AHIS W3655 Spring 2002
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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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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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