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Revised Schedule (remediation
plan)
you may continue to access
the old schedule (including links to first term readings)
here
January 7th
A day to regroup, review,
discuss the first assignment and deal with administrative questions
required reading: Jo-Anne
Birnie Danzker 'Am I Authentic? Excerpt from Dreamings. Tjurrpa:
Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert (kit)
Rasheed Araeen "The Artist as
Postcolonial Subject and this Individual's Journey Towards 'The
Centre'" (kit)
Film: Australian Art fest
Suggested: Clifford, James, Routes. Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge,
MS: Harvard University Press, 1997
| Changing Status of the Artist the construction and deconstruction of social, sexual and national
identities |
January
24th
required reading:
Scarry "The Merging of Bodies and Artifacts in the Social Contract"
(kit)
My Body a
Wunderkammer (web)
film: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN: THE HOTTENTOT
VENUS:
"A Khoi Khoi woman was taken from South Africa in
1810 and exhibited across Britain. A court battle waged by abolitionists
to free her from her exhibitors failed. In 1814, a year before her
death, she was taken to France and became the object of scientific
research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female
sexuality."
-mini review (in class)
January 31st
Genius
Nochlin, "Why have there been no great
women artists?" (kit),
Catherine King "Portrait of the Artist as a Woman" (kit)
film: RECLAIMING THE BODY: FEMINIST ART IN AMERICA
'Taking as starting point the exhibition "Bad Girls" at the New
Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, critics and artists
discuss the differences between woman artists of the 1990's and
their immediate predecessors.'
web resource: Through
Women's Eyes -- New York Times
Group presentation: Guerrilla
Girls. The Guerrilla Girls Companion to the History of Western
Art
February 7th In-class test [end of remediation
period]
Fall examination period will be held from
February 13 to 23. . There will be no formal exam held in this period
for this course.
Winter term begins Monday, February 26.
Tutorials: Basic Dreamweaver
-- Computer Assisted Writing Centre, 531 Scott Library. You will
be assigned one of 2 sessions 9:30-10:30 or 10:30-11:30
February 28th
Sexualities
Required Reading:
Davis "Homosexualism," gay and Lesbian Studies, and Queer Theory
in Art History" (kit)
Davis "Founding the Closet: Sexuality and the Creationof Art History"
(kit)
website: Kiss
and Tell - Lesbian photography on the west coast 1972-1997
Lizard
Jones
Supplemental: Emmanuel Cooper The Sexual Perspective:
Homosexuality and Art in the last 100 years in the West New
York: Routledge, 1986. Kiss and Tell Her Tongue on My Theory,
Vancounver: Press Gang, 1993.
Group
Presentation: Corigliano and
Hoffman, The Ghosts of Versailles: A Grand Opera Buffa in two
Acts
read a bit about it, here
| Challenge of the Avant Garde |
March
7th
Paul Wood "Introduction: The Avant Garde and Modernism"
(kit) "The Point is to Change it: The Avant Garde in the early Twentieth
Century" (kit) required web resource: Carole Maso ‘Rupture,
verge, and precipice: precipice, verge, and hurt not' (poem
- short)
Tutorials: Basic and Intermediate Dreamweaver -- Computer Assisted
Writing Centre, 531 Scott Library. We will all meet 8:30-10:30 (subject
to change- session date yet to be confirmed with CAWC)
March 14th
Paul Wood "The Revolutionary Avant Gardes: Dada, Constructivism
and Surrealism" (kit)
Bureau of Surrealist Research "Declaration of 27 January, 1925"
(kit)
Group Presentation: Andre
Breton , Manifestoes of Surrealism
 click here for more information on this text
March
21st
Barber:
"Art History's Significant Other ... Film Studies" (kit)
Teshome H. Gabriel "Thoughts
on Nomadic Aesthetics and the Black Independent Cinema: traces of
a Journey" (kit)
web resources: Complete
History of The Discovery of Cinematography
Group
presentation: Toni Morrison, Jazz
March
28 architecture
Vidler "Interpreting the Void: Architecture and Spatial
Anxiety" (kit)
Christy Anderson "Masculinity and English Architectural Classisism"
(kit)
Group
presentation: Italo Calvino,
Invisible Cities
a few passages on a few cities here
take a look at a cd inspired by the book here
NB: The last day to drop this course (and
any full year course) without receiving a grade will be March 30
April
4th Space and
the City
Required reading: Harvey "The Urban
Experience" [kit]
Tim Benton "Exhibiting Modernity: the 1889 Universal Exhibition
and the Eiffel Tower" (kit)
Camoli "Machines of the Visible" (kit)
web resource: Great
Buildings Online
suggested reading: Rochelle
Ziskin, The Place Vendôme: Architecture and Social Mobility
in Eighteenth-Century Paris Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1999.
Today we
will meet at the Power Plant Gallery (Harbourfornt Centre) at 9
a.m. to have a tour of the Substitute City show.
April 11th
"Instead, he grasps
the constellation which his own era has formed with a definite earlier
one" required
reading: Walter Benjamin "Theses from the Philosophy" (on the Angel
of History -- short! kit)
Golden "My Brother" (kit) , Hall "What is this ‘Black' in Black
Popular Culture?" (Kit)
film: Last Angel on History.
'Expores the relationships between Pan-African culture, science
fiction, intergalactic travel, and computer technology, in black
music, in the writings of black science fiction writers, and in
the works of black cultural critics.'
some background on the film here
Web resource: Archives
of African American Music and Culture
Group presentation:
Samuel Delany Dahlgren
some biographical information on the author here
April
18th Revisiting High/Low: Graphic novels
required reading: MAUS
film: Architecture
of Doom 'Rise of the Nazi party in Germany from the perspective
of Hitler's use of arts in Nazi policy and propaganda'.
Supplemental: Scott McCloud
Understanding Comics (The book is excellent -- you can also check
out McCloud's
website, here)
April
25th:
Peter Wollen "Modern
Times: Cinema/Americanism/The Robot" (kit)
film: Metropolis background information on the film here
Major Project Due.
May 2nd
Nichols "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems"
(kit)
Bal Quoting Carravagio (introduction) (kit)
Benjamin: The
work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction (online --
also in kit)
Exam Preparation assignment due.
May
9th In-class final
test.
End of classes. Undergraduate
exam period May 12 to May 26.
   
  
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