WEEK 2

QUESTIONING THE CANON / ASCENDANCE OF ALTERNATIVES THE FACTORY

Tuesday

Andy Warhol, Chris Burden


Required Readings:

Hans Haacke "Untitled Statement"(1966)

Daniel Buren "Beware" (1969- 70)


Suggested Readings:

Joseph Kosuth "Art after Philosophy"

Lawrence Weiner "Statements" (1969-72)

Otto Muehl and the AA Commune "Commune Manifesto" (1973)


video sequence:

The Cutting piece by Yoko Ono


Music:

Velvet Underground, John Coltrane, Phillip Glass


Thursday

(QUIZ)


Works by the following artists:

Paul Thek, Art & Language, John Baldessari, Donald Judd


Required Readings:


Michel Foucault "What Is an Author?" (1969)


Suggested Readings:

Donald Judd "Specific Objects" (1965)

Sol Le Witt "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" (1967), and

"Sentences on Conceptual Art" (1969)

Victor Burgin "Situational Aesthetics"(1969)


Music:

short pieces by John Cage, LaMonte Young, Steve Reich




Audio:
Speech by John F Kennedy