Contemporary Art
Art by POC/BIPOC
Experimental Forms of Art
Objecthood
Meaning and Materials
Sculpture in the Expanded Field
Expanded Cinema
Performance
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Len Lye
Paul Sharits
Hito Steyerl
Peter Tscherkassky
Ulysses Jenkins
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Kara Walker
Chris Ofili
Kevin Jerome Everson
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Mary Miss
Between the Still and Moving Image by Chrissie Iles; Examines how various people experimented with the relationship between film and other elements such as time, space, perspective, environment, and so on, giving specific examples from various points of film/art history
Carolee Schneeman
Chris Burden
Tehching Hsieh
Cassils
Marina Abramovic
Robert Smithson
Nancy Holt
Donald Judd
Tony Smith
A Short History of Minimalism by Kyle Chayka; Covers the early history of minimalism and how it came to be, looks at the concepts of minimalism and uses Donald Judd an example of a minimalist artist
Form and Material by Vilém Flusser; Examines the philosophic theories and ideas surrounsing the "material world" and the conept of materials as a whole, examines how such concepts influenced and were approached throughout different parts of art history
Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness by Bell Hooks; Examines how one can use marginalized spaces to fight back against oppression and reclaim one's identity
Framing (Performance) by "Taylor"; Explores how performance can be executed and used in various ways (ie social commentary), talks about how to identify a performance via framing, explores the nature of performance (ie inability to truly be documented)
Sculpture in the Expanded Field by Rosalind Krauss; Looks at the way the term "sculpture" is being explored and expanded, covers different types of sculpture, tries to figure out what makes sculpture sculpture
Charles White
Betye Saar
Melvin Edawrds
Black West, Thoughts on Art in Los Angeles by Kellie Jones; Discusses and looks at the history of the Black Arts Movement within Los Angeles
Art and Objecthood by Michael Fried; Fried argues that minimalist art is not actually art, but an embodiment of objecthood, and that it relies entirely on its situation and audience to have any meaning
Dan Flavin