SAA 10: Arts Encounters: Exploring Arts Literacy in the Twenty-First Century
Syllabus
General Readings
THESE ARE ONLY SAMPLES. In consultation with the visiting lecturer/performer, specific readings will be chosen for each of our weekly explorations. What follows below are general texts that deal with general issues addressed by the course. We will excerpt from these throughout the quarter, posting to the class website where feasible.
Mayne, Thom, Morphosis: Buildings and Projects, 1993-1997 (New York: Rizzoli, 1999). Essays by Thom Mayne, Tony Robins, Anthony Vidler.
Vidler, Anthony, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992).
Bell, Julian, What is painting?: Representation and Modern Art (New York : Thames and Hudson, 1999).
Buck, Louisa, Relative values, or, What's art worth? (London : BBC Books, c1991).
Caws, Mary Ann, Robert Motherwell : What art holds (New York: Columbia University Press, c1996).
Dissanayake, Ellen, What is art for? (Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1988).
Hughes, Robert, American visions: What America's greatest art reveals about
our national character (New York : Time Inc., c1997).
Keeble, Brian, Art : for whom and for what? (Ipswich : Golgonooza Press, c1998).
Little, James Stanley, What is art? (London : W. S. Sonnenschein & co., 1884).
Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910), What is art?: and essays on art, translated by Richard Pevear (London; New York: Penguin Books, 1995).
Fletcher, Peter and Picken, Laurence, World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the World's Major Musical Cultures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Schnabel, Tom, and Eno, Brian, Rhythm Planet: The Great World Music Makers (1998)
DiGaetani, John Louis, A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991).
Albright, Ann Cooper, Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance ([Middletown, Conn.]: Wesleyan University Press; Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1997).
Foster, Susan Leigh, Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1986).
Riley, Charles A., The saints of modern art: The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, Archietecture, Music, Dance, Literature, and Philosophy (Hanover: University Press of New England, c1998).
Laurel, Brenda, Computers as Theater (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1991).
Kelly, Kevin, Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1994.
Dery, Mark, Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century (Grove Press: New York, 1996).
Holtzman, Steven, Digital Mosaics: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997).
Murray, Janet Horowitz, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (New York: The Free Press, 1997).