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e-Reserves at The College of St. Scholastica Library: ART 4126 - Art Theory

Reserve readings for your CSS classes.

e-Reserves for ART 4126 - Art Theory / Prof. Sarah Brokke

Baxandall, Michael. "The Language of Art History." New Literary History, vol. 10, no. 3, 1979, pp. 453-465.

Baxandall, Michael. “The Language of Art Criticism.” The Language of Art History, edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 67-75.
Greenberg, Clement. “Modernist Painting.” The New Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Gregory Battock, E.P. Dutton, 1966, pp. 101-110.
Steinberg, Leo. “Other Criteria.” Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford, 1972, pp. 55-91.
Clark, T. J. “Clement Greenberg’s Theory of Art.” Pollack and After: The Critical Debate, 2nd ed., edited by Francis Frascine, Routledge, 2000, pp. 71-86.
Fried, Michael. “How Modernism Works: A Response to T.J. Clark.” Pollack and After: The Critical Debate, 2nd ed., edited by Francis Frascine, Routledge, 2000, pp. 87-101.
Clark, T. J. “Arguments about Modernism: A Reply to Michael Michael Fried.” Pollack and After: The Critical Debate, 2nd ed., edited by Francis Frascine, Routledge, 2000, pp. 103-109.
Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema.” The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction, edited by Laurie Schneider Adams, IconEditions, 1996, pp. 21-47.
Harrison, Charles. “Contextual Approaches II: Feminism.” Art in Theory: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Blackwell, 1992, pp. 79-100.
Kaplan, E. Ann. “Is the Gaze Male.” Feminism and Film, edited by E. Ann Kaplan, Oxford, 2000, pp. 119-138.
Olin, Margaret. “Gaze.” Feminism and Film, edited by E. Ann Kaplan, Oxford, 2000, pp. 208-219.
“Semiotics II: Deconstruction.” Critical Terms for Art History, edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Schiff, University of Chicago, 1996, pp. 162-178.
Schneider Adams, Laurie. “What is an Author?” The Methodologies of Art, edited by Laurie Schneider Adams, IconEditions, 1996, pp. 113-138.
Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” Image Music Text, translated by Stephen Heath, Noonday Press, 1999, pp. 143-148.
Burke, Sean. “Introduction: A Prehistory of the Death of the Author.” The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity n Barthes, Focault and Derrida, Edinburgh University, 1992, pp. 8-19.
Walter, Benjamin. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Walter Benjamin, edited by Hannah Arendt, translated by Harry Zohn, Schocken Books, 1968, pp. 217-251.
Manovich, Lev. “The Paradoxes of Digital Photography.” Photography After Photography: Memory and Representation in the Digital Age, Art Stock, 1997, pp. 57-65.
Crow, Thomas. “Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol.” Reconstructing Modernism: Art in New York, Paris, and Montreal 1945-1964, edited by Guilbaut Serge, MIT Press, 1990, pp. 311-331.
D'Alleva, Anne. “Thinking About Art.” Methods & Theories of Art History, 2nd ed., Laurence King Publishing, 2012, pp. 5-15.
D'Alleva, Anne. “Form, Symbol, and Sign.” Methods & Theories of Art History, 2nd ed., Laurence King Publishing, 2012, pp. 16-45.
D'Alleva, Anne. “Psychology and Perception.” Methods & Theories of Art History, 2nd ed., Laurence King Publishing, 2012, pp. 88-117.