BANNED AND DANGEROUS ART
COURSE SCHEDULE
I. THE NATURE OF ART, THE ARTIST, AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE ARTIST TO THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORDER
Aug. 28 Introduction to the Course
Aug. 30 Plato, The Republic Book II, 376d-383c; Book III, 386-403d
Download: Plato The Republic Excerpts
Sept. 4 Course writing, using blogs; meet with DTLT staff
Course meets in Combs 349
Sept. 6 Plato, The Republic Book X,595-608c
Ion, 532b-536b
See download link above.
Sept. 11 Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book VII 1032a-1034b
Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1094a-1094b10
Poetics 1457-1466; 1315-1316
Download: Aristotle Excerpts
Sept. 13 Tolstoy, What is Art?
Hospers, Art as Expression
Sept. 18 Bell, “The Metaphysical Hypothesis”
Kant, “Art and Genius”
Sept. 20 Collingwood, Art and Craft
Okakura, The Tea Room
Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
Sept. 25 Geertz, “Art as a Cultural System”
Azevedo, “Sources of Gola Artistry”
Xie-He, Six Canons of Painting
Su Shih, “Painting Bamboo,” “Genius”
Ch’Inch’en, “Spiritual Excellence”
Sept. 27 Mudimbe, “The Invention of Africa”
FIRST SHORT PAPER DUE
Oct. 2 Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge, Chapters 1-3
Available: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/foucault.htm
Oct. 4 Bob Dylan Interview
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/pop/cl-ca-dylan04apr04,0,3583678.htmlstory
Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art”
Http://www.altx.com/vizarts/conceptual.html
Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism”
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/manifesto.html
Or download from course website
Oct. 9 Milton, Aeropaegetica
Available on line—recommend that you use the “print page” version: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/miltA1.html
Or download from course website: Milton Aeropaegetica
Oct. 11 MIDTERM EXAM Exam is in GW 106
II. THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND THE “MEANING OF ART”
Oct. 18 Nussbaum, “Luck and the Tragic Emotions”
Recommended: Feagin, “The Pleasures of Tragedy”
Oct. 23 Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart (selections)
Recommended: Poe, “Descent Into the Maelstrom”
SECOND SHORT PAPER DUE
Oct. 25 Higgins, “The Music of Our Lives”
Levinson, “Music and Negative Emotion”
Oct. 30 Nochlin, “Women Art, and Power”
Chadwick, “Women Artists and the Institutions of Art”
Nov. 1 Cohen, “Jokes”
Nov. 6 Beardsley, “The Artist’s Intention”
Danto, “Deep Interpretation”
Nov. 8 Sontag, Against Interpretation
FIRST DRAFT OF FINAL PAPER DUE
Nov. 13 Barthes, “From Work to Text”
III. THE EVALUATION AND VALUE OF ART
Nov. 15 Hume, Of the Standard of Taste
Nov. 20 Public Funding of the Arts, Comments on Andres Serrano
by Members of the United States Senate, Congressional Record
Senate - May 18, 1989
http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361_r7.html
THIRD SHORT PAPER DUE
Nov. 27 Berger, “Lessons of the Past”
Nov. 29 Karp, “How Museums Define Other Cultures”
Dec. 4 Appiah, “The Postcolonial and the Aesthetic”
Dec. 6 Chadwick, “Women Artists and the Institutions of Art”
Pollock, “Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity”
Dec. 7 FINAL PAPER DUE
Dec. 13 FINAL EXAM (12 noon-2:30pm)
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