Fwd: Summer/Course Reading List

READINGS

Group 1 (what art is, and what art does)

Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation, 1964

Chapter 4 of Daniel Chandler's Semiotics: the Basics: Challenging the Literal, 2002
for PDF, e-mail Nathan and Kim
Full book here

Elizabeth Grosz's Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth, 2006
for PDF, e-mail Kim and Nathan

Interview with Agnes Martin (20 minute video), 1997



Group 2 (the relationship between you and your audience and society at large)

Roland Barthe's Death of the Author from Image, Music, Text, 1977

Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936

Claire Bishop Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics, in October (journal), Fall 2004

Mark Byrne, How Marina Abramovic's Red-Velvet Rope at MoMA Works, May 24, 2010

Slavoj Zizek's writing on Rumsfeld and Unknown Knowns, 2009

Erica Goode, Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss, January 18, 2000

Zizek on Crossdressing to the Sound of Music, (2 ½ minute video and also text), February 26, 2010

Sound of Music/ Antwerp Station, (4 minute video), March 23, 2009

Frontline: Digital Nation (1 hour long video), February 2010



Group 3 (the contemporary art world you are about to enter)

Jack Burgess explains Contemporary Art (4 minute video), 2010

Dave Hickey on The Birth of the Big, Beautiful Art Market, from Air Guitar, 1997
for PDF, e-mail Kim and Nathan

Roberta Smith, Who Needs a White Cube These Days?, January 2006

Christine Mehring, Emerging market: Christine Mehring on the birth of the contemporary art fair, ArtForum, April, 2008

Roberta Smith, A New Boss, and a Jolt of Real-Life Experience, January 2010

Roberta Smith, Anti-Mainstream Museum's Mainstream Show

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