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English 172: Introduction to Visual Culture Spring 2010 Jefferson Hendricks English Department Centenary College of Louisiana |
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Texts and Syllabus Policies and Requirements Writing Resources for Students Web Resources for Visual Culture |
- Clarke, Graham. The Photograph. Oxford UP, 1997.
- Freeland, Cynthia. A Very Short Introduction to Art Theory. Oxford UP, 2007.
- Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. 2nd ed. Oxford UP, 2009.
Syllabus
(This schedule is subject to change; check back
before every class for updates)
Week One: January 12
Tuesday, January 12: Introduction
to Course
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking
- "Introduction"
- Chapter I: "Images, Power, and Politics"
- Keywords: "Introduction" and Chapter I: "Images, Power, and Politics"
- Key Theorists:
- Key Artists/Artworks:
- Weegee (Arthur Fellig) and his photograph "The First Murder"
- Emmett Till and the photograph of his open casket
- Rene Magritte and his painting "The Treachery of Images"
- Robert Frank and his photograph "Trolley--New Orleans, 1955"
- Leonardo da Vinci and his painting "Mona Lisa"
- "La Gioconda" (The Mona Lisa)
- Vincent Van Gogh and his painting "Irises"
- Dorothea Lange and her photograph "Migrant Mother"
- Andy Warhol and his print "Marilyn Diptych"
Week Two: Jan. 19
Tuesday, January 19:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking
- Chapter 2: "Viewers Make Meaning"
- Chapter 3: "Modernity: Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge"
- Keywords: Practices of Looking, Chapter 2: "Viewers Make Meaning"
- Key Artists/Artworks:
- Thomas Struth and his photograph "Hermitage 1, St. Petersburg"
- Marcel Duchamp and his readymade "Fountain"
- Fred Wilson and his installation "Mining the Museum: An Installation"
- Barbara Kruger and her collage "Your manias become science"
- Gordon Parks and his photograh "Ella Watson"
- Copper Greene collective and their poster "iRaq"
- Keywords: Practices of Looking, Chapter 3: "Modernity: Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge"
- Key Theorists:
- Key Artists/Artworks:
- Vladimir Tatlin and his architechtural model "Monument to the Third International"
- Diego Velázquez and his painting "Las Meninas"
- Jean-Léon Gérôme and his painting "The Bath"
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and his painting "La Grande Odalisque"
- Guerilla Girls and their poster "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?"
- Sylvia Sleigh and her painting "Philip Golub Reclining"
- Robert Mapplethorpe and his photograph "Arnold Schwarzenegger"
- Ana Mendieta and her earthwork "Silueta Works in Mexico"
- Catherine Opie and her photograph "Self Portrait/Cutting"
- Background Reading:
- "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" -- Laura Mulvey
- notes on Laura Mulvey's theory of the "the gaze"
- Notes on "The Gaze" -- Daniel Chandler
- Aesthetics Research Group Archive -- U. of Kent, Canterbury
Tuesday, January 26:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking
- Chapter 4: "Realism and Perspective: From Renaissance Painting to Digital Media"
- Chapter 5: "Visual Technologies, Image Reproductions, and the Copy"
- Keywords: Chapter 4: "Realism and Perspective: From Renaissance Painting to Digital Media"
- Key Theorists:
- Key Artists/Artworks:
- Julia Margaret Cameron and her photograph "Pomona" (Portrait of Alice Liddell)
- Dziga Vertov and his film Man With a Movie Camera
- Vladimir and Georgi Sternberg and their poster "Man With a Movie Camera"
- Sandro Botticelli and his painting "Cestello Annunciation"
- Andrea Mantegna and his painting "The Lamentation over the Dead Christ"
- Salvador Dali and his painting "Slave Market With the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire"
- Claude Monet and his painting "La Gare St. Lazarre"
- Pablo Picasso and his painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
- Jackson Pollock and his painting "Number 1, 1948"
- Mark Tansey and his painting "The Innocent Eye Test"
- Keywords: Chapter 5: "Visual Technologies, Image Reproductions, and the Copy"
- Key Theorists:
- Sergei Eisenstein and his theory of dialectical montage
- André Bazin and his theory of cinematographic realism
- Clive Bell and his theory of "significant form"
- Walter Benjamin and his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
- William J. Mitchell
- Key Artists/Artworks:
- Jacques-Henri Lartique and his photograph "Grand Prix of the Automobile Club of France"
- Eadweard Muybridge and his series of photographs "Woman, Kicking a Hat"
- Marcel Duchamp and his readymade "L.H.O.O.Q."
- John Heartfield and his photo-collage "Adolf as Superman: 'He Swallows Gold and Spits Out Tin-Plate'"
- Alberto Korda and his photo of Che Guevara entitled "Guerrillero Heroico"
- Sherrie Levine and his series of photographs "After Walker Evans"
- Henry Peach Robinson and his photograph "Fading Away"
- Chuck Close and his painting "Roy II"
Week Four: Feb 2
Tuesday, February 2:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking
- Chapter 6: "Media in Everyday Life"
- Chapter 7: "Advertising, Consumer Cultures, and Desire"
- Keywords: Chapter 6: "Media in Everyday Life"
- Key Theorists:
- Jean Baudrillard
- Marshall McLuhan
- Herbert Schiller
- John Fiske
- Guy Debord and his book Society of the Spectacle
- Theodor Adorno/Max Horkheimer and their theory of "the culture industry"
- Michael Warner and his theory of "a public"
- Jürgen Habermas and his theory of the public sphere
- Nancy Fraser and her theory of women's countersphere
- Benedict Anderson and his book Imagined Communities
- Key Artists/Artworks:
- Robert Raushenberg and his silkscreen "Retroactive I"
- Shepard Fairey and his silkscreen "Hope" (Barack Obama)
- Leni Riefenstahl and her film Triumph of the Will
- Spike Lee and his film When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
- Keywords: Chapter 7: "Advertising, Consumer Cultures, and Desire"
- Key Theorists:
- T. Jackson Lears and his theory of "the therapeutic ethos"
- Walter Benjamin and his Arcades Project
- Lizabeth Cohen and her theory of a "consumer's republic"
- Pierre Bourdieu and his theory of "cultural capital"
- Jacques Lacan and his theory of desire
- Stuart Ewen and his theory of the "commodity self"
- Kalle Lasn and his theory of "culture jamming"
- Naomi Klein and her book No Logo
- Key Artists/Artworks:
- Margaret Bourke White and her photograph "African American flood victims lined up at Red Cross relief station" [aka "Bread Line During the Louisville Flood, Kentucky 1937"]
- Andy Warhol and his silkscreen "Two Hundred Campbell's Soup Cans"
- Roy Lichentenstein and his print "The Refrigerator"
- John Everett Millais and his painting "Bubbles" [and the 1888 Pear Soap ad that uses Millais' painting]
- Hank Willis Thomas and his photographs "Branded Head" and "Priceless"
- Hans Haacke and his poster "The Right to Life"
Tuesday, February 9:
- Reading:
- Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking
- Chapter 8: "Postmodernism, Indie Media, and Popular Culture"
- Keywords: Chapter 8: "Postmodernism, Indie Media, and Popular Culture"
- Key Theorists:
- Jean Baudrillard
- Fredric Jameson and his theory of "the cultural logic of late capitalism"
- Jean Francois Lyotard
- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
- Bertolt Brecht and his concept of verfremdungseffekt (in English: "distancing effect")
- Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour and their book Learning from Las Vegas
- Charles Jencks
- Key Artists/Artworks:
- Jia Zhang-ke and his film The World
- Katsuhiro Otomo and his film Akira
- Ridley Scott and his film Bladerunner
- The Wachowski Brothers and their film trilogy The Matrix
- Cindy Sherman and her photographs Untitled Film Stills
- Nikki S. Lee and her work Projects
- Orlan
- Orlan -- official home page
- Sherrie Levine and her photograph "After Edward Weston #2"
- Jeff Wall and his photograph "A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)"
- Christian Boltanski and his installation "Reserves: The Purim Holiday"
- Philip Johnson and his AT&T Building (now the Sony Building), New York
- Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- Teddy Cruz and his designs for housing in Tijuana
[Mardi-Gras Break: Saturday, Feburary 13 to Sunday, Feb. 21]
Tuesday, February 23:
Tu March 16: Begin unit on "Photography as Visual Culture"
- mid-term take-home exam due Friday, February 26 by 2:00 pm in Jackson Hall 307
- Reading: Sturken and Cartwright, eds. Practices of Looking
- Chapter 9: "Scientific Looking, Looking at Science"
- Chapter 10: "The Global Flow of Visual Culture"
- Keywords: Chapter 9: "Scientific Looking, Looking at Science"
- Key Theorists:
- Nikolas Rose
- Auguste Comte
- John Beddoe and his book The Races of Man
- Sir Francis Galton and his book Hereditary Genius
- Michel Foucault and his book The Birth of the Clinic
- Donna Haraway and her "The Cyborg Manifesto"
- Key Artists/Artworks:
- Leonardo Da Vinci and his drawing "Vitruvian Man"
- Rembrandt and his painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp"
- Thomas Eakins and his painting "The Gross Clinic"
- Nancy Burson and her project Human Race Machine
- Keywords: Chapter 10: "The Global Flow of Visual Culture"
- Key Theorists:
- Seyla Benhabib
- Armand Mattelart and Ariel Dorfman and their book How to Read Donald Duck
- Arjun Appadurai
- Edward Said and his book Orientalism
- Hamid Naficy
- Key Artists:
Week Seven: March 2
Tuesday, March 2: Visiting Scholar: Cynthia Freeland in class - Reading: Cynthia Freeland, Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Week Eight: March 9
Tuesday, March 9: - Reading: Cynthia Freeland, Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Week Nine: March 16
Tu March 16: Begin unit on "Photography as Visual Culture"
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter 1: "What is a Photograph?" and Chapter 2: "How Do We Read a Photograph?"
- Key Words/People:
- photography
- performance art
- snapshot aesthetic
- vernacular photography
- environmental portrait
- fine art photography
- abjection
- Cindy Sherman
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- documentary photography
- candid photography
- street photography
- photojournalism
- Magnum photos
- rule of thirds
- golden ratio
- Images to Study:
- Cindy Sherman's photography -- Masters of Photography
- Cindy Sherman's photography -- Artcyclopedia.com
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Magnum Photos
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- National Gallery of Canada
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- AfterImage Gallery
- Henri-Cartier Bresson -- Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
- Tete a Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Smithsonian
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Artcyclopedia.com
- Background Reading:
- Analyzing a Photograph: A How-To Guide -- Julia Lesage, U. of Oregon
- Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs -- Nuovo Contemporary Art
- Reading Photographs -- Hans Durer, Soundscapes
- excerpts from criticism on Cindy Sherman -- Masters of Photography
- Cindy
Sherman page @ the Guggenheim
- bio-criticism
on Cindy Sherman -- Brain-Juice.com
- a Cindy Sherman page -- Amy Junod, Temple U.
- a Cindy Sherman page -- Profotos.com
- "Abject/Informe/Trauma -- Discourses on the Body in American Art of the Nineties (section 3 on Sherman) -- Jan-Ove Steihaug
- "The
Sherman Phenomena: The Image of Theory or a Foreclosure of
Dialectical Reasoning?" -- Nadine Lemmon, Part 2
- "Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman" (bio, essay, images) -- New York University
- interview with Cindy Sherman -- Betsy Berne, Tate magazine #5
- New York Times obituary for Cartier-Bresson
- "A Life in Pictures" [on Cartier-Bresson] -- The Guardian
- Cartier-Bresson
quotes on photography -- PhotographyQuotes.com
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PhotoSeminars.com
- "Cartier-Bresson's Decisive Moment" -- David Friend, The Digital Journalist
- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
- list of basic photography topics -- Wikipedia
Week Ten: March 23
Tuesday, March 23:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter 3: "Photography in the Nineteenth Century"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
- (William) Henry Fox Talbot
- Louis Daguere
- daguerreotype
- Roger Fenton
- Henry Peach Robinson
- Peter Henry Emerson
- Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)
- Mathew Brady
- Timothy O'Sullivan
- Carleton Watkins
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Pictorialism
- The Linked Ring
- Albumen Print
- Photogravure
- Images to Study:
- Henry Fox Talbot @ Masters of Photography
- Roger Fenton @ Masters of Photography
- Timothy O'Sullivan @ Masters of Photography
- Carleton Watkins @ Masters of Photography
- Eadweard Muybridge @ Masters of Photography
- In Praise of Pictorialism: Early Pictorialist Photography
- Background Reading:
- Albumen Photographs: History, Science, and Preservation
- Art of the Photogravure
- The First Photograph (by Niépce) -- Ransom Humanites Research Center, U. of Texas, Austin
- Pictorialism -- Robert Leggat, A History of Photography
- Pictorialism in America -- Lisa Hostetler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- International Pictorialism -- Lisa Hostetler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- photographic processes -- Victorian and Albert Museum
Tuesday, March 30
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph,
Chapter 4: "Landscape in Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- William Henry Jackson
- Hudson River School
- the sublime
- Landscape Art
- Ansel Adams
- Group f/64
- straight photography
- zone system
- Robert Adams
- New Topographics
- nature photography
- Images to Study:
- Ansel Adams -- Masters of Photography
- another
series of Ansel Adams photos -- Michael
Potter, Temple U.
- Robert Adams -- Masters of Photography
- images of landscape in paintings and photography -- USC
- Background Reading:
- excerpts from criticism on Ansel Adams -- Masters of Photography
- Ansel
Adams quotes on photography -- Photoquotes.com
- a short bio of Ansel Adams -- Jennifer Jankauskas
- a
very fine page on Ansel Adams with images, links, and a timeline
- an Ansel Adams timeline -- Michael Potter, Temple U.
- an extensive series of links to Ansel Adams images on the web -- Orazio Centaro
- "Celebrating 100 Years of Ansel Adams" -- Stephen Fox
- "Intimate
Nature: Ansel Adams and the Close View" --
Center for Creative
Photography
- "High Ideals" (a dissenting view of Ansel Adams) -- Malcolm Clark
- excerpts from criticism on Robert Adams -- Masters of Photography
- Robert
Adams bio and images -- Artnet.com
- "Landscape, Writing, and Photography" -- Sarah Hill, University of Auckland
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph,
Chapter 5: "The City in Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Alfred Steiglitz
- Georgia O'Keefe
- Camera Work
- Photo-Secession movement
- Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later known as 291 Gallery)
- Berenice Abbott
- Eugène Atget
- Brassai
- Street photography
- Images to Study:
- Alfred Steiglitz @ Masters of Photography
- Berenice Abbott @ Masters of Photography
- Helen Leavitt @ Masters of Photography
- Eugène Atget @ Masters of Photography
- Brassai @ Masters of Photography
- images of city life in paintings and photography -- USC
- Background Reading:
- Alfred Stieglitz -- Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
- Alfred Stieglitz -- Robert Leggat, A History of Photography
- Alfred Stieglitz -- American Masters, PBS
- Alfred Stieglitz -- The Getty Museum
- Berenice Abbott -- Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
- Berenice Abbott, "Changing New York, 1935-1938" -- New York Public Library
- Berenice Abbott -- Artcyclopedia
- Eugene Atget -- Artcyclopedia
- Brassai -- Artcyclopedia
Week Twelve: April 6
Tuesday, April 6:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter 6: "The
Portrait in Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Nadar
- David Octavious Hill
- Robert Adamson
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- August Sander
- Bill Brandt
- Yousuf Karsh
- Richard Avedon
- Images to Study:
- Nadar
- Hill and Adamson
- Julia Margaret Cameron
- August Sander
- Bill Brandt
- Yousuf Karsh
- Richard Avedon, images from In the American West
- Richard Avedon official page
- Background Reading:
- "Something from Nothing: Reading Things into Portrait Photographs" -- William McEwen
- How to Read a Portrait -- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (pdf file)
- short analyses of famous portraits (including Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Still #53) -- "Portrait of the Week" series, The Guardian Unlimited
- Hill and Adamson Collection -- U. of Glascow
- images of the portrait in painting and photography -- USC
- images of self-portraits in painting and photography -- USC
Tuesday, April 13:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph,
Chapter 7: "The Body in
Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Images to Study:
- E. J. Bellocq
- Hans Bellmer
- Edward Weston
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
- Robert Mapplethorpe -- artnet.com
- Robert Mapplethorpe -- Orazio Centaro
- Background Reading:
- "Hans Bellmer in The Art Institute of Chicago: The Wandering Libido and the Hysterical Body" -- Sue Taylor, U. of Chicago
- excerpts from criticism on Mapplethorpe -- Masters of Photography
- Mapplethorpe
page @ the Guggenheim
- bio-criticism
of Robert Mapplethorpe -- Brain-Juice.com
- Robert Mapplethorpe -- Jennifer Jankauskas
- brief critique of a Mapplethorpe photograph of Patti Smith -- The Guardian
- images of the human figure in painting and photography -- USC
Week Fourteen: April 20
Tuesday, April 20:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter 8: "Documentary Photography"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Jacob Riis
- How the Other Half Lives (1890)
- Lewis Hine
- Walker Evans
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
- Dorothea Lange
- "Migrant Mother" (1936) -- (click on first image for enlarged version)
- Farm Security Administration (FSA)
- Images to Study:
- Background Reading:
- "(Lewis Hine) The History Place -- "Child Labor in America, 1908-1912"
- Walker Evans bio @ The Metropolitan Museum
- Walker
Evans: Photographer -- Hilton Kramer, artnet.com
- PBS
interview about Walker Evans's photography
- "Walker Evans Revolutionizes Documentary Photography" -- Landon Nordeman
- "The
Passion of Walker Evans" -- Daniel Mark Epstein, New Criterion
- "Story of a Photographic
Session: Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother'"
- American from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA - OWI, 1935-45
- America from
the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photograhs from the
FSA - OWI, 1935-45
- "Every Picture Tells a Story: Documentary Photography and the Great Depression"
- New Frontiers in American Documentary Film -- Nicole Huffman
Week Fifteen: April 27
Tuesday, April 27:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter
9:
"The Photograph as Fine Art"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Images to Study:
- Background Reading:
- "Imogen
Cunningham: Beginnings" -- Anita Ventura Mozley
- "Imogen Cunningham: The Modernist Years" -- Richard Lorenz
- Edward Weston bio -- PhotoSeminars.com
- Edward Weston bio -- from A World History of Photography
Tuesday, May 4:
- Reading:
- Clarke, The Photograph, Chapter 10: "The Photograph Manipulated" and Chapter 11: " The Cabinet of Infinite Curiosities"
- Keywords/Key People:
- photomontage
- Hannach Höch
- John Heartfield
- Man Ray
- Barbara Kruger
- Loretta Lux
- photoshopping
- Paul Outerbridge
- Clarence John Laughlin
- Diane Arbus
- Joel Peter Witkin
- Surrealism in photography
- Images to Study:
- Photomontages of Hannach Höch
- John Heartfield's photomontages
- Man Ray @ Artcyclopedia
- Barbara Kruger @ Artcyclopedia
- Loretta Lux @ Yossi Millo Gallery
- Loretta Lux @ The Guggenheim
- Loretta Lux home page
- Paul Outerbridge @ Masters of Photography
- Clarence John Laughlin @ Masters of Photography
- Diane Arbus photography @ Fine Art Photography Masters
- "Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967"
- David Segal, "Double Exposure," Washington Post
- Joel Peter Witkin -- (click on pictures)
- Joel Peter Witkin
- Joel Peter Witkin @ Art Forum.org
- Background Reading:
- Cut and Paste: A History of Photomontage
- John Heartfield -- Towson U.
- Political Photomontage in Europe -- Peter Marshall, About.com
- "Clarence, Clarence, Clarence" -- Donald Colin
- Clarence John Laughlin bio -- from Encyclopedia of Photography
- page on Clarence John Laughlin
- excerpts from criticism on Diane Arbus -- Masters of Photography
- Diane Arbus -- Daniel Oppenheimer, Jewish Virtual Library
- bio-criticism of Diane Arbus (with good notes on her most important monographs) -- Brain-Juice.com
- a Diane
Arbus page -- ArtandCulture.com
- Diane
Arbus quotes on photography -- Photoquotes.com
- "The
Photography of Diane Arbus" -- Sara Ironman, Temple U.
- "'We're All Born Naked - and All the Rest is Drag': On the Photography of Diane Arbus" -- John Osborne
- "Retinal Detachment" (on Diane Arbus's photography) -- Bernard Cooper
- Joel Peter Witkin -- Cintra Wilson, Salon.com
- review of Witkin's opening at the Fraenkel Gallery -- Christa Palmer
- Joel Peter Witkin at the Edelman Gallery
- Joel Peter Witkin -- Stefan Beyst
- Background Reading:
- A Closer Look at the Mona Lisa -- The Louvre, Paris
- Photographic Truth in the Digital Era
- Photo Tampering Throughout History
- Landscapes of Capital -- Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, and Noah Kersey
- ColorBay.com --
- Edward Burne-Jones and his painting "The Depths of the Sea"
- Calvin Klein
- Background Reading:
- paintings of Edward Burne-Jones -- History of Art
- paintings of Edward Burne-Jones -- Artcyclopedia
- unofficial Calvin Klein ads archive -- David Toccafondi, U. of Pennsylvania
- Leonardo da Vinci -- Artcyclopedia
- "Girl with a Pearl Earring" -- Jan Vermeer
- Essential Vermeer Website -- Jonathan Janson
- The Girl With a Pearl Earring: An In-Depth Study -- Jonathan Janson
- "Olympia" -- Edouard Manet
- Images -- Herb Ritts
- Herb Ritts Photography -- Kasia Dybowska, Trinity College, CN
- Sally Mann page @ PBS Art: 21 (includes images and interview)
- "Dial "P" for Panties: Narrative Photography in the 1990s" -- Lucy Soutter, Afterimage
- "Politicizing
Puberty: The Zoning of Child Sexuality in Art, Advertising, and
the American Household" -- a
forum on children and sexuality
-- Nerve.com (and Sally
Mann's response)
- "Uncanny Resemblances: Sally Mann's Immediate Family" -- Jane Fletcher
- "Sally
Mann" (review of Mother Land) -- David Levi
Strauss, Art Forum
- review of Anne Higonnet's book Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood -- Calvin Bedient, Art in America
- elements of design/elements of art
- principles of design/principles of art
- Sally Mann
- Notes on "The Gaze" -- Daniel Chandler
- Johannes Vermeer -- Wikipedia
- Edouard Manet -- Wikipedia
- Herb Ritts -- Wikipedia
- Images to Study:
- Sally Mann images
- Visual Perception -- Daniel Chandler
- "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" -- Walter Benjamin
- "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" -- Wikipedia
- Keywords/Key people: from Artlex and Wikipedia
- Images to Study:
- (review images previously listed)
- Background Reading:
- "Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture" -- special issue on Benjamin @ Transformations
- Images to Study:
- "Jeans" (Bijou Phillips, Kate Moss) -- Calvin Klein
- "Be" (Vince Gallo) -- Calvin Klein
- "Jeans" (Bruce Weber) -- Calvin Klein
- Background Reading:
- bio and interview with Calvin Klein -- (1984)
- Gender Ads.com -- Scott Lukas
- Sex in Advertising -- Tom Reichert, U. of Georgia
- Texas Advertising links -- U. of Texas, Austin: Department of Advertising
- "Toward a Critical Theory of Advertising" -- John Harms and Douglas Kellner, Illuminations
- "Advertising and the Voice of Authority - Men Have it, Women Don't" -- Rebecca Zarchikoff
- "on Publicity and Consumer Culture" -- from John Berger's Ways of Seeing
- Keywords/Key People:
- Images to Study:
- music videos from Madonna's Immaculate Collection (in class)
- 1992 photos of Madonna from Vanity Fair and Vogue -- photography by Steven Meisel @ Retro Crush
- Background Readings:
- "Madonna's Revenge" -- Annalee Newitz
- Beautiful Madonna -- an encyclopedic fan site filled with images, lyrics, career info
- illustrations for John Berger's Ways of Seeing
- Michael Ray Charles images and info @ PBS Art:21
- Michael Ray Charles: Paintings -- Cheryl Brutvan, Albright-Knox Gallery
- Keywords/Key People:
- postmodernism
- postmodernism -- Wikipedia
- popular culture
- conceptual art
- found art (the readymade)
- assemblage
- appropriation -- Wikipedia
- Dada
- Surrealism
- Marcel Duchamp
- Sherrie Levine
- Michael Ray Charles
- Images to Study:
- music videos from Madonna's Immaculate Collection (in class)
- Marcel Duchamp, "Fountain"
- "Fountain" by Duchamp
- Sherrie Levine, "Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp: A.P.)"
- "After Alexander Rodchenko #1-12" -- Sherrie Levine @ The Guggenheim
- Sherrie Levine, "Newborn"
- Michael Ray
Charles images @ Artnet.com
- Michael Ray Charles images and info @ PBS Art:21
- "The Three Graces" -- Michael Ray Charles
- Background Readings:
- Unmaking the Museum: Marcel Duchamp's Readymades in Context -- Kristina Seekamp, Binghampton U., State U. of New York
- Sherrie
Levine -- Artnotart.com
- AfterSherrieLevine.com
- Innocent or Guilty? Deciding thte Fate of Sherrie Levine -- Artjunction.org
- African-American History Through the Arts: Michael Ray Charles
- "Painting Race" -- Rebecca S. Cohen, The Austin Chronicle
- "The Art of Darkness" -- Shaila Dewan, Houston Press
- Michael Ray Charles @ Albright-Knox Gallery
- American Popular Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis -- American Studies Program, Washington State U.
- Background Reading:
- Images from Science -- R.I.T.
- Sombrero Galaxy -- Hubble telescope
- Spiral Galzxy NGC 3370 -- Hubble telescope
- Fartherest known galaxy -- Hubble telescope
- DNA and DNA Protein Complexes
- Virus & Bacteriophage
- "Landscapes of Capital: Representing Time, Space, & Globalization in Corporate Advertising" -- Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, Noah Kersey
Study Guide
- Take Home Exam:
- Write a 350-500 word essay on each of the following three questions that will be posted below the week of the exam. Each essay should have a strong thesis that guides a clear argument that's supported by evidence and examples from our readings and from images that we've studied (or that you've studied on your own). I'm interested in your thinking and your arguments, but if you summarize or quote from another's work to support your argument, be sure to give them credit. (100 points total; each essay is worth 33 points). Be sure to write the honor code and sign your name.
- These three essays are to be typed/word-processed and presented in MLA format.
- Essay # 1: What does it mean to be an "ideological subject" (and how does it affect your consumption of visual culture)?
- Essay # 2: In Madonna’s videos is she “in control” of the gaze or a victim of it?
- Essay # 3: How would you characterize Calvin Klein’s view of the relationship of art to commerce as demonstrated by his ads?
- Section 2: Turn in take-home portion of exam on The Photograh to Ms. Palmer, Jackson Hall 304, by 2:00 pm on Wednesday, April 9
- Take Home Exam:
- Write a 350-500 word essay on two (your choice) of the following topics (each essay should be about two pages typed, for a total of about 4 pages). Each essay should have a strong thesis that guides a clear argument that's supported by evidence and examples. I'm interested in your thinking and your arguments, but if you summarize or quote from another's work to support your argument, be sure to give them credit.
- Question #1: Compare and contrast Ansel Adams and
Robert Adams as landscape photographers.
- Question #2: Compare and contrast the work of Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe in terms of its treatment of the body and/or portraiture.
- Question #3: Compare and contrast the work of any two photographers we've studied this semester (other than the four mentioned in questions 1 and 2 above) in terms of ideas of the grotesque/transgressive/abject/surreal.
Th Apr 3: Exam on Photography unit
Section 1: in class on Thursday, April 3: 20 short answer items taken from 1) the text, images, and glossary of The Photograph, 2) online keywords/key people sections, 3) the in-class lectures and discussions
- Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics, Chapter 1: "Introduction to Film Studies"
- Classical Hollywood Cinema -- Wikipedia
- Keywords/Key People:
- Viewing in class:
- "Like a Prayer" (Music Video: Dir. Mary Lambert; Starring Madonna)
- Background Reading:
- Taking Notes on Classroom Screenings -- Marianna Martin, Bryn Mawr College
- Writing About Film -- Dartmouth College
- Film Analysis Guide -- Yale Film Studies
- Motion Picture terminology -- Wikipedia
- The Seventh Art : Glossary of Film Terms
- IFC Film School: Multimedia Glossary of Film Terms
for Wednesday, April 9:
- Section 2: Turn in take-home portion of exam on The Photograh to Ms. Palmer, Jackson Hall 304, by 2:00 pm on Wednesday, April 9
- Take Home Exam:
- Write a 350-500 word essay on two (your choice) of the following topics (each essay should be about two pages typed, for a total of about 4 pages). Each essay should have a strong thesis that guides a clear argument that's supported by evidence and examples. I'm interested in your thinking and your arguments, but if you summarize or quote from another's work to support your argument, be sure to give them credit.
- Question #1: Compare and contrast Ansel Adams and
Robert Adams as landscape photographers.
- Question #2: Compare and contrast the work of Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe in terms of its treatment of the body and/or portraiture.
- Question #3: Compare and contrast the work of any two photographers we've studied this semester (other than the four mentioned in questions 1 and 2 above) in terms of ideas of the grotesque/transgressive/abject/surreal.
Th Apr 10:
- Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics, Chapter 2: "The Language of Film"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Charlie Chaplin -- Wikipedia
- The Tramp (aka "The Little Tramp)
- shot -- Wikipedia
- scene -- Wikipedia
- sequence -- Wikipedia
- film editing -- Wikipedia
- cutting on action -- Wikipedia
- intellectual montage -- Wikipedia
- jump cut -- Wikipedia
- Viewing in class:
- Charlie Chaplin,
- Background Reading:
- Charlie Chaplin -- Ann Douglas, Time
- "The Gag Reflex" -- David Cairns, Senses of Cinema
- Charlie Chaplin: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library
- Taking Notes on Classroom Screenings -- Marianna Martin, Bryn Mawr College
- Writing About Film -- Dartmouth College
- Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics, Chapter 2: "The Language of Film"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Buster Keaton -- Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton, "Cops"
- shot -- Wikipedia
- scene -- Wikipedia
- sequence -- Wikipedia
- film editing -- Wikipedia
- cutting on action -- Wikipedia
- intellectual montage -- Wikipedia
- jump cut -- Wikipedia
- Viewing in class:
- Buster Keaton, "Cops"
- Background Reading:
- Buster Keaton -- Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton -- Dan Callahan, Senses of Cinema
- Buster Keaton: A Selected Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library
- Taking Notes on Classroom Screenings -- Marianna Martin, Bryn Mawr College
- Writing About Film -- Dartmouth College
- Reading:
- continue Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics, Chapter 3: "The History of Film"
- Beckett on Film project
- Beckett on Film -- Wikipedia
- Act Without Words II -- Wikipedia
- Breath -- Wikipedia
- Keywords/Key People:
- Samuel Beckett -- Wikipedia
- Waiting for Godot -- Wikipedia
- mime -- Wikipedia
- Damien Hirst
- Viewing in class:
- Act Without Words II
- Breath
- directed by Damien Hirst
- Reading:
- Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics, Chapter 4: "The Production and Exhibition of Film"
- Existentialism -- Wikipedia
- Theatre of the Absurd -- Wikipedia
- Keywords/Key People:
- David Mamet -- Wikipedia
- Come and Go -- Wikipedia
- Catastrophe -- Wikipedia
- Viewing in class:
- Come and Go
- Catastrophe
- directed by David Mamet
- Reading:
- Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics, Chapter 5: "The Reception of Film"
- Keywords/Key People:
- Absurdism -- Wikipedia
- Anthony Minghella
- Viewing in class:
- Play
- directed by Anthony Minghella
Evaluations and Final Review
- Reading:
- Villarejo, Film Studies: The Basics, Chapter 6: "The Future of Film"
- Keywords/Key People:
- avant-garde -- Wikipedia
- experimental film -- Wikipedia
- surrealism -- Wikipedia
- collage -- Wikipedia
- Edwin S. Porter -- Wikipedia
- Vitagraph studios -- Wikipedia
- Viewing in class:
- Background Reading:
Part I: The short answer exam will be twenty ids/terms/definitions/images/people, etc. that we've studied during the unit on film. The exam is only on the film unit. (The exam format will be exactly like the first two unit exams).
Part II: You will need to turn in a 500-word essay during the exam period in which you analyze a film of your choice. You may choose a film from any era, genre, length, etc. In the essay you should demonstrate your ability to analyze film as a "visual art"; pay close attention to the way the film works as a visual object. It's less necessary in this essay to talk about the film as a narrative; rather, how does it construct its meaning through its accumulation of images? Your essay should reflect what you've been reading and thinking about how film works as a visual medium.