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HS 251 Art Criticism: Visual
3 credits
Steven Michael Vroom
Course Description: A historical survey of twentieth century criticism in both Europe and the Americas. By using the historical texts,\ students are encouraged to develop their own critical aesthetic. The city of Seattle will serve as a laboratory for students to refine and articulate critical essays on the varied exhibitions in the community.
Course Requirements:1).Fourteen critical essays profiling a current exhibit in Seattle [80%] 2).Class Participation [10%] 3).Class\Attendance [10%]
Suggested Texts:
Stiles, Kristine and Petert Selz [eds], Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, {rev. ed.}, University of California Press, 1996.
Students will also be expected to look through current issues of;
- Art Forum
- Art in America
- Art News
- Art Week
- Bomb
- Flash Art
- New Art Examiner
- Parkett
- Photo Metro
- Sculpture
- Village Voice
- Visible Language
- Wired
Syllabus [subject to revision]
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Weekly Readings from Chipp
1 Introduction to Course and Concepts of Criticism
2 Jackson Pollock,"Interview with William Wright" p.22
3 Alfred H. Barr, "The New American Painting" p.42
4 Robert Motherwell, "Beyond the Aesthetic" p.26
Louise Bourgeois,"Interview with Donald Kuspit p38
5 Joan Mitchell, "Interview with Yves Michaud p.31
Anselm Kiefer, "Structures are no longer Valid" p.61
6 Ad Reinhardt, "12 Rules for a New Academy" p.86
"25 Lines of Words on Art:Statement" p.90
"The Black Square Paintings? p.92
7 Josef Albers "The Origin of Art", p.107
"On My Homage to the Square" p.107
"The Color in my paintings" p. 108
8 Agnes Martin, "The Untroubled Mind" p.128
Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer "Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled--FEMMAGE p.151
9 Peter Halley, "Notes on the Paintings" p.165
"Deployment of the Geometric" p.166
10 Max Beckmann, "Letters to a Woman Painter p.180
11 Jean Paul Satre,"The Search for the Absolute" p.185
12 Karel Appel, i>"My Paint is Like a Rocket" p.209
13 Senator Jesse Helms, "Senator Helms Objects to Taxpayers Funding for Sacrilegious Art", p.273
14 STELARC, "Beyond the Body: Amplified Body, Laser Eyes, and the Third Hand" p.427
Marcel Duchamp, "The Richard Mutt Case" p.817
"The Creative Act" p818
"Apropos of 'Readymades' " p. 819
15 Group Material, "Caution! Alternative Space" p. 894
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