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

Artists

Readings

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