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POST-WAR BRITISH & AMERICAN ART
This is a graduate seminar in the Critical and Cultural Theory MA Programme The seminar offers a selected survey of developments in British and American Art from the Post-War period. There will also be a focus on early avant-garde movements, such as Vorticism in Britain and Dada in the USA, following the European influences of Cubism, Futurism and Dada. Special attention will also be given to selected theoretical writings and art criticism. *REQUIRED READING Foster, Krauss, Bois & Buchloh, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004) Hal Foster (ed.) The Anti-Aesthetic (NY: New Press, 1983) Renato Poggioli, The Theory of the Avant-Garde (1968) Peter Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde (1974) *ASSESSMENT Attendance; 5 x 300-word report; 1 essay of 3,000 words due 10 June. Essays must include full bibliographical references (footnotes) for all works cited or paraphrased. Emphasis will be placed on the component of original research, and students are advised not to use Web sources in place of adequately researching texts available in print. The topic of the essay is: IS THE INSTITUTIONALISATION OF THE AVANT-GARDE INEVITABLE? Essays should engage with an artist’s (theorist's) or group of artist's (theorist's) work, along with detailed discussion of (a) selected critical or theoretical text(s) relevant to the topic. *SCHEDULE 20.2: Avantgardism 27.2: Dada, Surrealism 6.2: Abstract Expressionism 13.2: Neo-Dada & Pop 20.2: Neo-Dada & Pop 27.3: Minimalism & Conceptual Art 3.4: Fluxus & Media Art 10.4: Digital & Cybernetic Art 17.4: Report: "Psychoanalysis in Modernism & as Method" (Art Since 1900) 24.4 Report: "The Social History of Art: Models & Concepts" (Art Since 1900) 1.5 Report: "Formalism & Structuralism" (Art Since 1900) 8.5 Report: "Poststructuralism & Deconstruction" (Art Since 1900) 15.5 Report: "Forward" by Jochen Schulte-Sasse, to Peter Burger, Theory of the Avant-Garde (1974) *TOPICS/RECOMMENDED READINGS PROBLEMS OF THE AVANTGARDE Leon Trotsky & Andre Breton, "Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art" (1938) (https://www.generation-online.org/c/fcsurrealism1.htm) Jean-Francois Lyotard, "Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable" (The Inhuman) Roland Barthes, "Rhetoric of the Image" (The Responsibility of Forms) Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital (chap. 15) Clement Greenberg, 'Avant-Garde and Kitsch' (MOODLE) DADA / SURREALISM Man Ray, Duchamp, "New York Dada) (https://monoskop.org/New_York_Dada) A. Murjian, "Dada City: New York’s Contribution to a European Movement" (https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/new-york-dada-20th-century-cultural-capital-1202673053/) Thierry de Duve, "Kant After Duchamp" Lionel Abel, "The Surrealists in New York" (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/lionel-abel-2/the-surrealists-in-new-york/) Martica Sawin, "Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School" Jean-Francois Lyotard, "The Sublime & the Avant-Garde" (The Inhuman) AB EX Roland Barthes, "Is Painting a Language?" (The Responsibility of Forms) Clement Greenberg, 'American Type Painting' (MOODLE) Harold Rosenberg, 'American Action Painters' (MOODLE) Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious (chap. 6), on Pollock, Twombly, Warhol et al. Roland Barthes, "Cy Twombly: Works on Paper" (The Responsibility of Forms) MINIMALISM Michael Fried, "Art and Objecthood" (MOODLE) Mel Bochner, "Serial Art" (MOODLE) Robert Morris, "Notes on Sculpture" (MOODLE) NEO-DADA Hal Foster, “What's Neo- About the Neo-Avant-Garde https://monoskop.org/images/1/1f/Foster_Hal_1994_Whats_Neo_about_the_Neo-Avant-Garde.pdf Branden W. Joseph, "Robert Rauschenberg" (October Files) (MOODLE) Graham Witham, "The Independent Group at the ICA" (via researchgate) POP ART Annette Michelson, "Andy Warhol" (October Files) (MOODLE) Lawrence Alloway, "Topics in American Art" (MOODLE) Barbara Rose, "ABC Art" (MOODLE) Hal Foster, "Recodings" (MOODLE) SITE SPECIFIC Gordon Matta-Clark: "Somewhere Outside the Law" https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/36320/1/Alliez-E-36320-AAM.pdf "Gordon Matta-Clark and the Politics of Shared Space" https://placesjournal.org/article/gordon-matta-clark-spacism/ Robert Smithson, "Collectd Writings" (https://monoskop.org/images/b/bd/Smithson_Robert_Collected_Writings_no_OCR.pdf) Douglas Crimp, "On the Museum's Ruins" CONCEPTUALISM Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson (eds.), "Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology" Sol LeWitt, "Sentences on Conceptual Art": https://monoskop.org/images/3/3d/LeWitt_Sol_1969_1999_Sentences_on_Conceptual_Art.pdf Alex Albero, "Inside the White Box" (MOODLE) Harold Rosenberg, "Defining Art" (MOODLE) John Cage, "An Autobiographical Statement" (MOODLE) Toby Mussman, "Literalness and the Infinite" (MOODLE) "Endless Constellations: On 'Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979'" https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/endless-constellations-on-women-in-concrete-poetry-1959-1979/ CYBERNETIC / DIGITAL / VIRTUAL Jean Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra" (MOODLE) Jasia Reichardt, "Cybernetic Serendipity" (https://monoskop.org/Cybernetic_Serendipity) GENERAL Brian Wallis (ed), "Blasted Allegories" (Writings by Contemporary Artists) Hal Foster (ed.), "Vision & Visuality" Hal Foster (ed.), "Discussions in Contemporary Culture" *MEMORY OF THE WORLD / CRITICAL BOOKS https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/ *MONOSKOP.ORG *UBU.COM Last update: Armand Louis, Ph.D. (20.03.2025)
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SCHEDULE 1: Avantgardism 2: Dada, Surrealism 3: Abstract Expressionism 4: Neo-Dada 5: Pop Art 6: Minimalism 7: Conceptual Art 8: Digital/Cybernetic Art Last update: Armand Louis, Ph.D. (19.02.2024)
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