Elaine O'Brien

Art 112 :: Contemporary Art

Study guides for Themes in Contemporary Art:

• Chapter 1: Inside the Whale (Paul Wood)
• Chapter 2: Conceptual Art, the aesthetic and the end(s) of art (Harrison)

Videos:

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  Gordon Matta-Clark exhibit walk-through with his widow, Jane from Howard Silver on Vimeo.">Gordon Matta Clark (from 2007 Whitney retrospective)
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  Zaha Hadid Interview -Chanel Pavilion from Howard Silver on Vimeo.">Zaha Hadid Interview

Readings

• Holland Cotter on the 1974 Lynda Benglis Artforum ad controversy
  
  
• Joseph Beuys on Fluxus
  
  
• Holland Cotter, The Boom is Over, Long Live the Art
  
  
• Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism (RTF)
  
  
• Sol Lewitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art  
  
  
• Jiro Yoshihara, The Gutai Manifesto (RTF)    placeholder
  
  
• Holland Cotter, The Collective Conscious
  
  
• Michael Fried, Art and Objecthood (excerpt)
  

• Wu Hung, On Contemporary Forms in Chinese Art and the Diachronic Approach of the 6th Gwanggju Biennale 2006
  
  
• Holland Cotter, Art and China's Revolution, NYTimes, 9/2008

• Cai Guo-Qiang: The Pyrotechnic Imagination
  
  
• Tara Donovan: The Genius of Little Things
  
  
• Ken Johnson, NYTimes, 12/2008: The Art Fair as Outlet Mall aceholder