CURRICULUM KUN 2070/ 4070 ART 1950-2000
The mandatory reading list is about 1060 pages long and refers to books and a compendium publication (KUNST 1950-2000 I-VII, Unipub) that should be available at the Akademika bookstore. As you will discover, the reading list and the compendium include a number of important texts that are not mandatory but of high relevance to all students who wish to go deeper into the subjects. This applies in particular to MA students who write their dissertation on postwar art or BA students planning a future MA degree on this topic. The reading list below shows which texts are relevant for each lecture. Titles marked * will be found in the compendium KUNST 1950-2000 I-VII.
GENERAL LITERATURE /TEXTBOOKS
Mandatory:
Crow, Thomas: The Rise of the Sixties, 7-192
Foster, Hal: The Return of the Real, the MIT Press, 1996 35 -169, chapters 2-5
Art in Theory 1900-1910 An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Ed. Charles Harrison & Paul Wood, Blackwell Publishers 1992. (AiT in the reading list)
Brun, Hans Jacob: "Etterkrigstid" in Norges Malerkunst, vol. 2 (Utsolgt fra forlaget).
Optional:
Krauss, Rosalind, Passages in Modern Sculpture, MIT Press 1977, particularly chapters 3, 5 and 7
Krauss Rosalind, The Originality of the Avant-garde and other Modernist Myths, MIT Press, 1985
1. INTRODUCTION
Mandatory:
Crow, Thomas (1996): The Rise of the Sixties, 1996, 7-192
Habermas, Jürgen: “Modernity” - An Incomplete Project” (1980) AiT:1000-1008
Lyotard, Jean Francois: ”What Is Postmodernism?” (1982) AiT:1008-1015
Greenberg, Clement:
“Avant-garde and Kitsch” (1939), AiT: 529-540
“Towards a Newer Laocoon” (1940), AiT: 554-560
“Modernist Painting” (1961), AiT: 754-760
Adorno, Theodor: From ”Commitment” (1962), AiT: 760-764
Fried, Michael, ”Three American Painters” (1965), AiT 769-775
2. JACKSON POLLOCK
Mandatory:
*Clark, T.J., ”The Unhappy Consciousness”, in Farewell to an Idea. Episodes from a History of Modernism, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, 299-369
* Krauss, Rosalind, ”Jackson Pollock’s Agency”, in Gaehtgens, Thomas W. (ed.) Künstlerischer Austtausch. Akten des XXVIII. Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte Berlin, July 1992, vol. II, 329-338
Optional:
*Kaprow, Allan, ”The Legacy of Jackson Pollock”, in Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 1-9
*Jones, Amelia, ”The ’Pollockian Performative’ and the Revision of the Modernist Subject”, in Body Art. Performing the Subject, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 53-77
* Rosenberg, Harold, ”The American Action Painters” (1952), in The Tradition of the New, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965 (1959), 23-29
3. MARCEL DUCHAMP
Mandatory:
*Jones, Amelia, “Preface” in Postmodernism and the Engendering of Marcel Duchamp, xi-xviii + 29-62
*De Duve, Thierry, ”The Readymade and the Tube of Paint”, in Kant after Duchamp, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996, 149-196
Optional:
Krauss, Rosalind. (1977), s. 69-84
*Duchamp, Marcel, ”Apropos of ’Readymades’”, 1966, in Sanouillet; Michel (ed.), The Writings of Marcel Duchamp, 1973, 141-142
*Cabanne, Pierre, ”A Window onto Something Else”, in Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp
New York: Da Capo, 1971/1967, 28-51
4. ANDY WARHOL
Mandatory:
*Buchloh, Benjamin H.D., ”Andy Warhol’s One-Dimensional Art”, 39-61
*Crow, Thomas, ”Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol”, in Modern
Art in the Modern Common Culture, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, 49-65
Foster, Hal, The Return of the Real, 127-136.
Optional:
*McShine, Kynaston, ”Introduction” Fra Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, MoMA, New York, 1989, 13-23
*Crimp, Douglas, ”Getting the Warhol We Deserve”, Social Text 59, Vol.17, No. 2, Summer 1999, 49-65
*Flatley, Jonathan, ”Warhol Gives Good Face: Publicity and the Politics of Prosopopeia”, in Jennifer Doyle et.al. Pop Out. Queer Warhol, 1996, 101-133
*Warhol, Andy, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 1975, 77-85, 91-103
5. DONALD JUDD – MINIMAL ART
Mandatory:
*Fried, Michael: "Art and Objecthood", AiT, 822-834
Hal Foster: "The Crux of Minimalism", from The Return of the Real
*Judd, Donald: "Specific Objects", 1965, AiT, 809-813,
*Morris, Robert ”Notes on Sculpture”: Part I, II,III, AiT, 813-823
Optional:
*Meyer, James: "Survey", in Minimalism, ed. James Meyer, Phaidon, 2000, 14-45
*Merleau-Ponty, Maurice: "Egenkroppens syntese" incl. "Kroppens enhet og kunstverkets enhet" and "Den perceptuelle vane som tilegnelse av en verden", in Kroppens fenomenologi, Pax 1994, 104-112
*Sandqvist, Tom: "Den bokstavliga gestaltens specifika objekt " and "Rommet och kroppen" inDen meningsl?sa kuben, 315-321 and 375-382
*Wollheim, Richard: "Minimal Art", 1965, Minimal Art. A Critical Anthology, ed. Gregory Battcock: 387-400
*Morris, Robert, "Anti-Form", in Minimalism, ed. Meyer, 243-44
*Smithson, Robert, “Entropy and the New Monuments”, in Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam, 10-23
*LeWitt, Sol: "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art") AiT, 834-837
Krauss, Rosalind, "The Double Negative: a new syntax for sculpture", in Passages in Modern Sculpture.
*Chave, Anne C: "Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power" i Minimalism ed. Meyer, 275-285
* Wallenstein, Sven-Olov: "Det utvidgade f?ltet – fr?n h?gmodernism till konceptualism", in Konsten och konstbegreppet", Kungl. Konsth?gskolan, Stockholm, 1996, 117-153
6. ROBERT SMITHSON – LAND ART
Mandatory:
*Craig Owens:"Earthwords", reprinted from October 10, 1979, 120-132
*Krauss, Rosalind, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field", The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985, 276-291
Optional:
*Hobbs, Robert: Robert Smithson: Retrospective, ex.cat. ARC Musée d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1982/83, 11-19
* Kastner, Jeffrey: "Survey", i Land and Environmental Art, ed. Kastner/ Wallis, Phaidon, 1998, 18-43
*From Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, Ed. Jack Flam, University of California, 1996 “A sedimentation of the mind. Earth Projects, 100-114, "Spiral Jetty", 1972, 143 –153,
*"Robert Smithson on Duchamp", interview with Moira Roth, 310-313
7. JOSEPH BEUYS
Mandatory:
*De Duve, Thierry: "Joseph Beuys or The Last of the Proletarians", October 45, MIT Press 1988, 47-62
*Kuspit, Donald: "Joseph Beuys. Between Showman and Shaman", in Thistlewood, David (ed.): Joseph Beuys. Diverging Critiques. Liverpool 1995, 27-51
Optional:
*Borer, Alain: "A Lament for Joseph Beuys", in The Essential Joseph Beuys. Massachusetts 1997, 11-34
*Buchloh Buchloh, Benjamin: "Twilights of the Idol. Preliminary Notes for a Critique." Artforum, Vol. 18/5, Januar 1980, 35-43
*Kuoni, Carin (ed.):” Energy Plan for the Western Man.” Joseph Beuys in
America. New York, 19-57
8. GERHARD RICHTER
Mandatory:
*Koch, Gertrud: "The Richter-Scale of Blur", in October 62, MIT Press 1992, 133-140
*Osborne, Peter: "Painting Negation: Gerhard Richter's Negatives", in October 62, MIT Press 1992, 103-111
Optional:
*From Hans Ulrich Obrist (red.): Gerhard Richter. The Daily Practice of
Painting; Writings and Interviews 1962-1993. London, 1995
Interview with Benjamin D.H. Buchloh, 132-166
9. CINDY SHERMAN
Mandatory:
*Mulvey, Laura, ”A Phantasmagoria of the Female Body: The Work of Cindy Sherman”, i New Left Review, no. 188, July/August, 1991, 137-150
*Krauss, Rosalind, Cindy Sherman 1975-1993, New York: Rizzoli, 1993, 17-195 (26 pages of text in all, the rest are images)
Optional:
Foster, Hal (1996), 136-168
*Jones, Amelia, ”Tracing the Subject with Cindy Sherman”, in Cindy Sherman: Retrospective, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997, 33-53
*Jones, Amelia, Body Art. Performing the Subject, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 151-185
*Crimp, Douglas, ”Pictures”, in: Brian Wallis (ed.) Art After Modernism, New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984, 175-187