May 2

Dan Graham

Homes for America 1966 photograph

Homes for America Detail

Paul McCarthy talks about Heidi
Paul Mccarthy,Heidi 1992

4 Utopian Communities That Bombed Miserably

Ghost Colonies: Failed Utopias, Forgotten Exiles and Abandoned Outposts of Empire by Ed Wright

rev·o·lu·tion   /ˌrɛvəˈluʃən/ Show Spelled
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1. an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
2. Sociology . a radical and pervasive change in society and the social structure, especially one made suddenly and often accompanied by violence. Compare social evolution.
3. a sudden, complete or marked change in something: the present revolution in church architecture

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–noun
1. an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.
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–adjective
2. of or pertaining to activism or activists: an activist organization for environmental concern.
3. advocating or opposing a cause or issue vigorously, especially a political cause: Activist opponents of the President picketed the White house.

April 25th

Agnes Denes



Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley, Field for the British Isles, 1993. Terracotta, overall size variable, each figure 80-260mm. © Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery

Ilya Kabakov the palace of project

April 11

Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Future Monument
Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet


Wochenklausur

Interventionist Art by MassMoCA

Destruction of Ai Weiwei's studio

april 4th

Censorship to the Internet

Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States

Utopia Ohio
Ironic?

Buckminster Fuller
1
2
3

March 14

Trouble in Utopia

Blade Runner Replicants

From Modernism to
Hypermodernism and Beyond
An Interview with Paul Virilio

Jean Baudrillard

Surrogates

Gamer

March 7th

Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Claude Levi-Strauss Structrual Anthropology

Roland Barthes "The Death of the Author"

The Anthropic Principle

Remodernist Manifesto

Feb. 28

Kurt Schwitters Poem
Getting Around

"Inspiration," the false artist says,
"it just comes to me." And it shows.
His pictures are as like as the four walls of his room
-- morning, evening, midnight, noon.

For myself, I have to search for it.
The whole world is your palate,
but only if you reach,
take hold of what you need and pocket it.

I've walked every street of this town,
know every crumbling curb,
old bullets' pockmarks in the brick,
the unsifted rubbish piles where treasures
sometimes rise from the ashes.

In getting around, the first thing
is to be able to stop.
That's why I rely on my bicycle --
a sturdy old clunker, no gears or gadgets
to let me down far from home,
but a basket of course,
to carry pockets' overflow.

If you must take the train
go fourth class, ride the local.
Avoid motor cars and express trains.

Get to know your travelling companions
and don't dwell on your destination.
Remember, at any station you may step down
stay the night or the morning
rummage in a flea market or listen to gossip.

The whole world is your palate.
But only if you touch it -- take hold! A note on airplanes, airships, dirigibles:
As already stated, in getting around
the first thing is to be able to stop.

from the Contemporary American Poetry Archive




Merz Picture 25A: The Star Picture, 1920
Montage, collage and oil on cardboard, 104.5 x 79 cm

A Way of Proceeding: Joseph Beuys, the Epistemological Break and Radical Thought Today


CLIVE BELL "The Aesthetic Hypothesis"



Saint-Denis Cathedral, Gothic, founded 1137 by Abbot Suger


Daniel Buren, Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Levels), Paris 1986 Installation

Feb 21st

Urszula Dubdziak

Elaine Sturtevant

Worlds first collabrative sentence

Fredrick Jameson

Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of
Late Capitalism
The Cultural Turn two sections of the first chapter... Helps shed a little light on the postmodern

Morris, Judd, & Fried

Michael Fried I often find it helpful to know a bit about the author of a criticism. Sometimes you can see his or her biases or contextualize their thoughts with our own time.

Further Information on Michael Fried

Donald Judd made some exquisite peices of art but can you identify them take the DONALD JUDD QUIZ


DONALD JUDD

UNTITLED (77/23 – BERNSTEIN), 1977


Donald Judd
Untitled
c.1975
Concrete



Donald JUDD Untitled
[Six boxes]


six brushed aluminum hollow rectangles set at 14-inch intervals,by Donald Judd, 1978-9

Robert Morris Interview


Ring with Light,
1965-96
painted wood and fibreglass and fluorescent light



Robert Morris, Untitled (Mirrored Cubes), 1965



Robert Morris, Slab (platform) 1973

Tom Friedman Untiltled, 1995, wooden toothpicks


Tim Noble & Sue Webster
Real Life Is Rubbish, 2002


Lauren Berkowitz, Buffalo Dateline, 1995, Telephone books, wire, staples


Richard Deacon


Ursula von Rydingsvard, "Droga", 2009. Cedar, graphite, 54 x 115 x 219 inches

Post Modern Sculpture

Jeff Koons, Puppy, Steel, soil, plants,1992



Anish Kapoor, Cloud Gate, 2004, Millennium Park, Chicago


Patricia Piccinini, we are family, 2003


Patricia Piccinini, The Long Awaited (2008)
Silicone, fibreglass, human hair, leather, plywood, clothing


Doug Fishbone, pile of bananas in Trafalgar square, 2008

Modern sculpture

Pablo Picasso, Bull 1958, Plywood, tree branch, nails, and screws


David Smith cubi XVII, XVII, XIX 1963--1964 steel


Alberto Giacometti,L'HOMME QUI MARCHE 1960, cast bronze


Constantin Brancusi, Endless Column, 1938, cast iron and steel


Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1923 Marble