December 8, 2010 at 3:06pm
Proposed meetings for spring semester 2011
8pm, Stevens Art Building lounge
February 3
Feburary 17
March 17
March 31
October 29, 2010 at 5:02pm
for Thursday, November 4
Mel Bochner, Measurement Room[Installation views], 1969, installed at the Museum of Modern Art, 2009. Photo: 16mile
The first chapter from One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity, by Miwon Kwon. Genealogy of Site.pdf
The whole book is great - perhaps we’ll read the whole thing if there is sufficient interest…this chapter looks at a series of works which began to question the relationship between artwork and site.
October 14, 2010 at 12:26pm
for October 21 - Minimalism
Three texts on minimalism - one essay by the artist Donald Judd, a rather scathing critique by Michael Fried, and a short response to Fried by Robert Smithson.
It might be most helpful to read them in the above order and we may want to stretch the conversation over two meetings…
Here is a download link to pdfs of all three texts.
A defining moment for minimalism: Robert Morris Installation at the Green Gallery, 1963.
September 20, 2010 at 4:35pm
for Sept 30
Walter Benjamin’s ‘Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (1936). There are plenty of copies of this text online and here is a link to one such copy, translated to English in the 1960’s I believe. If you find the ‘preface’ section frustrating, take heart, it slows down from there.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
4:06pm
proposed fall ‘10 meetings
-Sept 30
-Oct 21
-Nov 4
8 pm, Stevens Art Building, seminar room.
Questions? Email Ryan [dot] Thompson [at] Houghton [dot] edu
September 18, 2010 at 10:26pm
10:20pm
