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Art Theory & Criticism

Artist Statement Grading Rubric (adapted from GYST guidelines, below)

Artist’s Statement Guidelines from School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC)

Sample Artist Statement (GYST)

Artist Statement Guidelines (GYST)

Color (selections from Colour [Documents of Contemporary Art)

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (excerpt)

Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spritual in Art (entire)

Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, 1998 (English, 2002)

Arthur Danto, “Introduction: Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary”

Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting”

Arthur Danto, "Painting and the Pale of History: The Passing of the Pure"

Hélène Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1976)

Immanuel Kant, "On The Aesthetical Judgment" excerpts from The Critique of Judgment

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

Walter Benjamin, "The Author as Producer" (1936)

Roland Barthes, “Death of the Author”

Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

Landi Raubenheimer, “Secret/Wish: The Problem of the Object in Relational Aesthetics”

Re-Visioning the Visual: Artist Statements and Multi-Modal Composition
Roland Barthes, "Death of the Author"
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?"
Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life," 1863

Paulo Freire, "The Act of Study"

Rosalind Krauss, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field"

Julia Kristeva, "Approaching Abjection," from The Powers of Horror

Brian O'Doherty, Inside the White Cube: Notes on the Gallery Space







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