Thursday, January 13, 2011

20th CENTURY ART Modernism's Models of Representation Rosalind Krauss



AHIS W3655                                                             Spring 2002 
20th CENTURY ART 
Modernism's Models of Representation 
Tues/Thurs 2:40-3:55 
Room 501 Schermerhorn 
Prof. Rosalind Krauss 
Office: 815 Schermerhorn 
x4-2164 
office hours Tues 4:00-6:00 
Section Leaders 
Masha Chlenova    mc413@columbia.edu   
Jonathan D Feldman    jdf89@columbia.edu   
Seth James McCormick    sjm52@columbia.edu   
Scott Evan Portnoy    sep30@columbia.edu   
Abigail Susik    as451@columbia.edu   
Course text:  Rosalind Krauss,    The Originality of the       Avant-Garde   
Recommended:  Yve-Alain Bois,    Painting as Model    and Krauss    The       Picasso Papers   
All reading, both required and optional, will be on reserve at Avery in both book 
and xerox copies. 
Xerox reader (available at Villiage Copier):  Steinberg, "The Philosophical 
Brothel," Buchloh, "Conceptual Art," Foster, "The Crux of Minimalism," Clark, "In 
Defense of Abstract-Expressionism," Krauss, "Corpus Delicti." 
Week 1 (Jan 22, 24): Modernism and "The Language of Art" 
January 22--Introduction 
January 24--Clement Greenberg, "Modernist Painting" in    The New 
   Art   , ed. G. Battcock 
Optional: 
Meyer Schapiro, "Field and Vehicle in Image Signs"    Semiotica    no. 1 
T. J. Clark,  "Clement Greenberg's Theory of Art," in    The Politics   
   of Interpretation   
Week 2 (Jan. 29, 31): no lectures--first meetings of discussion sections 
read: Greenberg, "Modernist Painting" 
Bois, “Matisse and Arche-Drawing,”    Painting as Model 
Week 3 (Feb. 5, 7): Cubist Space 
Leo Steinberg, "The Philosophical Brothel,"    October   , no. 44 
Week 4 (Feb 12, 14):  Collage 
February 12--Clement Greenberg, "Collage,"    Art and Culture   
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February 14--Optional: 
Robert Rosenblum, "Picasso and the Typography of Cubism,"    Picasso in 
   Retrospect   , l973 
Week 5 (Feb. 19, 21): Collage II 
February 19--Rosalind Krauss, "In the Name of Picasso,"    The Originality   
    of the       Avant-Garde   
February 21--Optional: 
Yve-Alain Bois, "Kahnweiler's Lesson,"    Painting as Model   
Ferdinand de Saussure,    Course in General Linguistics    
(selected readings) 
Rosalind Krauss,    The       Picasso  Papers   , Chapter 1 
Week 6 (Feb. 26, 28):  The Abstract Difference 
February 26--Mondrian, "Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art," and Malevich, 
"Suprematism," in    Modern Artists on Art   , ed. Robert Herbert 
February 28--Optional: 
Yve-Alain Bois, "Mondrian's    New York   ,"    Painting as Model   
Robert Welsh, "The Birth of de Stijl:  The Subject Matter of 
Abstraction,"    Artforum    (April l973) 
Jakobson, “Why Mama and Papa” 
Krauss, “Grids,”    The Originality of the       Avant-Garde   
Week 7 (March 5, 7): Duchamp and the Master Signified 
March 5 and 7--Optional: 
Octavio Paz, "The Castle of Purity"    Marcel       Duchamp: Appearance Stripped   
   Bare   
Gilles Deleuze,    The Anti-Oedipus    (selected readings) 
Week 8 (March 12, 14): Duchamp's Index 
March 12--Rosalind Krauss, "Notes on the Index: Part I"    Originality. . . 
March 14--Optional: 
Emile Benveniste, "The Nature of Pronouns,"    Problems in General   
   Linguistics   
Roland Barthes,    Elements of       Semiology   
Week 9 (March 26, 28): 
March 26--Midterm exam 
March 28--Independent Museum Visit 
Week 10 (April 2, 4): The Surrealist Double 
April 2 and 4--Rosalind Krauss, "The Photographic Conditions of 
Surrealism, "   The Originality of the       Avant-Garde   
Week 11 (April 9, 11): In the Labyrinth 
April 9--Rosalind Krauss, "The Originality of the Avant-Garde,"    The   
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   Originality . . .   
April 11--Optional: 
Michel Foucault,    This Is Not a Pipe   
Gilles Deleuze, "Plato and the Simulacrum,"    October   , no. 27 
Krauss, “Corpus Delicti,”    October   , no 33 
Week 12 (April 16, 18): Jackson Pollock 
April 16--Rosalind Krauss, "Reading Jackson Pollock, Abstractly," 
   The Originality . . .   
April 18--Optional: 
Clement Greenberg, "After Abstract Expressionism," in Henry 
Geldzahler, ed.    New York Painting l940      -      l970   
T. J. Clark, "Jackson Pollock's Abstraction," in Guilbaut, ed. 
   Reconstructing Modernism   
Week l3 (23, 25): Graffiti:  The Abstract-Expressionist Mark 
April 23--Harold Rosenberg, "The American Action Painters"; T. J. Clark, 
"In Defense of Abstract-Expressionism" (   October    no. 69). 
April 25--Midterm exam 
Week 14 (April 30, May 2): The Flatbed Picture Plane 
April 30--Leo Steinberg, "Other Criteria,"    Other Criteria   
April 30--Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Reproduction," 
   Illuminations      
May 2--Benjamin Buchloh, "Conceptual Art 1962-1969"    October    no. 55 
       Hal Foster, “The Crux of Minimalism.” 
Week 15 (May 7, 9): Modernism/Postmodern 
May 9--Optional: 
Jacques Derrida, "Signature/Event/Context," in    Margins of Philosophy   
Roland Barthes,    S/Z    (pp. 3-58) 
May 14:  Final Exam 
Other course work: 
for undergraduates, a 4_6 page paper will be assigned by Section Leaders. 
Graduate Students will be assigned a longer paper by the instructor.

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