Further Read/View
This is a list of suggested material for further reading and viewing related to material covered and topics discussed for each class:
Class #1, TH 1/24 (Introductions)
• Read: “The Felt Hat: A Life Told” by Joseph Beuys (german artist who argued for a democratization of art, advocating for an integration of art/eduction/life — among other things). “Homo Aestheticus” by Ellen Dissanayake (great book that arguing that humans selected the ‘art gene’ as a means for survival).
• Links:Learning To Love You More (miranda july, et al. site with lots of interesting assignments and ideas about art and the creative process)
Class #2, TUE 1/29 (Intro to Computer Lab)
Class #3, TH 1/31 (Futurism, DADA, Surrealists)
• Read: Ariticle about “Ballet Mechanique,” by Paul D Lehrman, as well as an article about Lehrman’s work synchronizing the film to Georges Anthiel’s original soundtrack for the fist time in Sound on Sound magazine.
• View: Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s “L’age D’or” (Age of Gold, 1930), and “Un Chien Andalou” (Andalusian Dog, 1929), and Alejandro Jodoworski’s “Holy Mountain” (1973). He is a contemporary, far-out, Surrealist-esque visionary filmmaker. I highly recommended this film!).
• Links: The Surrealism Centre; Also, a good article on the Futurists entitled “Bring Da Noise: A Brief Survey of Sound Art“ from the American Music Center’s online magazine “NewMusicBox“; Also these: DADA on the Web; The Essential DADA; DADA List of Artworks by Title; and The International DADA Archive.
Class #4, TUE 2/5 (Constructivism/Collage and Montage)
• Czech book covers from the 20’s and 30’s at Smithsonian web site
• World Socialist Web site article on Alexander Rodchenko
• Russian Avant Garde Heritage Preservation Foundation
• Two films by Dziga Vertov: “Kino Eye” and “Three Songs About Lenin”Class #5, TH 2/7 (Fluxus and the American Avant-Garde)
• Read: “The Fluxus Reader” by Ken Friedman; “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings” by Yoko Ono; “The Felt Hat: A Life Told” by Joseph Beuys;
• Links: The Centre of Attention, London (enquiry into the phenomenon of art production, presentation, consumption and heritage-ization); Forty Years of Fluxus by Ken Friedman; The FLUXUS portal for the Internet