Form and Content: Read/Listen/Events

View, read and listen:
Samantha Allen, “Form and Effect–Not Content: The Tension Between Form and Content in Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Continuous Replay by Bill T. Jones”
Catherine Schmidt-Jones, “Form in Music”
“Conceptual Art”
G.W.F. Hegel, “Lectures on Aesthetics, Part III: Of the Romantic Form of Art”
Caroline H. Dworin, “Hands that Speak, Hands that Rhyme”

Suggestions for group project:
• Debate and contrast 19th century Aestheticism art movement which centered on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, and that it need serve no political, didactic, or other purpose, and 20th century American puritan sensibilities that rejects any art form for its culturally controversial content.
• Explore this topic in a new work.
11/12-15, View one of the Modern Dance performances at the Juilliard School
New York City Opera to bring music to all five boroughs in 2008-2009 as the New York State Theater Undergoes Historic Renovation / NYC Opera

Class related events:
9/24@7:30PM BalletNY, Joyce Theater
10/2 @10:10AM Lecture demonstration by Dante Adela