner, “Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-1962,” Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jan., 1995), pp. 63-70, JSTOR
-Tomkins, Calvin, “Jean Tinguely,” The Bride and the Bachelors, pp. 145-187, Docutek
Wednesday January 28
Polymorphic Perversity: The Body and Performance
Fluxus, Happenings and Protest
-Schneemann, Carolee (Winter 1991) "The Obscene Body/Politic," Art Journal 50 (4): 28–35, JSTOR
-Kaprow,Allan, “Happenings in the New York Scene,” 15-26, Docutek
-Berghaus, Gunter, “Happenings in Europe in the '60s: Trends, Events, and Leading Figures,” TDR (1988-), Vol. 37, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 157-168, JSTOR
-O’Dell, Kathy, “Fluxus Feminus,” TDR (1988-), Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring, 1997), pp. 43-60, JSTOR
Wednesday February 4
In-class film
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006)
Wednesday February 18
British Pop! The Independent Group
American Pop! The Irony and Ecstasy of Mass Consumerism
-Massey, Anne, “The Independent Group: Towards a Redefinition,” The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 129, No. 1009 (Apr., 1987), pp. 232-242, JSTOR
-Nigel Whiteley, “Banham and 'Otherness': Reyner Banham (1922-1988) and His Quest for an Architecture Autre,” Architectural History, Vol. 33, (1990), pp. 188-221, JSTOR
-Bergen, Paul, “Andy Warhol: The Artist as Machine Andy Warhol: The Artist as Machine,” Art Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Summer, 1967), pp. 359-363, JSTOR
-Mattick, Paul, “The Andy Warhol of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Andy Warhol The Andy Warhol of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Andy Warhol,” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Summer, 1998), pp. 965-987, JSTOR
Wednesday February 11
French Pop! Nouveau Réalisme
Art Architecture and Revolution in Paris: Lettrisme, the Situationist International, and May 1968
Written Assignment I Due, Review of Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson at the DMA
-Cone, Michèle C., “Pierre Restany and the Nouveaux Réalistes Pierre Restany and the Nouveaux Réalistes,” Yale French Studies, No. 98, The French Fifties (2000), pp. 50-65, JSTOR
-McDonough, Thomas, “Situationist Space,” October, Vol. 67, (Winter, 1994), pp. 58-77, JSTOR
-Andreotti, Libero, “Play-Tactics of the "Internationale Situationniste,” October, Vol. 91, (Winter, 2000), pp. 36-58, JSTOR
Wednesday February 18
Late Modern Architecture: Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph and Megastructures
The Neo-Avant-garde in Architecture Archigram, Archizoom and Superstudio
-Rohan, Timothy, “Rendering the Surface: Paul Rudolph's Art and Architecture Building at Yale Rendering the Surface: Paul Rudolph's Art and Architecture Building at Yale,” Grey Room, No. 1 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 84-107, JSTOR
----------, “Amazing Archigram: A Supplement,” Perspecta, Vol. 11, (1967), pp. 131-154, JSTOR
----------,“Archigram,” Design Quarterly, No. 74/75, Process and Imagination (1969), pp. 28-33, JSTOR
-Archigram, “Instant City,” Design Quarterly, No. 78/79, Conceptual Architecture (1970), pp. 11-16, JSTOR
Wednesday February 25
Minimalism and the Death of the Author
-Bathes, Roland, “The Death of the Author,” Image, Music, Text, 142-148,
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/barthes06.htm
-Hopkins, 67-94; 161-196, course textbook
Wednesday March 4
Conceptualism: Language and the Sign
Conceptualism: Italian Arte Povera
-Hopkins, 161-196, course textbook
-Lippard, Lucy R. and John Chandler, “The Dematerialization of Art,” in Conceptual Art a Critical Anthology, pp. 46-52, Docutek
-Buchloch, Benjamin, “Conceptual Art 1962-1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions,” in Conceptual Art a Critical Anthology, pp. 46-52, Docutek
Wednesday March 11
Mid-Term Exam
Wednesday March 18
Spring Break
Wednesday March 25
Identity Politics I: Gender and Sexuality in the 1970s
Identity Politics II: Gender and Sexuality in the 1980s
-Miriam Schapiro, “The Education of Women as Artists: Project Womanhouse,” Art Journal, vol. 31, no. 3 (Spring 1972) 268-270, JSTOR
-Mary Kelly and Paul Smith ,“No Essential Femininity,” in The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, Donald Preziosi, ed. 370-382, Docutek
-Peggy Phelan, “Serrano, Mapplethorpe, the NEA and You: ‘Money Talks’: October 1989,” TDR (1988-) Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 1990) pp. 4-15, JSTOR
Wednesday April 1
Postmodernism I: Pictures and Simulations
Postmodernism II: Neo-Expressionism and Graffiti
-Hopkins, 197-232, course textbook
-Baudrillard, Jean, “Simulacra and Simulations,” Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster, pp.166-184 http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html
-Thomas Lawson, “Last Exit: Painting,” Art Forum, October 1981, Docutek
Wednesday April 8
Postmodernism III: Signage, Historicism, and Space
Deconstruction in Art and Architecture
-Jameson, Fredric, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, pp. 97-130, Docutek
-Venturi, Scott and Brown, Learning from Las Vegas, Part 2, pp. 87-163, Docutek
-McLeod, Mary, “Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era: from Postmodernism to Deconstructivism,” Assemblage, No. 8 (Feb., 1989), pp. 22-59. JSTOR
Wednesday April 15
Site Visit: Rachofsky House
Class meets at 8605 Preston Road
http://www.rachofskyhouse.org/
Wednesday April 22
British Art in the 1990s
Dutch Architecture in the 1990s
Written Assignment II Due, Review of Ted Setina: Dark Energy/Dark Matter at Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency
-Shone, Richard, “From ‘Freeze’ to House: 1988-94,” Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, ed. Norman Rosenthal, pp. 12-25, Docutek
-Jardine,Lisa, “Modern Medicis: Art Patronage in the Twentieth Century in Britain,” in Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, ed. Norman Rosenthal, pp. 40-48, Docutek
-Koolhaas, Rem, “Urbanism after Innocence: Four Projects: The Reinvention of Geometry Urbanism after Innocence: Four Projects: The Reinvention of Geometry,” Assemblage, No. 18 (Aug., 1992), pp. 82-113, JSTOR
-Koolhaas, Rem, “Junkspace,” October, Vol. 100, Obsolescence (Spring, 2002), pp. 175-190, JSTOR
Wednesday April 29
Painting and Politics in the New Millennium: From Franz Ackerman to Thomas Hirschorn
SCATTER: Sarah Sze and Jessica Stockholder
-Francess Colpitt, “Dumb Painting: The End of Representation,” Artl!es, (Summer 2005) Available at www.artlies.org
-Schwabsky, Barry, “Painting in the Interrogative Mode,” in Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, pp. 6-10, Docutek
-Schwabsky, Barry, “GI Symposium: Painting as New Medium,” http://www.artandresearch.org.uk/v1n1/schwabsky.html
-Christopher Miles, “The Death of Painting and The Writing of Painting’s Post-Crisis, Post-Critique Future,” Artlies (Summer 2005) Available at www.artlies.org
Wednesday May 6
Reading Week
Monday May 11
Final Exam 7:00-9:45