This is a graduate seminar in the Critical and Cultural Theory MA Programme
Tues 17:30 (room 111)
*NB seminars will begin 21 February.
**NB there will be no seminars in May
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)
Renato Poggioli, The Theory of the Avant-Garde
Peter Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde.
ASSESSMENT
One essay, of 2,500 words due 8 June. Essays must be typed, double-spaced, with a minimum 3cm left-hand margin. Essays must include full bibliographical references (footnotes) for all works cited or paraphrased (preferably in accordance with the MLA style, e.g. http://webster.commnet.edu/mla.htm). 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. Deadline for submission of essays is 8 June. The topic of the essay is: IS THE INSTITUTIONALISATION OF THE AVANT-GARDE INEVITABLE? Essays should include a general overview of 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.
Literatura - angličtina
Poslední úprava: Louis Armand, Ph.D. (13.04.2021)
POST-WAR BRITISH & AMERICAN ART
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 Branden W. Joseph, "Robert Rauschenberg" (October Files) (MOODLE)
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)
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' + 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)
