Writing Contemporary Art
Advanced—Year
This course takes as its object the varieties of text that are produced within the ambit of what philosopher Arthur Danto calls the “artworld.” We will be reading art works, criticism, history, memoirs—texts that can be literal, poetic, logical, experimental, encyclopedic or monosyllabic, “orate” or literate, open, imperative, ekphrastic. Authors range from Gertrude Stein to David Antin, from George Brecht to Mary Kelly, from Donald Judd to Rosalind Krauss. Exercises range from haiku to catalogue essay.
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