Required Texts and Materials
1) Berger, Maurice. The Crisis of Criticism. New York: The New York Press, 1998.
2) Winterson, Jeanette. Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery. New York: Vintage, 1995.
* Other assigned texts will either be handed out or accessed on the class website.
Complimentary & Recommended Reading / Websites:
Below are several links that you will find useful throughout the semester, as complimentary readings and or visuals to your assigned readings and essays. These readings are not required, but may be helpful to you in understanding the overall context of many of your required readings and/or assignments. I will continue to add to this list throughout the semester, so keep checking back. Please notify me of any missing or broken links.
Jeanette Winterson's Home website: since we'll be reading more of her work this semester, you might want to browse around her website, which is loaded with all kinds of interesting places, visuals, and even a discussion board.
La Pocha Nostra: Performance Art for the New Millenium: Official page for Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra . . .
CommunityArts Network Reading Room: The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information.
Cartoons and Comic Strips:
Pat Oliphant's Anthem: Pat Oliphant won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1966, only two years after leaving his native Australia and coming to the United States. Oliphant has caricatured seven United States presidents and challenged many with his graphic commentary on numerous political and social issues. At this Library of Congress site, you can view some of his most influential cartoons of the past three decades.
Ann Telnaes - Editorial Cartoonist: Born in Sweden, Ann Telnaes' editorial cartoons are syndicated with Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate/ New York Times Syndicate. Her work has appeared in such prestigious publications as The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Le Monde, Courrier International, The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The New York Times, Austin American Statesman,The American Prospect and Ms magazine. Telnaes also contributes an exclusive weekly cartoon to Women's eNews, an online news service.
McGrath, Ben. "Why do editors keep throwing “The Boondocks” off the funnies page?" The New Yorker, 2004-04-19: " On the day of Saddam Hussein's capture, last December, the left-leaning political weekly The Nation celebrated its hundred-and-thirty-eighth birthday. It was a Sunday night, and the weather was dreadful—forbiddingly cold and wet, heavy snow giving way to sleet—but three hundred people could not be deterred from dropping five hundred dollars a plate for roast chicken amid the marble-and-velvet splendor of the Metropolitan Club . . .".
The Boondocks: Aaron McGruder's "The Boondocks" reflects the racial diversity and complexity of our world. Combining childhood antics with contemporary political and social satire, the strip explores the terrain where dashikis and Brand Nubian CDs meet The Gap and Hanson.
Cagle Cartoons: A great source for political cartoons and "provocative pundits."
Walt Handelsman's Political Cartoons: A Newsday editorial cartoonist, he creates new scathing political (and other editorial cartoons) regularly.
Book Reviews:
Below are links to book reviews that exemplify some of the issues that we will be talking about in class. Please peruse through them, as you can, to get an idea about how reviewers write about some of the topics we are talking about in class and approach the various arts and media we are exploring. While I've put these links under categories, many of these reviews would fall under multiple categories; in most instances, I've chosen a category for these reviews that I either feel best exemplifies a certain topic/theme or is helpful to our discussion.
Victim & Issue-Oriented Art
A Lost Generation: Heather Lewis's posthumous novel reanimates a movement unfairly dismissed as victim art.
Some other reviews of Bill T. Jones' work:
Research & Resource Websites:
Bedford St. Martin's Research and Documentation Online: Useful literary resource for finding other research materials when doing major papers. Contains databases, indexes, websites, and references books for literature.
MLA citations: How to cite sources within your paper!
MLA manuscript format: formatting, pagination, long quotes, etc. |
