Syllabi and Writing Assignments

Philosophy of Contemporary Art

  Philosophy of Contemporary Art - Syllabus

Critical Theory A

Critical Theory A - Syllabus

Critical Theory A - First Writing Assignment

Critical Theory A -Second Writing Assignment

Critical Theory A - Third Writing Assignment

  Texts

Benjamin, Walter, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," pp. 217 - 251

Bhabha, Homi, "Introduction" to The Location of Culture, pp. 1 - 27

Bishop, Claire, "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics," pp. 51 - 79

Bishop, Claire, "Mimetic Engulfment," from Installation Art, pp. 82 - 101

Bishop, Claire, "Heightened Perception," from Installation Art, pp. 48 - 81

Bourriaud, Nicolas, "Relational Form," pp. 10 - 24

Butler, Judith, "Subjects of Sex, Gender, Desire," Gender Trouble, pp. 1 - 34

Danto, "Art After the End of Art," pp. 115 - 128

Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Feliz, "Introduction: Rhizome," A Thousand Plateaus, pp.3 - 24

Derrida, Jacques, "Signature Event Context," 80 - 109

Derrida, Jacques, "The Law of Genre," pp. 55 - 81

Derrida, Jacques, "Parergon," from The Truth In Painting, pp. 17 - 147

Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality, Chs. 1 and 2, pp. 17 - 49

Foster, Hal, "What's So Neo About the Neo-Avant-Garde?," pp. 5 - 32

Freud, "Creative Writers and Daydreaming," pp. 436 - 443

Freud, "Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning," pp. 215 - 225

Freud, "Remembering, Repeating, Working-Through," pp. 147 - 156

Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," pp. 5 - 22

Greenberg, "Modernist Painting," pp. 85 - 93

Heidegger, "The Worldhood of the World," from Being and Time, pp.91 - 122

Heidegger, Martin, "The Origin of the Work of Art," pp. 17 - 78

Kant, Critique of Judgment, excerpts on Fine Art and Genius, pp. 170 - 189

Kant, Critique of Judgment, "The Analytic of the Beautiful," pp. 43 - 95

Kaprow, Alan, "The Education of the Un-Artist, Part I," pp. 97 - 109

Krauss, Rosalind, "Informe Without Conclusion," pp. 89 - 105

Marx, Selections (One PDF):  

Communist Manifesto,pp.221 - 238, 

"Alienated Labor," pp. 77 - 96,

"The Fetishism of Commodities," pp. 435 - 439

Nietzsche, "Good and Bad v. Good and Evil," from The Genealogy of Morals, pp. 24 - 56

Mill, J.S., On Liberty, "Chapters 1 and 2," pp. 1 - 52

Thurber, James, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," pp. 1 - 3