For those of you interested, here are the texts I am using for my Visiting Artist Seminar Classes. Many of them can be found in the MassArt Library, and also the articles are available on the JSTOR database.
REQUIRED TEXTS
James Elkins WHAT PAINTING IS
Mira Schor WET: On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture
David Batchelor CHROMOPHOBIA
REQUIRED ESSAYS
W.E.B. DuBois "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" from THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
Cornell West "The New Cultural Politics of Difference" from OUT THERE: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures
Walter Benjamin THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION
Susan Buck-Morss AESTHETICS AND ANAESTHETICS: Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered
Sol LeWitt SENTENCES ON CONCEPTUAL ART & PARAGRAPHS ON CONCEPTUAL ART
Cornell West "The New Cultural Politics of Difference" from OUT THERE: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures
Walter Benjamin THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION
Susan Buck-Morss AESTHETICS AND ANAESTHETICS: Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered
Sol LeWitt SENTENCES ON CONCEPTUAL ART & PARAGRAPHS ON CONCEPTUAL ART
RECOMMENDED
Gerhard Richter ATLAS
Charlotte Mullins PAINTING PEOPLE: Figure Painting Today
Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz THEORIES AND DOCUMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Agnes Martin WRITINGS
VITAMIN P: New Perspectives in Painting
VITAMIN D: New Perspectives in Drawing
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I am rendered speechless at this honor.
For my landmark piece, "The Work of Art....(1936)" to be up for open forum discussion by intellects and aesthetes of The Inter-Web, and students from your institution of higher learning.
Please, do not hesitate to visit me at http://www.myspace.com/theghostofwalterbenjamin
for the most up-to-date observations at the state of the world, vis-a-vis "Internet Culture" today.
I harbor most congenial feelings toward each one of you (you, and your impending students), and nurture petite hopes, deep within the annals of my being...
that this has not been too forward, and that this first email may prove portentous of future intellectual connections.
Perhaps you will aid in my explorations and subsequent Crusades, as it were.
Regards,
Walter Benjamin
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