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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
history of art
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Noam Gal
Coordinator Office Hours:
TBD
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Noam Gal
Course/Module description:
Recently we are witnessing various new attempts to formulate philosophical and critical terms for contemporary art. Their common basis is the question of defining concepts like “now”, “contemporary” and “new”, especially in relation to the concepts “modern”, “postmodern” and “avant-garde”. In this course we wish to investigate these issues through the main thinkers that paved the way to offer contemporary theory of art, along with particular major contemporary artworks. In this context, we will be required to consider our own role as spectators and visitors in the spaces of display of art. Various theories of spectatorship will help us understand the function of viewers in the signification of art today, in shifting the political context of the artwork and even participating in its economic and cultural evaluation.
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Completing the course would enable students to analyze works of contemporary art using the major texts and terms in the philosophy of art written today.
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
course is offered at the galleries and collections of the Israel Museum
Course/Module Content:
session 1: Introduction - joint spectatorship
session 2: Spectators and Publics today
session 3: Viewing Spaces and other White Cubes
session 4: The flawed beginning of contemporary art
session 5: Art History versus Contemporary Art
session 6: Competing meanings of "Now"
session 7: The last Avant-guarde
session 8: Postmodernism against Postminimalism
session 9: The end of site-specific art
session 10: Short history of Performance
session 11: The Artworld and the World
session 12: Economies of contemporary art
session 13: Studio visit
Required Reading:
Irit Rogoff, “Looking Away: Participation in Visual Culture”, in: After Criticism, 2005
Claire Bishop, "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics", October 110 (Fall 2004), 51-79.
Brian O’Doherty, Inside the White Cube: the Ideology of the gallery space (Berkeley: UC Press, 1976), 7-12, 35-64.
Alexander Alberro. “Periodizing Contemporary Art?”, in: Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 , Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung (eds.), Blackwell 2012, pp. 64-71
Terry Smith. “The State of Art History: Contemporary Art”, The Art Bulletin 92(4), 2010, 366-383
Peter Bürger, The Theory of the Avant-Guarde, trans. Michael Shaw (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), pp. 55-83
Peter Osborne. "The Fiction of the Contemporary", in: Anywhere or Not At All, (Verso, 2013), 1-36; 117-132.
Stephen Wright. “Behind Police Lines: Art Visible and Invisible”, Art and Research 2 (1), 2008, 110-121.
Tim Griffin. "Global Tendencies: Globalism and the Large-Scale Exhibition", roundtable for Artforum, November 2003, pp. 1-25
Miwon Kwon. “Notes on Site Specificity”, October 80, 1997, 85-110
Peggy Phelan. “Marina Abramovic: Witnessing Shadows”, Theater Journal 56(4), 2004, 569-577
Amelia Jones. "The Artist is Present: Artistic Reenactments and the Impossibility of Presence", TDR 55(1), 2011, 16-45
Paul O'Neill. "The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse", in: Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance, J. Rugg and M. Sedgwick eds. (London: Intelect Ltd, 2012), 13-28.
Sol Lewitt. “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art”, Artforum (June, 1967), 50-57
פיטר בירגר, תיאוריה של האוונגרד, תרגם: רועי בר (ת"א: רסלינג, 2007) [קטעים נבחרים באתר הקורס]
תיאודור אדורנו ומקס הורקהיימר. "תעשיית תרבות: נאורות כהונאת המונים", בתוך: אסכולת פרנקפורט (מבחר), תרגם: דוד ארן (הוצאת פועלים, 1993), 158-198
האל פוסטר. "מדיומים לאחר המינימליזם", בתוך: אמנות, אדריכלות: סיבכת קשרים, תסבוכת, תסביך , תרגמה: אסתר דותן, (ת"א: פיתום, 2013), פרק 4.
בוריס גרויס. "על החדש", "על האוצרות", בתוך: כוח האמנות, תרגמה: אסתר דותן (ת"א: פיתום, 2010), 29-50, 51-62
רוזלינד קראוס. "פיסול בשדה המורחב", מוזות 5/6 1989, עמ' 55-50
רוברט מוריס. "הערות על פיסול", המדרשה 9 (יוני 2006), 37-48
פרדריק ג'יימסון, פוסטמודרניזם או ההיגיון התרבותי של הקפיטליזם המאוחר (רסלינג, 2008), עמ' 17-43
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Participation in Tutorials 40 %
Project work 60 %
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Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
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