Theory in Art schedule -- ez-print version

This schedule will be followed as closely as possible. If changes need to be made, they will be announced in class. Missing class is not a valid excuse for being unaware of changes to the schedule. Additional suggested reading assignments and responsibility for leading discussion and making presentations will be announced in class. Students should set aside a minimum of three hours per week outside of class time to complete reading assignments and integrate notes from the readings into their lecture notes.

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date

lecture topic, tests, project due dates

reading assignments

January 10

Survey

Introduction to the Course; Survey

Introduction/Explanation of course. Discussion of relative "meatiness" & evaluative strategy.

Adams, Preface & Chapter 1, What is Art?

POMO preface & Chapter 1, (note glossary, timeline in back too!)

ASSIGNMENT FOR 1-24

January 17

No Class (MLK day)

 

January 24

WHAT IS ART???


presentation guidelines

project guidelines

Adams, Chapter 2, Formalism & Style

POMO chapter 1

ASSIGNMENT FOR 1-31

January 31

formalism handout

FORMALISM & STYLE

discussion leader: Menon

 

Adams, Chapter 3, Iconography

POMO chapter 2 & 3

 

ASSIGNMENT FOR 2-7

February 7

ICONOGRAPHY

discussion leader: Clare O'Brien

NOTE: IN ADDITION TO THE ASSIGNMENT POSTED FOR NEXT WEEK, YOU NEED TO TURN IN A BIO AND ARTIST STATEMENT!!!

Adams, Chapter 6, Biography & Autobiography

POMO chapters 4 (Baudrillard) & 6

 

ASSIGNMENT FOR 2-14 (given in class)

February 14

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

discussion leader: Barb Smith

Professional Practices (artists's bios, artists' statements, c.v.s) (E.K. Menon)

NOTE: YOUR DRAFT BIO AND ARTIST STATEMENT IS DUE TODAY!!!

Adams, Chapter 4, Contextual Approaches I (Marxism/Cultural Studies )

POMO chapters 4, 7 (p. 151-52 esp.)& 8 ( start on p. 173)

ASSIGNMENT FOR 2-21 (given in class)

February 21

MARXISM & CULTURAL STUDIES

discussion leader: Whitney Korstange

http://adbusters.org/home/

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/

Adams, Chapter 9, Psychoanalysis I (Freud)

POMO chaptesr 6 & 7

 

ASSIGNMENT FOR 2-28 (given in class)

February 28

PSYCHOANALYSIS: FREUD

discussion leaders: Angela Vinson, Deepa Sharma

Adams, Chapter 7, Semiotics I (Structuralism and Poststructuralism)

POMO chapter 5, 8

 

ASSIGNMENT FOR 3-7

March 7

STRUCTURALISM & POSTSTRUCTURALISM

discussion leaders: Ben Mepham (Structuralism); Michael Chi (Post-Structuralism)

 

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html

http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/SEMIOTER.html

http://atheism.about.com/library/glossary/aesthetics/bldef_semiotics.htm

http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/rhethtml/signifiers/sigsave.html

http://www.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/sonesson/pict_sem_1.html

 

Adams, Chapter 8, Semiotics II (Deconstruction )

POMO chapter 5, 8

 

ASSIGNMENT FOR 3-21

March 14

 

No Class (Spring Break)

 

March 21

SCREENING OF KOYAANISQUATSI

ASSIGNMENT FOR 3-28

Adams chapter 8
Pomo chapter 5 (from page 101 to the end)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction

go to this website and read up about deconstruction and click on the words that you don't quite understand. feel free to visit some of the websites listed at the bottom of the page in order to understand some of the concepts.

 

March 28

see assignment above under March 21!!!

 

DECONSTRUCTION

discussion leaders: Shahzadi Israr , Lindsay Jones

ASSIGNMENT FOR 4-4

Adams, Chapter 10, Psychoanalysis II (Winnicott and Lacan)

POMO chapter 7

 

April 4

project guidelines (reminder)

PSYCHOANALYSIS: WINNICOT & LACAN

discussion leaders: Amy Dowell, Beth Dowell

 

ASSIGNMENT FOR 4-7

Adams, Chapter 11, Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis (Roger Fry and Roland Barthes)

POMO chapter 7

 

April 7

AESTHETICS & PSYCHOANALYSIS

discussion leader: Brian Barr, Ryan Parker

ASSIGNMENT FOR 4-18

Adams, Chapter 5, Contextual Approaches II Feminism

POMO chapter 6

 

April 18

FEMINISM

discussion leader: Natalie Horne

 

April 28

Videos; Professional Practices, continued. Final Papers Due  

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