This section is a chronological index to the required and supplemental texts for this semester. Readings that are not available in electronic format are listed on your Syllabus and available either as hardcopy books or in the course packet. To access and download electronic texts, just click on the link in the far right column below (PDF or HTML).
We'll be discussing these and other texts in the Discussion area on the blog. So if you have questions or comments, please raise them there.
Required Readings [Revised 9 April 08]
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| Author | Title | Due Date | Link |
Week 1 |
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| Timothy Quigley | "Introduction to Visual Studies" | 28 Jan 08 | |
| Joshua Taylor | Learning to Look (51-76) | 28 Jan 08 | Book |
| Joshua Taylor | Learning to Look (139-158) | 1 Feb 08 | Book |
Week 2 |
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| Ed Harris | Pollock | 4 Feb 08 | DVD |
| Stuart Davis | Artists' Writings, "The Artist Today" | 4 Feb 08 | |
| Mark Rothko & Adolph Gottlieb | Artists' Writings, "Statement" | 4 Feb 08 | |
| Mark Rothko & Adolph Gottlieb | Artists' Writings, "Art in New York" | 4 Feb 08 | |
| Barnett Newman | Artists' Writings, Excerpts from Tiger's Eye | 4 Feb 08 | |
Week 3 |
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| Jonathan Harris | Modernism in Dispute (3-41) | 11 Feb 08 | Book |
| Louise Bourgeois | Artists' Writings: "Artist's Statement" | 11 Feb 08 | |
Week 4 |
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| Clement Greenberg | "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" | 18 Feb 08 | |
| Meyer Schapiro | "The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art" (Revised 16 Feb 08) | 18 Feb 08 | |
Week 5 |
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| Jonathan Harris | Modernism in Dispute (42-74) | 25 Feb 08 | Book |
Week 6 |
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| Clive Bell | "Art and Significant Form" | 3 Mar 08 | |
| Clement Greenberg | "Modernist Painting" | 3 Mar 08 | |
Week 7 (10 -16 Mar) -- Study period & Midterm |
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Week 8 (17-23 Mar) -- Spring Break |
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Week 9 |
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| T. R. Quigley | "Introduction: Part 2" | 24 Mar 08 | |
| T. R. Quigley | "Prelude to Kant's Aesthetic Theory" | 24 Mar 08 | HTML |
| Douglas Burnham | "Theory of Aesthetics and Teleology" (1-19) | 24 Mar 08 | |
Week 10-11 |
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| Mick Underwood | Semiotics | 31 Mar 08 | HTML |
Week 12 |
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| Maurice Merleau-Ponty | "Eye and Mind" | 14 Apr 08 | |
Week 13 |
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| Roland Barthes | "From Work to Text" (annotated version) | 21 Apr 08 | |
| Roland Barthes | "Rhetoric of the Image" (excerpt) | 21 Apr 08 | |
Week 14-15 |
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| Fredric Jameson | "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" | 28 Apr 08 | |
Supplementary Readings
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Case Study: NYC, 1930-1960 |
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| Robert Goodnough | "Pollock Paints a Picture" | ||
| Anne Wagner | "Lee Krasner as L.K." | ||
| Bradford Collins | "Life Magazine and the Abstract Expressionists, 1948-51" | ||
| Max Kozloff | "American Painting During the Cold War" | ||
| Leon Golub | "A Critique of Abstract Expressionism" | ||
| T.J. Clark | "A Defense of Abstract Expressionism" | ||
| Matthew S. Witkovsky | "Experience vs. Theory: Romare Bearden and Abstract Expressionism" | ||
| Meyer Schapiro | "Nature of Abstract Art" | ||
| Nancy Jachec | "Modernism, Enlightenment Values, and Clement Greenberg" | ||
| Patricia Hills | "1936: Meyer Schapiro, Art Front, and the Popular Front" | ||
| April J. Paul | "Byron Browne in the Thirties: The Battle for Abstract Art" | ||
| Susan C. Larsen | "The American Abstract Artists: A Documentary History 1936-1941" | ||
| Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt | "Art on the Political Front in America: From The Liberator to Art Front" | ||
| Gerald M. Monroe | "Art Front" | ||
| Gerald M. Monroe | "The Artists Union of New York" | ||
| Francis V. O'Connor | "The New Deal Art Projects in New York" | ||
Postmodernism |
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| Louis P. Masur | "How the Truth Gets Framed by the Camera" | ||
| Jacques Derrida | "Différance" | HTML | |
| Arthur Danto | After the End of Art, "Introduction" | ||
| Susan Sontag | "Against Interpretation" | ||