Schedule and Assignments
Fall 2011 Schedule…Subject to adjustment as needed. Each week we’ll be assigning reflections to post here on the site–so beyond the readings (and videos) listed below, there are also writing assignments (usually brief and informal) which we will develop in class.
- Week 1 (August 30, September 1–Note: Professor Ugoretz will be out of town August 30. and September 1 We will be meeting on August 24 instead, during orientation, and Jenny Kijowski, ITF, will be working with you on August 30th)
- Who are We?
- Introductory Exercises and Photobooth Profiles (posted by September 5)
- Week 2 (September 6 and September 8 )
- What is Art? What is an Artist?
- Why Look at Art?
- Art:21 – Jeff Koons (video)
- Art:21 – Yinka Shonibare (video)
- Duchamp and the Ready-Mades (video)
- Levine, Untitled (After Edward Weston, ca. 1925) (video)
- Week 3 (September 13 and September 15)
- What is Beauty?
- Polykleitos, Diadoumenos (video)
- Botticelli, Birth of Venus (video)
- Gérôme, Pygmalion and Galatea (video)
- Degas, Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub (video)
- Beautiful Music. Find it and tell us how
- Week 4 (September 20 and September 22)
- Context Matters: Churches, Museums, and the Function of Art
- Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (video)
- The Museum
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (video)
- The First Impressionist Exhibition
- Smithson, Spiral Jetty (video)
- Justinian and His Attendants (video)
- Selections from Trauma At Home: After 9/11
- Andrea D. Fitzpatrick, “The Movement of Vulnerability: Images of Falling and September 11”
- Week 5 (September 27. No class on September 29)
- Art for memory and memorial
- Visit to September 11 Memorial (directions)
- Week 6 (October 6)
- Continuing Memory and Memorial
- Maya Lin on Art21 (and read this)
- What does photography tell us?
- “Viewfinder” by Ethan Canin and “The Photograph” by N. Scott Momaday (these are on a password-protected page. I will give you the password in class).
- American Memory Project
- Week 7 (October 11 and October 13)
- Telling stories and more on Photography
- Visit to ICP (on Thursday, October 13, we will meet at ICP–the International Center of Photography at 4:30 PM. DO NOT BE LATE! Meet in front–1133 6th Avenue and 43rd Street. Directions are on this page. We will stay until 530 or 6 PM when the museum closes. BRING YOUR CULTURAL PASSPORT (otherwise you will have to pay for admission).
- Week 8 (October 18 no class October 20, since we will be traveling all day on October 23)
- Performing the Body (finishing up photography and preparing for Dia Beacon)
- Lewis W. Hine’s Powerhouse Mechanic Eastman House podcast.
- Trip to Dia Beacon for Contemporary Art and Dance/Performance–October 23 all day.
- Meet at 915 SHARP at the clock in Grand Central Terminal (it looks like this). If you are not there by 940, we WILL leave without you. And before you go, look at the “No Manifesto.”
- We will return to Grand Central at around 430 PM.
- Week 9 (October 25 and October 27)
- The Body and Gender
- Gentileschi’s Self Portrait (video)
- Ingres, La Grand Odalisque (video)
- Manet, Olympia (reading and video)
- Cassat, The Loge (video)
- Some Male and Female Body Beauty Thoughts
- Week 10 (November 1 and November 3)
- Why the Arts in New York City? Urban Art and Art of the Urban
- Week 11 (November 8 and November 10)
- Pulling it Together. What do we value, what do we love?
- EB White’s “Here is New York” (on the password protected page)
- Week 12 (November 15 and November 17)
- Week 13 (November 22. No class on November 24)
- Preparing for the Opera. Who watches? Who doesn’t? What can Faust say to us?
- Week 14 (November 29 and December 1)
- Art, Science, and Opera
- Faust at the Metropolitan Opera on November 29. No class that afternoon
- Week 15 (December 6 and December 8 )
- Aesthetic Interactions completed and shared
- Recurations posted
