Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Textbook:
Article:
o Messer, Thomas. “What Should a Museum Be?” Art in America 49, no. 2
(1961).
Transforming and Politicizing the American Museum
Textbook:
2 6/18 First Amendment Issues. Freedom of Expression. Indecency and Obscenity 1) Discussion Forum
Limitations. Censorship and Prior Restraint Part 1B—initial posts (Tuesday June 19)
Article:
3 6/25 Nationalism and Ideology Affecting: Art Dissent and Desecration 1) Discussion Forum
Textbook: Part 2A—initial posts (Tuesday June 26)
Dubin, Steven C. Arresting Images. Impolitic Art and Uncivil Part 2A—response posts (Thursday June 28)
Actions (Routledge, 1992).
Chapter Five: “Rally ‘Round the Flag,” pp. 102 – 2) Article Response #2
124.
Due (Friday June 29)
Articles:
Baldwin, Carl R. “Art & the Law: The Flag in Court Again,” Art in America,
62 (June 1974), pp. 50-54.
Vanesian, Kathleen. “Deja Wow: Red, White and Snooze,” Phoenix New
Times, April 4, 1996.
Kiefer, Michael. “Tempest in a Toilet Bowl,” Phoenix New Times, June 6,
1996.
Duncan, Michael. “Kienholz’s Finale,” Art in America, 83 (June 1995), pp. 96
- 99.
Bolton, Richard (ed.) Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent
Controversies in the Arts (New Press, New York, 1992), pp. 114 – 117.
Social Construction of Acceptability. Representation of Sexual Minorities
Textbook:
Dubin, Steven C. Arresting Images. Impolitic Art and Uncivil
Actions (Routledge, 1992). Chapter 7: “Gay Images and the Social
Construction of Acceptability,” pp. 159 – 196.
Kammen, Michael. Visual Shock. A History of Art Controversies in American
Culture (Vintage Books, 2006). Chapter 2: “Nudity, Decency, Morality,” pp.
47 – 87.
Articles:
Johnson, Ken. “Forbidden Sights,” Art in America, 79 (Jan. 1991), pp. 107 -
109.
Government and the Arts
Textbook:
4 7/2 1) Discussion Forum
Dubin, Steven C. Arresting Images. Impolitic Art and Uncivil
Part 2B—initial posts (Tuesday July 3)
Actions (Routledge, 1992). Chapter 11: “The Government As Patron: Angel
Part 2B—response posts (Thursday July 5)
or Demon?” pp. 278 – 293.
2)Film Response
Bolton, Richard (ed.) Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent
Controversies in the Arts (New Press, New York, 1992), pp. 90 – 91, 194 – Due (Friday July 6)
Controversy and the Question of Taxpayers' Money Proposal Due (Sunday July 8)
Textbook:
Rothfield, Lawrence (ed.) Unsettling Sensation. Arts-Policy Lessons from the
Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy (Rutgers University Press, 2001).
Part II:
Schuster, J. Mark. “Who Should Pay (for the Arts and Culture)? Who Should
Decide? And What Difference Should it Make?” pp. 72 – 91.
Heins, Marjorie. Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America’s Censorship
Wars (The New Press, NY, 1993). Chapter 6: “The Taxpayers Money: the
Question of Government Funding,” pp. 117 – 136.
Articles:
Danto, Arthur. “Art and Taxpayers,” The Nation, August 21/28, 1989, p. 192.
(Available also in Richard Bolton (ed.). Culture Wars. Documents from the
Recent Controversies in the Arts (New Press, New York, 1992), pp. 96. – 98.
Unit 3— Representing History
and Interpreting Theories
(Histories, Ideologies,
Interpretations, Revisions)
7 7/23 Controversies Involving Religion (USA and Australia) Textbook: 1) Discussion Forum
Dubin, Steven C. Arresting Images. Impolitic Art and Uncivil Part 4A—initial posts (Tuesday July 24)
Textbook: