1/13: Introduction: The 1930s and 40s
Recommended: Fineberg, 20-38

1/15: The New York School / Abstract Expressionism: Action Painting
Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock

Fineberg, 74-98

Harold Rosenberg, "The American Action Painters," (1952) in The Tradition of the New, 23-39; Clement Greenberg, "‘American-Type’ Painting," (1958) in Art and Culture, 208-229

Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still

Fineberg, 98-115

Bradford Collins, "Life Magazine and the Abstract Expressionists, 1948-51: A Historiographic Study of a Late Bohemian Enterprise," The Art Bulletin 73 (June 1991), 283-308

Recommended: Max Kozloff, "American Painting During the Cold War," and Eva Cockcroft, "Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War," in Francis Frascina, ed., Pollock and After, The Critical Debate (1985)

1/27: Sculpture at Mid-Century
Louise Bourgeois, Isamu Noguchi, David Smith

Fineberg, 115-127

Rosalind Krauss, "Tanktotem: Welded Images," Passages in Modern Sculpture, 147-71

Jim Dine, Alan Kaprow, Claes Oldenberg

Fineberg, 188-199

Alan Kaprow, "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock," Art News (October 1958): 24-26, 55-57

Fineberg, 177-187

Leo Steinberg, "The Flatbed Picture Plane," excerpt of "Other Criteria," (1972) in Other Criteria, 82-91

Fineberg, 206-221

Leo Steinberg, "Jasper Johns: The First Seven Years of His Art," (1962) in Other Criteria, 17-54

Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol

Fineberg, 237-241, 250-259

Benjamin Buchloh, "Andy Warhol’s One-Dimensional Art: 1956-1966," in Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, Kynaston McShine ed. (1989) 39-61

Recommended: Thomas Crow, "Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol," Art in America 75 (May 1987): 129-136

Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann

Fineberg, 199-206, 244-250, 259-266

Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," (1939) in Art and Culture, 3-21

Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski

Fineberg, 154-158

Clement Greenberg, "Modernist Painting," Art and Literature 4 (1965), repr. in F. Frascina and C. Harrison eds., Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology, 5-10

2/19: Minimalism
Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Tony Smith

Fineberg, 294-306

Michael Fried, "Art and Objecthood," Artforum (June 1967), repr. in G. Battcock ed., Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, 116-147

Recommended: Anna Chave, "Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power," Arts Magazine 64 (January 1990) 44-63 (Fine Arts Library Reserve)

2/24: Grids: Modernism and Post-Modernism
Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Sol Le Witt

Fineberg, 307-310

Rosalind Krauss, "The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodernist Repetition," October (Fall 1981), repr. in The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, 151-170

2/26: Conceptual Art in Europe
Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni

Fineberg, 222-236

Thomas McEvilley, "Yves Klein, Messenger of the Age of Space," Artforum 20 (January 1982), 38-51; Donald Kuspit, "Beuys: Fat, Felt and Alchemy," Art in America 68 (May 1980), 79-89

John Baldassari, Eva Hesse, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Walter de Maria

Fineberg, 311-315, 318-323, 338-346

Joseph Kosuth, "Art After Philosophy," Studio International 178 (October 1969), 134-137

Christo, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Richard Long, Robert Smithson, James Turrell

Fineberg, 323-332, 356-365

Films (shown during section): Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty; Christo’s Running Fence

3/19: Performance Art
Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Chris Burden, Carolee Schneemann, Eleanor Antin

Fineberg, 346-349, 351-352

David Bourdon, "An Eccentric Body of Art," (1973) in Gregory Battcock ed., The Art of Performance, 183-193

Recommended: Christine Poggi, "Vito Acconci’s Bad Dream of Domesticity," in Christopher Reed, ed., Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, (1996), 237-252

Judy Chicago, Hannah Wilke, Miriam Schapiro, Mary Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Guerilla Girls

Fineberg, 376-382

Judith Barry and Sandy Flitterman, "Textual Strategies: The Politics of Art Making," Screen 21 (Summer 1980), repr. in R. Parker and G. Pollock eds., Framing Feminism: Art and the Women’s Movement 1970-1985, 313-321; Judith Williamson, "A Piece of the Action, Images of ‘Woman’ in the Photography of Cindy Sherman," from Consuming Passions: The Politics and Images of Popular Culture, (1985) 91-113

3/26: Art Institutional Critiques
Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Hans Haacke, Louise Lawler

Fineberg, 354-356

Daniel Buren, "The Function of the Museum," (1970) in Hertz, ed. Theories of Contemporary Art, 219-222; Douglas Crimp, "On the Museum’s Ruins," in Hal Foster, ed., The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, 43-56

3/31: New Image Painting
Jennifer Bartlett, Philip Guston, Neil Jenney, Susan Rothenberg, Mark Tansey

Fineberg, 405-413, 433-439

Barbara Rose, "American Painting: "The Eighties," (1980) in Hertz, 17-30

Georg Baselitz, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Anselm Kiefer, Jean-Michel Basquiat

Fineberg, 414-428, 448-459

Craig Owens, "Honor, Power and the Love of Women," Art in America 71 (January 1983), 7-13 repr. in Hertz, 57-67; Hal Foster, "The Expressive Fallacy," Art in America 71 (January 1983), 80-83, 137

4/7: Appropriation
Jenny Holtzer, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger; Sherrie Levine

Fineberg, 466-471

Douglas Crimp, "Appropriating Appropriation," in Hertz, 157-162; Hal Foster, "Subversive Signs," in Hertz, 179-188; Jeanne Siegel, "After Sherrie Levine," Arts Magazine 59 (June 1985) 141-44

Peter Halley, Allan McCollum, Haim Steinbeck

Fineberg, 471-474

Craig Owens, "Allan McCollum: Repetition and Difference," (1983) in Beyond Recognition, Representation, Power and Culture, 117-121; Peter Halley, "On Line," New Observations 35 (1985), repr. in Brian Wallis, ed., Blasted Allegories, 329-334

Recommended: Jean Baudrilliard, "The Precession of Simulacra," (1983) in Brian Wallis, ed., Art After Modernism, 253-281

4/14: Race and Cultural Identity
Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Adrian Piper, Faith Ringgold, Betye and Alison Saar, Kara Walker

Fineberg, 394-398, 484-487

bell hooks, "The Poetics of Soul: Art for Everyone," in Art on My Mind: Visual Politics, 1995; David Joselit, "Notes on Surface: Towards a Genealogy of Flatness," Art History Vol. 23 No. 1 (March 2000) 19-34.

Alice Aycock, Robert Irwin, Maya Lin, Mary Miss, Richard Serra

Fineberg, 398-405

Elizabeth Hess, "A Tale of Two Memorials," Art in America 71 (April 1983), 121-128; Robert Storr, "‘Tilted Arc’: Enemy of the People?" Art in America 73 (September 1985), 90-97

Robert Maplethorpe, Andre Serrano; Act-up, David Wojnarowicz

Fineberg, 459-63

Carole S. Vance, "The War on Culture," Art in America Vol.77 (Sept. 1989) 39-45; Nicols Fox, "Cultural Cowardice Conservative Clout," New Art Examiner Vol.17 (Sept. 1989) 38-41; Douglas Crimp, "AIDS: Cultural Analysis/ Cultural Activism," October 43 (Winter 1987), 3-16

Kiki Smith, Robert Gober, Charles Ray, Bill Viola, Matthew Barney

Fineberg, 478-84, 488-95

5/2: Final Exam (8:30-10:30 AM)

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Beardsley, John. Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape. New York: Abbeville Press, 1998.

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Felshin, Nina ed. But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995.

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Guilbaut, Serge. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

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Hopps, Walter and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1998.

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Kastner, Jeffrey. Land and Environmental Art. London: Phaidon Press, 1998.

Krauss, Rosalind. Cindy Sherman. New York: Rizzoli, 1993.

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Lacy, Suzanne, ed. Mapping the Terrain, New Genre Public Art. Seattle: Bay Press, 1995.

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Mamiya, Christin. Pop Art and Consumer Culture, American Super Market. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.

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Saltzman, Lisa. Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Stiles, Kristine and Peter Selz, eds. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, A Source Book of Artists Writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

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