readings this weekend 3/27-4/1

please read the following short writings, and look up (quick google searches) all artists you do not know. I am only giving two readings in order to allow more time for looking up people.

Daniel Birnbaum, review: Painting in the Expanded Field, 1997
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n6_v35/ai_19353260/

Michelle Grabner, review of Painting at the Edge of the World, 2001
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/painting_at_the_edge_of_the_world/

seemed relevant to discussions of the self

“It’s not that students don’t ‘get’ Kafka’s humor but that we’ve taught them to see humor as something you get – the same way we’ve taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.” - David Foster Wallace

February 13 lecture notes

Bas Jan Ader

List of artist names from February 13 lecture:

Giotto

Leonardo Da Vinci

Caravaggio

Vermeer

Michaelangelo

Raphael

El Greco

Lippi

Poussin

Manet

Reynolds

Courbet

Millet

Thomas Cole

Lucio Fontana

Henri Matisse

Milton Avery

Jessica Stockholder

Daniel Buren

Andy Warhol

Martin Kippenberger

Jaspar Johns

Jim Shaw

Mike Kelley

Andreas Gursky

Rachael Harrison

Thomas Kinkaid

George Innis

Norman Rockwell

Turner

Richard Mosse

Carleton Watkins

Gustave Le Gray

Talbot Fox

Lumiere factory

Peter Davies

Stuart Davis

Giorgio Morandi

Amanda Ross-Ho

John Baldessari

Kevin Appel

Lynda Benglis

Bas Jan Ader

Alex Katz

John Currin

Tizan Haug

Bill Traylor

Alice Neel

Max Beckmann

Jenny Saville

Judith Linhares

Luc Tuymans

Dana Schutz

Selena Trepp

Jutta Koether

Josua Abelow

Polly Apfelbaum

Richard Wright