Viewing Notes

After watching the materials, please choose at least three of them, and write a viewing note containing
comments and critical observations.

Yve-Alain Bois, “What is there to see? On a Painting by Ad Reinhardt,” (Links to an external site.) MoMA Members Quarterly (Summer 1991).
Silvia Simoncelli, “Interview with Wade Guyton,” (Links to an external site.) On Curating 20: Total Abstraction (October 2013).

Please watch the following prior to our class:
Agnes Martin (Links to an external site.)by the Tate Modern, 2015
Judd: Virtual Walkthrough (Links to an external site.) by the Museum of Modern Art, 2020

  1. Commonplace (2/3)
    Roland Barthes, “That Old Thing, Art…” (1980) in Pop Art: A Critical History, ed. Steve Henry Madoff (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 370–4.
    Kent Minturn, “Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art by Michael Lobel,” (Links to an external site.) Archives of American Art Journal 44 (2004): 47-51.

Please watch the following prior to our class:
Andy Warhol: A Retrospective (Links to an external site.) by the Tate Modern, 2020
Interview with Jeff Koons (Links to an external site.) by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1988

The ideas and discussions base on the topic and context.

Eva Hesse (Links to an external site.), a film by Marcie Begleiter (2016)

Omar Fast on his 2002 video CNN Concatenated (Links to an external site.), and anexcerpt (Links to an external site.).

Jenny Holzer, (Links to an external site.)One-Liner (Links to an external site.), 2012 (Links to an external site.)

Barbara Kruger: Part of Discourse (Links to an external site.), 2018

Ho Tzu Nyen, (Links to an external site.)The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (Links to an external site.), 2016- (Links to an external site.)

Bruce Nauman, (Links to an external site.)Wall-Floor Positions (Links to an external site.), 1968 (Links to an external site.)

The Cremaster Cycle: Conversation (Links to an external site.) with Matthew Barney, 2004

James Crump, Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art (Links to an external site.), 2015

The Canary Project, (Links to an external site.)Field Notes from the Gowanus (Links to an external site.), 2011-2013 (Links to an external site.), and a shortdocumentary (Links to an external site.)

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