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Table of Contents:
- Hilarious! On Comedy and the Sense of Humor
- Modernity and Modernism
- Video Art and Tele-Visual Culture
- Global Video, 1989 - Present
- Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Misc. Art History
Aristophanes, The Clouds, from Four Texts on Socrates, pp. 115 - 176
Artaud, Antonin, excerpts from Black Humor, pp.
Barber, C.L., “The Saturnalian Pattern in Shakespeare’s Comedy”
Ellison, Ralph, “An Extravagance of Laughter,” in Going to the Territory
Freud, Sigmund
"Creative Writers and Daydreaming," pp. 436 - 443
"Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning," pp. 215 - 225
Excerpts from Jokes and their Relationship to the Unconscious, pp.TBD
Hazlitt,William, Excerpts from Lectures on the English Comic Writers
Mizejewski, Linda, “Funniness, Prettiness, Feminism: Women and Comedy’s Body Politics”
Morreall, John
“Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Strange, and Other Reactions to Incongruity,”
Plato,
Excerpts from The Philebus, pp. 10 – 13
The Apology, in Four Texts on Socrates, pp. 63 – 97 (17a – 42a)
Willett, Cynthia, from Irony in the Age of Empire
“Ch. 1, Laughter Against Hubris: A Preemptive Strike,” 18 – 40
“Ch. 2, Laughing to Keep from Crying: Cornel West, Pragmatism, and Progressive Comedy,”
“Ch. 3, Authenticity in the Age of Satire: Ellison, Sartre, Bergson, and Spike Lee’s Bamboozled,”
Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography,
Ch. 1, The Sources of Modern Painting
Ch. 2, Realism Impressionism and Early Photography
Ch. 4, The Origins of Modern Architecture and Design
Ch. 5, Art Nouveau and the Beginnings of Expressionism
Ch. 6, The Origins of Modern Sculpture
Ch. 8 ,Expressionism in Germany
Ch. 9,The Figurative Tradition in Early 20th-Century Sculpture
Ch. 11, Futurism, Abstraction in Russia, and DeStijl
Ch. 12, Early 20th-Century Architecture
Ch. 13, From Fantasy to DADA and the New Objectivity
Ch. 14, The School of Paris After WWI
Ch. 16, Modern Architecture Between the Wars
Ch. 17, International Abstraction Between the Wars
Ch. 18, American Art Before WWII
Ch. 19, Abstract Expressionism and the New American Art
Ch. 21, Pop-Art and Europe's New Realism
Ch. 23, The Second Wave of International Style Architecture
Ch. 24a, The Pluralistic 70s, PART I
Ch. 24b, The Pluralistic 70s, PART II
Berger, Klaus, From Japonisme in Western Painting from Whistler to Matisse,
Ch.1: “The Background,” pp. 1 – 9
Ch. 3: “The Pre-Impressionist Pioneers, “pp. 20 - 64
Botton, Jerry, "A Global Renaissance," The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction, 19-37
Bowness, Alan, from Modern European Art,
Ch. 1: Manet and le Salon des Refuses: The Birth of Modern Art
Chadwick, Whitney, from Women, Art, and Society
Introduction: Art History and the Woman Artist
Ch. 4, Domestic Genres and Women Painters in Northern Europe
Ch. 5, Amateurs and Academics: A New Ideology of Feminity in France and England
Eisenman, Stephen (ed.) from Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History,
Ch. 3, The Tensions of Enlightenment: Goya, pp. 78 – 97
Ch. 8, The Generation of 1830 and the Crisis in the Public Sphere, pp. 188 – 206
Ch. 9, The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde, 206 - 224
Gombrich, E.H., The Story of Art
Ch. 11, Courtiers and Burghers
Ch. 12, The Conquest of Reality
Ch. 13, Tradition and Innovation I
Ch. 14, Tradition and Innovation II
Ch. 17, The New Learning Spreads
Pollock, Griselda, "The Female Hero and the Making of a Feminist Canon," 30 pages
Stockstad, Marilyn, Art History,
Selections on Rococo, Neo-Classicism, and Romanticism (as a single PDF)
Ch. 26, The 18th Century, Only 897-900, 902-907, 912-913, 919-927, 929-934
Appadurai, Arjun, Modernity At Large
Ch 2., Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy, 27 - 47
Bhabha, Homi, "Ch. 9, The Postcolonial and the Postmodern," The Location of Culture, 245-282
Bourriaud, Nicolas, "Globalization, National Identities, and the Production of Signs," 101-108
Bourriaud, Nicolas, The Radicant
"Ch. 1, Altermodernity," pp. 25 - 77
"Ch. 2, Radicant Aesthetics," pp. 79 - 140
Davis, Mike, "Planet of Slums," 20pgs.
Harraway, Donna, "A Cyborg Manifesto," p. 149 - 181
Identity Politics, from The Stanford Encylclopedia of Philosophy, pp. 1 - 15
Klein, Naomi, "The Other Shock Doctor (On Milton Friedman)," The Shock Doctrine, pp. 59 - 87
Levinson, "Hailing Judith Butler: Sex Without Sex, Queering the Market...," pp. 81 - 101
Machado, Arlindo, "Video Art: The Brazilian Adventure," pp. 225 - 231
McNally, David, Another World Is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism
"Ch. 2: Globalization: It Isn't About Free Trade," pp. 27 - 82
"Ch. 6: Democracy Against Capitalism," pp. 267 - 335
Nader, Ralph, "GATT, NAFTA, and the Subversion of the Democratic Process," pp. 92 - 107
Oliva, Achille, "The Globalization of Art," 41 - 48
Vine, Richard, New China, New Art
Zizek, Slavoj, "Multiculturalism, or the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism", 28 - 51
Birnbaum, Dara, in conversation with Cory Archangel, Art Forum, January 2009, pp. 191 - 198
Bourriaud, Nicolas, Post-Production
Ch. 1, The Use of Objects, pp. 23 - 32
Ch. 2, The Use of Forms, pp. 35 - 66
Foster, Hal, et al. "The Projected Image in Contemporary Art (roundtable discussion)," pp. 71 - 96
Golonu, Berin, et al, "Surveillance," Artweek, 2000, pp. 12 - 19
Hall, Doug and Pfeiffer, Sally Jo, "Introduction: The Complexities of An Art Form," pp. 13 - 27
Hanhardt, John, "Video / Media Culture of the Late 20th Century," pp. 20 - 25
Hill, Gary (about)
Krauss, Rosalind, "Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism," pp. 50 - 64
Kotz, Liz, "Video Projection: The Space Between the Screens," pp. 101 - 115
London, Barbara, "Time as Medium: Five Artist's Video Installations," pp. 423 - 426
London, Barbara, "Video Spaces: Eight Installations at MoMA," pp. 14 - 19
McLuhan, Marshall, "The Medium is the Message," p. 17 – 35
Saper, Craig, "Electronic Media Studies: From Video Art to Artificial Invention," pp. 114 - 134
Viola, Bill (about)
Townsend, Chris, "Call Me Old-Fashioned, But... " pp. 7 - 23
Wagner, Anne, "Performance, Video, and the Rhetoric of Presence," pp. 59 - 80
On - Line Resources for Other Texts About Video Art
Radical Software - the complete indexed magazine
Experimental Television Center: The Video History Project (with lots of excellent links!)
Benjamin, Walter, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," pp. 217 - 251
Bhabha, Homi, "Introduction" to The Location of Culture, pp. 1 - 27
Bishop, Claire, "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics," pp. 51 - 79
Bishop, Claire, "Mimetic Engulfment," from Installation Art, pp. 82 - 101
Bishop, Claire, "Heightened Perception," from Installation Art, pp. 48 - 81
Bourriaud, Nicolas, "Relational Form," pp. 10 - 24
Butler, Judith, "Subjects of Sex, Gender, Desire," Gender Trouble, pp. 1 - 34
Danto, "Art After the End of Art," pp. 115 - 128
Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Feliz, "Introduction: Rhizome," A Thousand Plateaus, pp.3 - 24
Derrida, Jacques, "Signature Event Context," 80 - 109
Derrida, Jacques, "The Law of Genre," pp. 55 - 81
Derrida, Jacques, "Parergon," from The Truth In Painting, pp. 17 - 147
Foster, Hal, "What's So Neo About the Neo-Avant-Garde?," pp. 5 - 32
Freud, "The Rat Man," pp. 5 - 81
Freud, "Creative Writers and Daydreaming," pp. 436 - 443
Freud, "Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning," pp. 215 - 225
Freud, "Remembering, Repeating, Working-Through," pp. 147 - 156
Freud, “Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis,” (excerpts), pp. 9 – 28
Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality, Chs. 1 and 2, pp. 17 - 49
Foucault, "History of Sexuality, Part 4: The Deployment of Sexuality,"
Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," pp. 5 - 22
Greenberg, "Modernist Painting," pp. 85 - 93
Heidegger, excerpts from Being and Time, #1 (as single PDf)
The Question of the Meaning of Being (TRT: 45 pages)
a) "The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being," pp. 21 - 35
b) "The Worldhood of the World," pp. 91 - 107
c) "Being-in-the-World as Being-Oneself: The 'They,'" pp. 153 - 168
Heidegger, excerpts from Being and Time, #2 (as single PDf)
Anxiety, Authenticity, and Being-Towards-Death (TRT: 45 pages)
a) "The Everyday Being of the There; and the Falling of Dasein," pp. 210 - 224
b) "Dasein's Possibility of Being-A-Whole, and Being-Towards-Death," pp. 279 - 311
Heidegger, "The Worldhood of the World," from Being and Time, pp.91 - 122
Heidegger, Martin, "The Origin of the Work of Art," pp. 17 - 78
Kant, Critique of Judgment, excerpts on Fine Art and Genius, pp. 170 - 189
Kant, Critique of Judgment, "The Analytic of the Beautiful," pp. 43 - 95
Kaprow, Alan, "The Education of the Un-Artist, Part I," pp. 97 - 109
Krauss, Rosalind, "Informe Without Conclusion," pp. 89 - 105
Lacan, "Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire,"
Lacan, "Signification of the Phallus," from Ecrits, pp. 574 - 584
Marx, Karl - Selections (One PDF):
Including:
"The Communist Manifesto," pp. 221 - 238,
"Alienated Labor," 77 - 96,
"The Fetishism of Commodities," pp. 435 - 439
Nietzsche, "Good and Bad v. Good and Evil," from The Genealogy of Morals, pp. 24 - 56
Mill, John Stuart - Selections (One PDF)
excerpts from Utilitarianism, pp. 6 - 25
excerpts from On Liberty, pp. 1 - 16, 53 - 71
Plato, The Symposium, (complete)
Thurber, James, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," pp. 1 - 3