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Week 1 - 8/28 and 8/30: What is contemporary art? How do artists work today?
Week 2 - 9/4 and 9/6: Ways of Seeing
Berger, John (1971). Ways of Seeing, Chapter 1
Ewing, Eve. (2017, April 6). Why Authoritarians Attack the Arts. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/opinion/why-authoritarians-attack-the-arts.html
Berger_Ways of Seeing Chpt 1.pdfEwing_Why Authoritarians Attack the Arts - The New York Times.pdf
Laurel Lawson and Alice Sheppard performing in December 2016. Photo credit: Robbie Sweeny
Week 3 – 9/11 and 9/13: What is Visual Culture I? Representation, Power, and Politics
Sturken & Cartwright (2017), Practices of Looking, Chapter 1 – “Images, Power and Politics” pp. 13-29.
Cardoza, Kerry. (2017, Aug 2). How Amanda Williams Draws Attention to the Valuation of Black Neighborhoods. The Chicago Reader. Retrieved from https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/amanda-williams-museum-contemporary-art-englewood-houses/Content?oid=28611796
Cardoza_How Amanda Williams draws attention_Chicago Reader_2017.pdf
Practices of Looking Ch. 1.pdf
Week 4 - 9/18 and 9/20: What is Visual Culture II? Signifying Practices
Sturken & Cartwright, Chapter 1, pp. 29-49.
Barthes, Roland. (1978). Death of the Author. Image, Music, Text, pp. 142-48.
Barthes_Death of the Author.pdf
Practices of Looking Ch. 1.pdfWeek 5 - 9/25 and 9/27: Viewers Make Meaning
Practices of Looking Ch. 2.pdfWeek 6 – 10/2 and 10/4: Subjects and Objects I: On Looking and Being Looked At
Week 7 - 10/9 and 10/11: Subjects and Objects II: Resisting the Gaze
Sturken & Cartwright, Chapter 3 – “Modernity, Spectatorship, The Gaze, and Power” pp. 89-138.
Practices of Looking Ch. 3.pdfWeek 8 - 10/16 and 10/18: Subjects and Cities: Urban Interventions
Michaels, Samantha. “A Conversation With Candy Chang.” The Atlantic, Aug 15, 2011.
McGee, Barry. Public and Private Space (Interview). Art 21.
https://art21.org/read/barry-mcgee-public-and-private-space/
Whyte, William. (1980). The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (excerpts). New York: Project for Public Spaces. http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/luka/urbandesignhousing/temp/shaver2015/kulturforum/Whyte1980-2000-excerpts1.pdf
Public and Private Space | Art21.pdf
A Conversation With Candy Chang, Public...ion Artist and Designer - The Atlantic.pdf
Whyte_The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces-excerpts1.pdf
Week 9 - 10/23 and 10/25: Art in/and Everyday Life I: The Art of World Making
Kennedy, Randy. “An Artist Who Calls the Sanitation Department Home.” The New Yorker, Sept 21, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/arts/design/mierle-laderman-ukeles-new-york-city-sanitation-department.html
Vu, Mimi. “Artful and Stunning Cabinets of Curiosities, Decoded.” The New York Times Style Magazine, Feb 26, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/t-magazine/mark-dion-sculpture-tanya-bonakdar.html
Kennedy_An Artist Who Calls the Sanitation Department Home_The New York Times_2016.pdf
Vu_Artful and Stunning Cabinets of Curiosities, Decoded_The New York Times_2016.pdf
Week 10 - 10/30 and 11/1: Social Practice: Place and Context
Urban Interventions and Field Trip to Jane Addams Hull House
No reading this week!
Week 11 - 10/6 and 10/8: Urban Interventions; Social Practice, Place and Context
Jackson, Shannon. (2012). Living Takes Many Forms. In N. Thompson (Ed.), Living as Form: Socially-Engaged Art from 1992 to 2011 (86-93). Cambridge: M.I.T. Press.
Lind, Maria. (2012). Returning on Bikes: Notes on Social Practice. In N. Thompson (Ed.), Living as Form: Socially-Engaged Art from 1992 to 2011 (46-55). Cambridge: M.I.T. Press.
Jackson_Living Takes Many Forms.pdfLind_Returning on Bikes.pdfWeek 12 - 11/13 and 11/15: Postmodernism and Portfolios
Sturken & Cartwright, Chapter 8, “Postmodernism: Irony, Parody, and Pastiche” pp. 301-330.
Practices of Looking Ch. 8.pdfWeek 13 - 11/20 and 11/22: Manifesto writing and Zine making
Readings TBA
Week 14 - 11/27 and 11/29: Artist Statements
Artist Statements TBA
Week 15 - 12/4 and 12/6: Final Portfolio Presentations
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