Cage on Cage

Nicolas Cage performs 4'33".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JKdeNv3Rlv0#!

Rebecca Morris: Abstract MANIFESTO

Rebecca Morris: Abstract MANIFESTO

MANIFESTO
For Abstractionists and friends of the non-objective

BE A FORCE

Don't shoot blanks

Black and Brown: that shit is the future

Triangles are your friend

Don't pretend you don't work hard

When in doubt, spray paint it gold

Perverse formalism is your god

You are greased lightening

Bring your camera everywhere

Never stop looking at macrame`, ceramics, supergraphics and suprematism

Make work that is so secret, so fantastic, so dramatically old school/new school that it looks like it was found in a shed, locked up since the 1940's

Wake up early, fear death

Whip out the masterpieces

Be out for blood

You are the master of your own universe

Abstraction never left, motherfuckers

If you can't stop, don't stop

Strive for deeper structure

Fight monomania

Campaign against the literal

ABSTRACTION FOREVER!


http://joshuaabelow.blogspot.com/2011/02/rebecca-morris-abstract-manifesto.html

schedule

Schedule

W1 January 18 Introduction to the class

homework: begin reading 1: TJ Clark, section of The Sight of Death

W2 January 23 Woodshop demo (must wear closed toe shoes)

complete building three stretchers by next week, January 30.
homework: finish reading 1: TJ Clark

January 25 discussion of reading
assignment go to Fleming and pick a painting to write and paint about. Begin a diary about it, and write two pages, and do 2 hours of drawing of it. You will present these to class on Monday, reading and sharing notebook drawings.

W3 January 30 last day to drop/add

Presentations: Share drawings and writings
canvas stretching demo
homework: complete three canvas preps, have photo of self ready

February 1 work day (have canvasses ready to work on, you will be penalized if you are still gesso-ing in class. Begin 3 Portrait project.
homework: continue project (4-5 hours)

Portrait Project: you will be painting three self-portraits, each one in a different mode. For one you will be painting yourself from observation using a mirror, for another you will paint yourself from memory, for another you will paint yourself from a photograph.

W4

February 6 work day

February 8 work day

W5
February 13 work day+lecture: Appropriation, etc

February 15 work day

W6

February 20 no school, Presidents Day

February 22 Critique

Homework: Read Hal Foster, "The Expressive Fallacy" (handout)

W7

February 27 Discussion and new painting assignment: Appropriation and Expressivity

(parameters to be discussed in class, on materials, scale, and site of your choice) also read three short essays posted on blog ("appropriation 3" post). Reading discussion will be held March 12. Paintings will be critiqued March 28.

February 29 work day

W8

no school: spring break

W9

March 12 group discussion on individual proposals for Appropriation and Expressivity project, work day

March 14 work day

W10

March 19 work day

March 21 work day
read "A Case of Cultural Criticism" and "The Contest between Chanel and Courreges. Refered by a Philosopher" by Roland Barthes' The Language of Fashion, and "Why Write Novels at All?" by Garth Risk Hallberg

W11

March 26 work day

March 28 work day (no formal class)
read Birnbaum and Grabner reviews, and look up all artists you are not familiar with (see post).

W12

April 2 Critique Appropriation and Expressivity

April 4 complete critique if necessary
reading assignment posted on blog (Saltz and Edmundson)
begin final project: independently-conceived painting project
discuss with me in person, or via e-mail by Friday, April 6.
your description should include materials, subject, and purpose/reason for investigation.

W13

April 9 discuss readings / see slides
April 11 work day
homework: choose an artist (that we have seen in slides) to write about, and adopt a form and voice to do so. See blog post which compiles all the writings we have done.

W14

April 16 work day

April 18 Final project in-progress critique

W15

April 23 Criticism writing project due and to be read writings to class (and hand in).

April 25 work day

W16

April 30 Final Critique 1 (all work due)

May 2 Final Critique 2

readings this weekend 4/5-4/8

Jerry Saltz on Morley Safer's Facile 60 Minutes Art-World Screed
http://www.vulture.com/2012/04/jerry-saltz-on-morley-safer-60-minutes-art-world.html?imw=Y

Education's Hungry Hearts, Mark Edmundson
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=933320

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