DDA610_Readings

The following is a list of readings for this course. Some of the readings are required, some are recommended but not required. All are very worth reading and understanding.

Mimesis

Pliny. The story of the contest between the Greek painters, Zeuxis and Parrhassius

Plato. Dialogue XXXII: Socrates and Glaucon, from The Republic. (full text) (380 BC)

Aristotle (340 BC) on mimesis, from The Poetics. (from Florida International Univ. website)

Mimesis (1). Michelle Puetz, Univ of Chicago (2002)

Mimesis (2). Yazan Doughan, Univ of Chicago (2002)

Lovejoy, Margot. “Vision, Representation, and Invention”, from Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age. (2004 - 1989)

Gombrich, E.H. "The Greek Revolution", from Art and Illusion (1956)

Hockney, D. Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters. (2001, 2006)

Modernism

Quigley, Timothy. Synopsis of Greenberg's "Modernist Painting" (1996)

Greenberg, Clement. "Modernist Painting" (full text). (1960)

Greenberg, Clement. “The Crisis of the Easel Picture” (1948)

Greenberg, Clement. “On the Role of Nature in Modernist Painting” (1949)

Greenberg, Clement. “Abstract, Representation, and So Forth” (1954)

Leger, Fernand. "The Origins of Painting and Its Representational Value". (1913)

Hendry, Marc, Modernist Animation (online, 2012)

Classical and Modernist Narrative Strategies (online, csun.edu)

Benjamin, Walter: “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”(full text) (1936)

Quickley, Timothy. Action Painting: Rosenberg & Greenberg

Japonism. Metropolitan Museum.

Post-Modernism

Danto, Arthur. “Master Narratives”, selection from After the End of Art (1997)

Danto, Arthur. “The Artworld” (1964)

Danto, Arthur. "Works of Art and Mere Real Things", fromThe Tranfiguration of the Commonplace, (1974)

Lyotard, J.F. selection from The Postmodern Condition (1979)

Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author” (1977)

Goodman, Nelson. “The Question of Merit”, from Languages of Art (1968)

Walter Benjamin. “The Author as Producer” (1970)

Derrida, Jacques. Richards, K.M. Derrida Reframed: selection from Chapter1: “Deconstruction and Of Grammatology”

Richards, K.M. selection from chapter 2 of Derrida Reframed: the parergon (2008)

Baudrillard, Jean. selection from Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

Foucault, Michel. Chapter 1, Las Meninas, from The Order of Things. (1966)

The Digital Era/ the Internet Era

Manovich, Lev. “The Paradoxes of Digital Photography” (1995)

Manovich, Lev. "The Logic of Selection", from The Language of New Media. (1999)

Hans Ulrich Obrist. “Manifestos for the Future”, (e-flux.com, 2010)

Eduardo Navas. “The Blogger as Producer” (20??)

Okwui Enwezor, “The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis” (2004)