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Schedule (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
Sept 13
Introductions
C ourse outline and design: What is a cultural studies
approach to Western Arts, Histories and Societies?
Assignments and expectations
| Academies, Museums and Canons of Art -- "who decides which artists and works of art will
be more highly valued than others?" |
Sept 20: Western Aesthetics as Narrative
required reading: Davies, Comparative
aesthetics - Read sections 1 "The Problem" , 2 "Western Aesthetics
as Narrative". Feel free to explore this site.
Film excerpts:
Art of the Western World Series: the Classical Ideal ('Traces
the origins of humanism and much of Western art to ancient Greece')
and Art in an Age of Mass Culture
('Themes of the exhibition "High and Low: Modern Art and
Popular Culture" at the Museum of Modern Art New York.')
Sept 27 -- Believing is Seeing
required reading: Davies, section
3 "Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Aesthetics"
web resource: Please check the pages for an additional reading.
Supplemental: John Berger. Ways of Seeing. London: BBC/Penguin Books,
1972.
Tutorials: Introduction to webct (and to the Centre) -- Computer Assisted Writing Centre, 531 Scott
Library. You will be assigned one of 2 sessions 9:30-10:30 or 10:30-11:30
October 4 Orders
and Institutions
required reading: Cunningham "The Parthenon
Marbles" (kit)
Edwards - collection of primary texts discussing the Elgin Marbles
(kit)
web resource: BRITISH
MUSEUM homepage (opens in new window)
supplemental : Mieke Bal-- Double Exposures. The Subject of Cultural
Analysis. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Film: Ways of Seeing (moved from last week)
October 11
required reading: Davies, section
4 "The Architectonics of Art"
Andre Malraux (1947) "Museum Without
Walls" [Art and Its Histories 302-313]
Emma Barker "Introduction: The Changing
Museum" (kit)
collecting: s
m i t h s o n i a n w i t h o u t w a l l s ('Revealing Things'
Exhibit)
film: Cannibal
Tours 'Dennis O'Rourke
Depicts the interaction between tourists on a luxury cruise in the
South Pacific and the aboriginal people of Papua New Guinea. Examines
western culture's fascination with the exotic.'
supplemental: Deborah Root Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation and the Commodification of
DifferenceBoulder, Colorado: Westview, 1996.
October 18 high/low
required reading: Emma Barker Exhibiting
the Canon: The Blockbuster show (kit)
Film: Hunters and Gatherers
'Collectors talk about their obsessions, ranging from wind-up toys,
through Donald Duck items, Titanic memorabilia, Betty Boop items,
to barbed wire and bread tags.'
Web resource: Collectibles and
Nostalgia Search Engine
Group Presentation: Corigliano
and Hoffman, The Ghosts of Versailles: A Grand Opera Buffa in
two Acts
read a bit about it, here
reading strategies sheet due (the group presenting this week may hand in their papers October 25th.)
Tutorials: Critical Skills for Internet Research -- Computer Assisted Writing Centre, 531 Scott
Library. You will be assigned one of 2 sessions 9:30-10:30 or 10:30-11:30
October 25
required reading:
Davies section 5: Art's Body
Fionna Barber "Caillebot, Masculinity and the Bourgeois Gaze" (kit)
film: Folk Art Found Me. 'Folk artists from Nova Scotia describe
their work'
November 1
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 |
November
8
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."
November 15
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
November 22 Class
required reading: Horsfall
"Art in Large Towns: In What Ways can the Influence of Art be Brought
to Bear on the masses of the Population in Large Towns (1882) [kit]
Lynda Nead "Class and Sexuality
in Victorian Art" (kit)
Dorothy Allison "A question
of Class" (kit)
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
November 29 In-class test.
Last day of classes for the fall term is December 4th, 2000. Happy Holidays!
December exam period for undergraduates
Dec 6-21st. There will be no formal exam held in this period for
this course.
January 3 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.
Tutorials: Intermediate 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
| Challenge of the Avant Garde |
January
10
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)
January
17
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
Tutorials: Writing Strategies with Microsoft Word -- Computer Assisted
Writing Centre, 531 Scott Library. You will be assigned one of 2
sessions 9:30-10:30 or 10:30-11:30
January 24
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
January
31 architecture
Vidler "Interpreting
the Void: Architecture and Spatial Anxiety" (kit)
Christy Anderson "Masculinity
and English Architectural Classisism" (kit)
Group presentation:
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
February 7 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.
Tutorials: In-class
lab time to work on final projects -- Computer Assisted Writing
Centre, 531 Scott Library. You will be assigned one of 2 sessions
9:30-10:30 or 10:30-11:30
*N.B. Last day to drop full year courses is February 9th.
February
14 -- READING WEEK. No classes.
February 21
"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.'
Web resource: Archives
of African American Music and Culture
Group presentation:
Samuel Delany Dahlgren
February 28 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)
March 7:
Peter Wollen "Modern Times: Cinema/Americanism/The
Robot" (kit)
film: Metropolis
Major Project Due.
March 14 1950 and
60s
Wollen "Notes From the Underground: Andy Warhol" (kit)
film: The Age of Anxiety 'American art reflects
the upheavals of the last 25 years'
web resource: nostalgia:
Welcome to RETRO
Group presentation:
Toni Morrison, Jazz
March 21
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)
March
28
Goldfarb "Collecting
the Present: From Dematerialized Art Objects to Digital Culture"
(kit)
Wollen "Into the Future: Tourism,
Language and Art" (kit)
Exam Preparation assignment
due.
April 4 In-class final test.
end of classes. Undergraduate
exam period April 11-30.
   
  
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