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Academic Year 2001/2002

Topics in Studio Art
ARST 400 FA

Artists in all media have historically responded to common, formal, and ideological motivations. These motivations encompass the very fabric of a liberal arts education. This course is intended to strengthen such a liberal conversation among the various studio art disciplines, as well as to develop that conversation as the foundation for making art. In this course we examine various aspects of the relations between the public and private realms to inform our own practice as artists. We will cre ate artworks in response to readings and specific cultural artifacts and phenomena.

MAJOR READINGS

from ART AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE, edited by W.J.T. Mitchell:
Michael North, "The Public as Sculpture"
W.J.T. Mitchell, "The Violence of Public Art"
Vito Acconci, "Public Space in a Private Time"
from ART IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, edited by Arlene Raven:
Michael Hall, "Forward in the Aftermath: Public Art Goes Kitsch"
Phylis Roser, "Education through Collaboration Saves Lives"
Robert Storr, "Tilted Arc: Enemy of the People?"
Donald Kuspit, "Crowding the Picture: Notes on American Activist Art Today"
from MAPPING THE TERRAIN, edited by Suzanne Lacy:
Mary Jane Jacobs, "An Unfashionable Audience"
Suzi Gablick, "Connective Aesthetics: Art After Individualism"
Mary Miss, "From Autocracy to Integration: Redefining the Objec tives of Public Art"
Jane Kramer, WHOSE ART IS IT
Mike Davis, "Fortress L.A." from CITY OF QUARTZ
Hannah Arendt, "The Public and the Private Realm," THE HUMAN CONDITION
Samuel Beckett, THE END
Italo Calvino, "The King Listens," from UNDER T HE JAGUAR SUN
Comstock Encyclopedia of Stock Photography, Volume II

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

A semester-long topic will be broken into several short problems and one final project. Course structure emphasizes work in the studio concomitant to individual and group discussions.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Course fee: $50. Interviews: Tuesday, April 11, 5pm CFA North Studio #101 PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED: This course is primarily intended as an opportunity for art program majors who wish to expand developing interests into investigations in - or in collaboration with - other studio disciplines. "Permission of Instructor" will be granted to those students whose work exhibits maturity in both the skills as well as conceptual acumen in their previous studio courses. Permission will also be granted to non-art program majors whose interests the instructor perceives as sympathetic to the objectives of the course and who show adequate skills necessary to translate those interests into visual form.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Studio

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2002

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