classwork

Jan. 26
introduction

Jan. 28
Kress, Introduction: the grammar of visual design

Feb. 2
Kress, Chapter 1: The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication //(note - this slide show also covers the introduction & Chapter 2//) semiotics vs. grammar

Feb 4,
Kress, Chapter 2: Narrative representation: designing social actions

Feb 9
Kress, Chapter 3: Conceptual representations: designing social constructs

Feb. 11
Kress, Chapter 4: Representation and interaction: designing the position of the viewer

Feb. 16
Kress, Chap 5: Modality: designing models of reality

Feb. 18 - 23
Review Kress, Ch. 1-5

Feb. 25
//Intro to Thorton, Art World//
 * 3 part history of painting

Feb. 28
Reading Images paper due

March 2, 4
Thornton, Art World: The Auction
 * Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
 * Marx- [|The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof]
 * 'What Do Pictures "Really" Want?', W. J. T. Mitchell
 * Visual Culture Questionnaire

March 9, 11
Thornton, Art World: The Crit
 * "Welcome to the Cultural Revolution," Rosalind Krauss
 * Rosalind Krauss, Wikipedia
 * subjects of desire
 * Greenberg's "Avant Garde and Kitsch"
 * modernism (art)
 * Michael Fried

March 16, 18
//Spring Break//

March 23, 25
Thornton, Art World: The Fair Francis Stark Murakami - 727-727 Sophie Calle - Room with a View Hirst - the shark
 * Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
 * art installation proposal due, March 23
 * "Rescuing Art from 'Visual Culture Studies'" Michelle Marder Kamhi
 * exemplary art slide show
 * Great Art: Top 50 posters slide show>

March 30, April 1
Thornton, Art World: The Prize
 * What Art Is and Where it Belongs, Paul Chan
 * **[|The Uncanny]**, Freud
 * [|Approaching Abjection], Julia Kristeva
 * [|Abjection/abjectivism : post-humanist uses of abjection] Allan Lloyd-Smith

April 6, 8
Thornton, Art World: The Magazine

April 13, 15
Thornton, Art World: The Studio Visit
 * art installation due, April 13

April 20, 22
Thornton, Art World: The Magazine

April 27, 29
Thornton, Art World: The Studio Visit

May 4, 6
Thornton, Art World: The Biennale
 * __Final installation proposal due - May 4__

May 11
last day of class

May 17
final exam 10:15 -12:15
 * __Final installation due__