GENERAL: these books are on 2hour reserve in the Art Library

1. TALKING and WRITING ABOUT ART:

A short guide to writing about art, Sylvian Barnet, 9th edition, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008
The critique handbook, Kendall Buster & Paula Crawford, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007
Criticizing Art, Terry Barrett, Mayfield Publishing Co, Mountain View, California, London, Toronto, 2000

2. EXAMPLES FOR FINAL ASSIGNMENT FORMAT:

The Guerrilla Girls' bedside companion to the history of Western art, The Guerrilla Girls, Penguin Books, New York,1998
Deconstruction for beginners, Jim Powell ; illustrations by Joe Lee, For Beginners LLC, Danbury, CT, 2007.
Existentialism for beginners, David Cogswell ; illustrations by Joe Lee, , For Beginners LLC, Danbury, CT, 2008
Design and crime : and other diatribes, Hal Foster Verso, London, 2002
The return of the real : the avant-garde at the end of the century, Hal Foster, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1996
Beyond the brillo box : the visual arts in post-historical perspective, Arthur C. Danto, Farrar Straus Giroux , New York, 1992
The Madonna of the future : essays in a pluralistic art world, Arthur C. Danto, : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2000


SPECIFIC TO ART120 TOPICS: selected pages and articles from these books are on e-reserves

1. CONTENT

What is Art For? Ellen Dissanayake, University of Washington Press, Seattle, London, 1988 What is Art? Pg 34-42
The Abuse of Beauty, Arthur Danto, Open Court, Carus Publishing Co. Chicago, 2003 Arts Transformative Power pg. 130-135
Criticizing Art, Terry Barrett, Mayfield Publishing Co, Mountain View, California, London, Toronto, 2000 Describing Art pg. 63-67;
Principles of Interpretation pg. 113-120
The Abuse of Beauty, Arthur Danto, Open Court, Carus Publishing Co. Chicago, 2003 The Asthetics of Brillo Boxes pg. 1-15

2. PARADIGM CHANGE: STRATEGIES, MATERIALS, PLAY & PROCESS

Tom Friedman, Phaidon press, 2001 Adrian Searle: Untitled 1993, pg 88-95; Bruce Hainley: Self-portrait as Untitled, excerpt, Pg. 62-66
Craft in Art, Art as Craft, Donal Kuspit, New Art Examiner, April 1996
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Kristine Stiles, David Selz editors, University of California Press, Berkeley, London, Los Angeles, 1996 Marcel Duchamp, The Richard Mutt Case, The Creative Act, Apropos of Readymades pg. 817-820

3. IDENTITY

The art and films of Lynn Hershman Leeson, edited by Meredith Tromble, U. of California Press, Berkeley, LA, London, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle 2005 Roberta Breitmore pg 25-34
Biennial Exhibition 1993, Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Harry Abrams Inc. Publishers, NY 1993 Homi K. Bhabha, Beyond the Pale: Art in the Age of Multicultural Translation pg. 62-73;
Coco Fusco, Passionate Irreverence: The Cultural Politics of Identity pg. 74-85
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Kristine Stiles, David Selz editors, University of California Press, Berkeley, London, Los Angeles, 1996 Judi Chicago, The Dinner party: A Symbol of Our Heritage pg. 358-362

4. PLACE

Art in Theory 1900-1990, Charles Harrison, Paul Wood editors, Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Oxford, Cambridge 1992 Richard Serra, from the Yale Lecture pg. 1124-1127
Arguing About Art, Alex Neill, Aaron Ridley editors, Routledge, London, NY, 2002 Transcript of a Hearing to decide the future of Tilted Arc pg. 429-435
Critical Space, Andrea Zittel, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, Prestel Verlag, Munich, Berlin, London, NY, 2005 New Deeds: A Frontier Practice by Robert Cook pg. 31-35
Land and Environmental Art, Jeffrey Kastner editor, Phaidon press, London, NY 1998 Mel Chin, Revival Field pg. 264-265
The Writings of Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt editor, New York University Press, NY 1979 Earth pg. 160-167

5. NEW MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY

But is it art?, Cynthia Freeland, Oxford University Press, NY, 2001 Digitizing and Disseminating pg. 177-205
Art in Theory 1900-1990, Charles Harrison, Paul Wood editors, Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Oxford, Cambridge 1992 Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical reproduction pg. 512-520; Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, excerpts pg. 738-741; Jean Baudrillard, The Hyper-realism of Simulation pg. 1049-1051
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Kristine Stiles, David Selz editors, University of California Press, Berkeley, London, Los Angeles, 1996 Myron Krueger, Response is the Medium excerpt from Responsive Environments pg. 481-482
Art In the Age of Spiritual Machines, G.H. Hovagimyan, appeared in Leonardo Vol 34 No 5 pp.453-458 2001
On the future of art; essays by Arnold J. Toynbee [and others] Introd. by Edward F. Fry, Viking Press, NY, 1970 Burnham, J. W. “The Aesthetics of Intelligent Systems.” pg. 95-122.
Art @ Science, C. Sommerer and L. Mignonneau editors, Springer, Wien, NY 1998 Peter Weibel, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Methodological Convergence of Art and Science pg. 174-178

6. TIME

Unnatural Wonders, Arthur Danto, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY 2005 The World as a Warehouse: Fluxus and Philosophy pg 333-341
Monumental Achievement, by Robert F Howe in Smithsonian, November 2002 pg 91-99


7. BODY

Mona Hatoum Domestic Disturbance, Laura Steward editor, Mass MOCA and SITE Santa Fe 2001 Mona Hatoum interviewed by Jenine Antoni pg 19-32
Corporal Politics exhibition catalog, MIT List Visual Arts Center 1993 Thomas Laqueur: Clio Looks at Corporal politics pg 14-21;
Helaine Posner: Separation Anxiety pg 22-30
The Artists Body, Tracey Warr and Amelia Jones editors, Phaidn Press, London, 2000 RoseLee Goldberg, Here and Now pg 246
Space, Time, and Perversion, Elizabeth Grosz, Routledge, Ny, London, 1995 Bodies-Cities pg 103-110

8. LANGUAGE

Jenny Holzer, Michael Auping, Universe Publ. 1992 pg 17-40
Jenny Holzer, Diane Waldman, Guggenheim Fund, with Harry N. Abrams Inc. NY 1989 Diane Waldman, The Language of Signs pg 9-14
Leave any information at the signal: Ed Ruscha, Edited by Alexandra Schwartz, MIT press, Cambridge, London, 2002 Patricia Failing: Ed Ruscha, Young Artist pg 225-237

9. SPIRITUALITY

The Accidental Masterpiece, Michael Kimmelman, Penguin Press, NY 2005 The Art of Having a Lofty Perspective
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Kristine Stiles, David Selz editors, University of California Press, Berkeley, London, Los Angeles, 1996 Jesse Helms, Senator Helms Protests pg. 273-274; Andres Serrano, Letter to the NEA pg. 280-281
But is it art?, Cynthia Freeland, Oxford University Press, NY, 2001 Defending Serrano pg. 18-21
Wolfgang Laib A Retrospective, Klaus Ottman, American federation of Arts and Hatje Cantz Publishers 2000 Modest Propositions, Margit Rowell pg. 25-39
Idiosyncratic Identities, Donald Kuspit, Cambrindge University Press, NY 1996 Wolfgang laib’s Mystical revolution pg. 147-152
Bill Viola, exhibition catalog, Whitney Museum in association with Flammarion Paris, NY, 1998 Conversation, excerpt, Lewis Hyde and Bill Viola pg 143-150

10. CONTEXT

But is it art?, Cynthia Freeland, Oxford University Press, NY, 2001 Money Markets, Museums pg. 90-121
Air Guitar, Dave Hickey, Art issues. Press ; New York : Distributed by D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers), 1997 Dealing pg 102-113
Criticizing Art, Terry Barrett, Mayfield Publishing Co, Mountain View, California, London, Toronto, 2000 Theory and Art Criticism pg. 29-62

11. MUSEUMS

Money, Markets, Museums, Cynthia Freeland, But is it art? Oxford University Press 2001 Pg. 90-121
Lee Rosenbaum: The SAM: A Work in Progress, The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2007