Core Text
Weintraub, Linda. In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003.
Most, but not all, “required” readings come from the textbook, which has been ordered from the University Bookstore. A handful of additional readings, see below, are online and available on the Morris Library e-reserve system. Please note that the readings are divided into “Required” and “Advanced” levels. IN ORDER TO RECEIVE AN “A” IN THE COURSE, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS MUST INCLUDE ADVANCED LEVEL TEXTS IN 2 OUT OF 3 READING RESPONSES. Graduate students are expected to write ALL their reading responses to include advanced level texts for a minimal acceptable graduate level grade (B).
Based on our class discussions, critiques, and your developing interests, I may recommend or require other readings as the semester progresses.
Required Materials
A blank, UNLINED journal/sketchbook, minimum 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, is required for your creative notebook. This book will be used for personal note-taking for the readings, to jot down thoughts and observations, to complete informal homework assignments, and to develop project ideas. Beyond the notebook, there are no required materials: you are expected to purchase or scavenge any materials you need to realize your projects successfully. A $50 lab fee is levied on all students in this class for use of the NMC computer lab and the Cinema and Photography equipment room. Students are responsible for all materials checked out of SIU facilities and may lose their borrowing privileges if procedures are not followed.
Bibliography of Additional Required Readings
De Certeau, Michel. “General Introduction.” The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984, xi-xxiv.
Cotter, Holland “The Collective Conscious.” The New York Times, Sunday, March 5, 2006. Last accessed July 29, 2006.
Debord, Guy. “The Society of the Spectacle” (excerpt), The Visual Culture Reader. Edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff. New York: Routledge, 1998, pp 142-145.
Hawkins, Joan. “When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial.” C-Theory, 2005.
Kaprow, Allan. “The Education of the Un-Artist, Part 1” Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. Edited by Jeff Kelley. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 97-109.
Sholette, Gregory. “From Imaginary Autonomy to Autonomous Collectivity.” Originally published in Eva Sturm and Stella Rollig (ed.), Dürfen die das? Kunst als sozialer Raum. Wien: Turia+Kant, 2002.
Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. “Postmodernism and Popular Culture.” Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp 237-277.
Temporary Services. Framing the Artist: Artists and Art in Film and Television, Vol. 1. Self-published, 2005.
Thompson, Nato. “Trespassing Relevance” in The Interventionists:
A User’s Guide to the Creative Disruption of
Everyday Life. Edited by Nato Thomson and Gregory Sholette.
(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004),
pp. 13-22.
Advanced Readings
Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Illuminations. Edited
by Hannah Arendt.
Trans. Harry Zohn. (New York: Schoken Books, 1968), pp. 217-251.
Benjamin, Walter. “The Author as Producer.” Reflections. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. (New York: Schocken Books, 1978), pp. 220-238.
Berman, Marshall. “Introduction” and “Marx, Modernism, and Modernization.” All That Is Solid Melts Into Air. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), pp. 15-36 and 87-129.
De Certeau, Michel. “Making Do: Uses and Tactics.” The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984, 29-42.
Debord, Guy. “The Commodity as Spectacle” and “Negation
and Consumption in the Cultural Sphere.” Society of
the Spectacle. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. (New York:
Zone Books, 1994), pp. 25-34 and 129-147.
Goffman, Erving. “Performances.” The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday, 1959, pp. 17-76.
Harvey, David. “Postmodernism.” The Condition of Postmodernity. (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990), pp. 39-65.