postmodernism: web "reserve" readings
September 4th:
THEODOR ADORNO AND MAX HORKHEIMER, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (1944)
ARTHUR DANTO Introduction from After the End of Art (1996)
ROBERT STORR (SUGGESTED reading), "No Joy in Mudville: Greenberg's Modernism Then and Now" (1990)
September 25th:
ROLAND BARTHES "The Death of the Author" (1968)
JACQUES DERRIDA, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences (1970)
October 16th:
LINDA NOCHLIN, " Why have there been no great women artists?" (1971)
October 23rd:
LESTER BANGS, "The White Noise Supremacists" (1979)
DAN GRAHAM, "New Wave Rock and the Feminine" (1980-4)
GREIL MARCUS, Preface to Lipstick Traces (1989)
October 30th:
IHAB HASSAN, "Toward a Concept of Postmodernism" (1987)
GILLES DELEUZE AND FELIX GUATTARI Excerpt from A Thousand Plateaus (1987)
November 6th:
CRAIG OWENS, "The Discourse of Others: Feminism and Postmodernism" (1983)
ROSALIND KRAUSS, Excerpts from Cindy Sherman: Untitled (1993)
November 13th:
JULIA KRISTEVA, Excerpts from "Approaching Abjection" (1982)
CORNEL WEST, "The New Politics of Cultural Difference" (1990)
BELL HOOKS, "Postmodern Blackness" (1990)
November 20th:
JUDITH BUTLER, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" (1988)
LIZ KOTZ/JUDITH BUTLER (suggested reading) "The Body You Want: Liz Kotz interviews Judith Butler" (1992)
November 27th:
FREDRIC JAMESON, Excerpts from Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
PATRICIA BICKERS “’Oh, Politics Schmolitics!’ Art in the Postmodern Age” (2002)
CATHY BYRD "Is there a 'post-black' art?" (2002)
FEMINISM AND ART: NINE VIEWS (2003)
December 4:
NICOLAS BOURRIAUD Excerpts from Relational Aesthetics (1998)
DONALD KUSPIT "The Semiotic Anti-Subject" (2000)
DJ SPOOKY "An Interview with That Subliminal Kid" (2002)
KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH "The Case for Contamination" (2006)
PETER PLAGENS “At a Crossroads"(2005)
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