| 1 | Introduction; themes of the '30s |
Required [AMA], pp. 1-35. Recommended [TAP], pp. 1-28.
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| 2 | Surrealism to abstract expressionism |
Required [NYS], Introduction and chapters 4-7.   Hofmann, Hans. "The Search for the Real in the Visual Arts." Pp. 40-48 in Search for the Real, and Other Essays. Edited by Sara T. Weeks, and Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1967. ISBN: 9780262580083.
[MIS], "The Romance of the Studio and the Abstract Expressionist Sublime." pp. 1-41. Recommended [TAP], pp. 29-71.
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| 3 | Abstract expressionism: from "action" to "field" |
Required [NYS], chapters 8-11, 13, and 15. [AAA], pp. 1-46. Greenberg, Clement. "'American-Type' Painting." Pp. 208-229 in Art and Culture: Critical Essays. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971. ISBN: 9780807066812. Rosenberg, Harold. "Parable of American Painting" and "American Action Painters." In The Tradition of the New. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780306805967. [MIS], "The Romance of the Studio and the Abstract Expressionist Sublime." Pp. 41-59. Recommended [TAP], pp. 92-137, and 233-268. Phillips, Lisa. The Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School. New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984. (Read pp. 9-44 plus entries) ISBN: 9780874270020.
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| 4 | Abstract expressionism abroad: precursor, export, zeitgeist? |
Required Jones, Caroline A. Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989. Read chapter 1. ISBN: 9780520068421. Kachur, Lewis. "The View from the East: The Reception of Jackson Pollock among Japanese Gutai Artists." Pp. 152-162 in Abstract Expressionism: The International Context. Joan Marter, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780813539744. Recommended [TAP], pp. 148-192, 225-232, and 269-275. Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985. Skim chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780520055186. Munroe, Alexandra. Japanese Art After 1945. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. Read pp. 83-99. ISBN: 9780810925939. Roberts, James. "Painting as Performance." Art in America 80, no. 5 (1992): 112-120. Guilbaut, Serge. "Disdain for the Stain: Abstract Expressionism and Tachisme." Pp. 29-50 and notes in Abstract Expressionism: The International Context. Joan Marter, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780813539744. Ashton, Dore, ed. Twentieth-Century Artists on Art. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1986. Read pp. 122, 186, and 203. ISBN: 9780394734897.
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| 5 | Abstract expressionism abroad: the Cold War '50s |
Required Jones, Caroline A. "Coca-Cola Plan, or, How New York Stole the Soul of Giuseppe Panza." In Panza: The Legacy of a Collector. Los Angeles, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999. Read pp. 25-30. ISBN: 9780914357735. Tomkins, Calvin. Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Read chapters 8, 11, 15, and 21. ISBN: 9780385124706. Jones, Caroline A. Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989. Read chapter 2, skim and consult pictures in chapters 3-5. ISBN: 9780520068421. [AAA], pp. 72-78. Recommended Tomkins, Calvin. The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters of the Avant-Garde. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1976. Read chapters on Cage, Tinguely, and Rauschenberg. ISBN: 9780140043136. Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985. Skim and consult pictures, chapters 5-6. ISBN: 9780520055186. Schulze, Franz. Fantastic Images: Chicago Art Since 1945. Chicago, IL: Follett Publishing Co., 1972. Skim and consult pictures.
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| 6 | The '50s into '60s: figuration into neo-Dada |
Required [AMA], pp. 37-64. [AAA], pp. 57-72. Phillips, Lisa. "Beat Culture." In Beat Culture and the New America. New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995. Skim text and pictures throughout. ISBN: 9782080136138. Ginsberg, Allen. "Prologue." In Beat Culture and the New America. New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1995. ISBN: 9782080136138. Recommended [NYS], pp. 140-195.
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| 7 | '50s (and later): cool art, cold war |
Required [AMA], pp. 67-93. [AAA], pp. 47-52 and 52-55. Jones, Caroline A. "Tyranny of the Eye." Chapter 7 in Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780226409535. Recommended Haskell, Barbara. Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance: 1958-1964. New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984. Skim and consult pictures. ISBN: 9780874270006. [NYS], pp. 196-213.
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| 8 | Turning from the '50s: toward "contemporary" art |
Required [MIS], pp. 98-105 (section of chapter 2 on "Painters Painting"); and pp. 105-113 theoretical conclusion (extra credit). Recommended De Antonio, Emile, and Mitch Tuchman. Painters Painting: A Candid History of the Modern Art Scene, 1940-1970. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780896594180.
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| 9 | 60s abstraction, figuration: an industrial aesthetic |
Required [AMA], pp. 95-104, 110-128, and 131-159. [AAA], pp. 79-104 and 105-123. [MIS], pp. 114-188 (chapter 2, "Frank Stella, Executive Artist"); and pp. 189-267 (chapter 4, "Warhol's Factory"). Rosenblum, Robert. "Pop Art and Non-Pop Art." 1964. Anthologized in Pop Art Redefined. John Russell and Suzi Gablik, eds. New York, NY: Praeger, 1969, pp. 53-56. Recommended Meyer, James. Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. (An excellent detailed history and additional background) ISBN: 9780300105902. Lobel, Michael. Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. (More good background) ISBN: 9780300087628.
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| 10 | International pop to conceptualism |
Required [AAA], pp. 125-144. [AT], pp. 37-50 and 105-118. Recommended Legg, Alicia, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, et al. Sol LeWitt: the Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1978. ISBN: 9780870704277. Van Bruggen, Coosje. John Baldessari. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1990. ISBN: 9780847811823. Livingstone, Marco. Pop Art: An International Perspective. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1992. (Skim and consult pictures) ISBN: 9780847814756.
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| 11 | '70s pluralism: conceptual art and performance |
Required [MIS], pp. 268-343 (chapter 5). [AMA], pp. 172-182. [AAA], pp. 169-224 and 225-240. [AT], pp. 77-83. Recommended Boettger, Suzaan. Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780520241169. Matilsky, Barbara. Fragile Ecologies. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1992. ISBN: 9780847815920. Schimmel, Paul. Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 1998. ISBN: 9780500280508.
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| 12 | Process, feminism, identity, and the end of "the mainstream" |
Required [AMA], pp. 183-195. Lippard, Lucy. Interviews with Eva Hesse and Judy Chicago. Pp. 214-230 in From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1976. ISBN: 9780525474272. Recommended Cooper, Helen, et al. Eva Hesse: A Retrospective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780894670596. Jacob, Mary Jane, ed. Gordon Matta-Clark: A Retrospective. Chicago, IL: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985. ISBN: 9780933856202. Holloway, Robert. Matta-Clarking. Ebook, 2008. Jones, Amelia, ed. Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's 'Dinner Party' in Feminist Art History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. (Read Jones' essay) ISBN: 9780520205666. [AAA], pp. 240-249.
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| 13 | '80s and '90s political art and postmodernism |
Required [AMA], pp. 197-231. [AT], pp. 63-74; 235-255; and 269-311. Foster, Hal. "Re: Post." Pp. 175-187 in Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. Brian Wallis, ed. New York, NY: New Museum, 1984. ISBN: 9780879236328. Owens, Craig. "The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism." Pp. 166-190 in Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520077409. Recommended Wodiczko, Krzysztof. Critical Vehicals. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262731225. Lippard, Lucy. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. New York, NY: The New Press, 2000. ISBN: 9781565845732. Crimp, Douglas, and Adam Rolston. AIDS Demo Graphics. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780941920162. Robins, Corinne. "Art and Politics." Pp. 37-75 in The Pluralist Era: American Art, 1968-1981. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1984. ISBN: 9780064301374. Linker, Kate. Love for Sale: The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. ISBN: 9780810912199.
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| 14 | '90s installations, politics, and '00s biennial culture |
Required [AMA], pp. 233-251. Thompson, Nato, and Gregory Sholette. The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. North Adams, MA: MassMoCA, 2006. Skim entire book, read pp. 113-118 (Atlas Group and Critical Art Ensemble). ISBN: 9780262201506. Carpenter, Ele. Interview with Gregory Sholette and Nato Thopmson. Pp. 111-127 in A Brief History of Working with New Media Art. Sarah Cook, et al., eds. Berlin, Germany: The Green Box, 2010. ISBN: 9783941644212. Stallabrass, Julian. "New World Order." Pp. 19-49 in Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780192806468. Abe, Stanley K. "No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky." Boundary 225, no. 3 (1998): 169-192.
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