Readings are due in preparation for the day they are listed.
Week 1 (8/28):
- Ovid, “Pygmalion,” from the Metamorphoses
- E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, selections
Week 2 (9/4):
- David Carrier, “Remembering the Past: Art Museums as Memory Palaces,” pp. 61-65
- Brian O’Doherty, “Inside the White Cube,” pp. 14-16, 26-28
- Dave Hickey, Air Guitar, pp. 10-14
- Ameena Walker, “New York’s best public art installations this season”
Week 3 (9/25):
- Roland Barthes, Camera Obscura, hard copy. Buy at the bookstore or Amazon.
Week 4 (10/2):
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, selections from The Mind’s Eye
- NYT: “Cartier-Bresson’s Scenes Unseen at Moma” (be sure to click through the slideshow!): https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/cartier-bressons-modern-century-at-moma/
- Valerie Jardin, selections from Street Photography
- NYT: Scenes Unseen: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/27/nyregion/newyork-parks-photos.html
Week 5 (10/9):
- Tim Carter, “What Is Opera?,” excerpts: 1-3 (stop at star), highlighted text on pg. 4, 5-10 (stop at star), 17-19
- Kristin M. Turner, “Opera in America After the Civil War: Many Languages and a Splintered Audience”
- John Dizikes, Opera in America, pp. 528-531
Week 6 (10/16):
- Catherine Clément, Opera, or the Undoing of Women, excerpts. In-class excerpt.
- Anne Midgette, “In Theater and Film, We Demand that Asian Roles be Played by Asian actors. Why is Opera Different?” Washington Post
- Edward Said, Orientalism, excerpts
Week 7 (10/23):
- Poem packet
- Begin reading Teju Cole, Open City
- Andrew Leland, “An Interview With Kate Soper,” Believer Magazine
Week 8 (10/30):
- Carrie Leigh Page and Dana Reason, “Playing Like a Girl,” New Music Box
- Anne Shreffler, “The Myth of the Canon’s Invisible Hand”
- Will Robin, “Opera is the New Black,” (listen to the sound files, too!)
- Wallace Dace, Opera as Dramatic Poetry, pp. 174-179
Week 9 (11/6):
- Teju Cole, Open City, pp. 1-146.
Week 10 (11/13):
- Teju Cole, Open City, pp. 146-end.
Week 11 (11/20): NO READING – STEAM festival work in class
Week 12 (11/27):
- Sophie Haigney, “Martha Rosler Isn’t Done Making Protest Art,” the New York Times
- Wilson Tarbox, “An Art School Started by Marc Chagall that Became a Modernist Wasteland,” Hyperallergic
- Jackie Wullschlager, “When Revolutionary Art Took Flight,” The Financial Times
- Candy Bedworth, “War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing! A Protest Art Story,” Daily Art Magazine
Week 13 (12/4):
- Alistair Good, “What is Life Like inside the Calais ‘Jungle’ Migrant Camp,” The Telegraph (be sure to watch the included video, too)
- Andrzej Lukowski, “The Journey from the Calais Jungle to the London Stage,” NYT
- David Conquergood, “Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture,” selections
- Mireille Rosello, “The Calais Jungle: Mediations of home” Nescus.
- NOTE: Focus on the first three sections of Rosello’s article–from the opening to “…abject exceptions who were not entitled to human rights”–and the final two sections: from “What was destroyed in Calais in October 2016?” to the end.