Yale University School of Art: Art529b

ART 529B RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Painting 529b, Research and Development

Research and Development Painting 529b, Research and Development This seminar focuses on process and analysis. Intended primarily for first year graduate students, class sessions focus on discussions on work students are currently developing, augmented by examinations of artists and critical writing. One primary aim of this course is to look at and question the way artworks transmit information and how process, context, style, back-story, and allusion can for-ground this reception. Various critical methodologies from the 20th century will be examined including phenomenology, hermeneutics, and reception theory. Issues of taste, quality, and beauty will be interrogated. Students will be required to share and explore: processes of information gathering; the potentials and pitfalls of stylistic and historical reference in their work; various strategies of preparatory studies and processes. Among a handful of small assignments, students will be asked to create two booklets: one focusing on the research of a subject separate from their own art, the other a users guide, key, atlas, or index of their current artistic practice. Open to all MFA students. George Rush

Readings Used in 2009:

Holland Cotter; Wade Guyton; New York Times; December 14, 2007

John Yau; Wade Guyton, Brooklyn Rail; December, 2007

Roland Barthes; Myth Today and assorted Mythologies; Mythologies

Edward Said; Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community; The Anti-Aesthetic

bell hooks, Representing Whiteness, Seeing Wings of Desire; Yearning

Terry Eagleton, selected chapters, Literary Theory

Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp and Against Interpretation, Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Lauren Collins, Fuck Frank Gehry, Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, June 4 2007

David Foster Wallace, David Lynch Keeps His Head, A Supposedly Fun Thing Iâ??ll Never Do Again

Jonathan Lethem, The Beards, The Disappointment Artist and Other Essays

Jaques Lacan, Seminar on the Purloined Letter, Ecrits

Edgar Allen Poe, The Purloined Letter

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