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Visual Culture (cocu108)
Professor: Brian Goldfarb | Winter 2005, UCSD
Course Schedule:
Note: Readings are due before the class on the date under which they are listed. This schedule is subject to change by the instructor. You will be notified as soon as possible of any changes. Quiz/Exam dates are tentative and may be rescheduled. This course website has the most up-to- date version of this course schedule and links to resources.
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Week 1: Defining Visual Culture (slides and notes)
Further Reading (not required):
Andrew Ross, "Poll Stars" http://www.diacenter.org/km/ross.htmlVisual Resources: Komar and Melamid, Most Wanted Paintings
Joseph Albers' Color theory Exercises: http://www.marilynfenn.com/color_study.html
Week 2: Reading Images (slides and notes)
Further Reading(not required):
An interesting interview about the Abu Ghraib exhibit: http://www.bombsite.com/strauss/strauss.html
Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics , Ch 2 http://www.newhatstories.com/svaclass/mccloudChap2/
Stuart Hall, "Representation, Meaning and Language" (Chapter 1, pages 15-64 and associated readings A-E, pages 65-4, in Representation)
Week 3: Power and Looking (slides, and more slides, and notes)
Further Reading (not required):
Linda Nochlin, "The Imaginary Orient"
Week 4: Collecting and Exhibiting (slides, and notes)
Visual Resources: Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Couple in a Cage (in Film and Video Reserves)
Week 5 Collecting and Exhibiting (continued) (slides, and notes) | The Multiplication of Images
Further Reading (not required):
- Skim: Coco Fusco, "The Other History of Intercultural Performance" (e-reserves)
- Carol Duncan, "Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship"
- Benedict Anderson "Census, Map, Museum" in Imagined Communities
- Tony Bennet, "The Exhibitionary Complex"
Week 6 Midterm exam | Reproduction/Circulation of Images (slides and notes)
Further Reading:
- Vilis R. Inde, "Jeff Koons: Piracy or Fair Use?"
- John Tagg "A Legal Reality: The Photograph as Property in Law"
Week 7 Circulation and Ownership of Images | Style and Subcultures (slides and notes)
Postponed: Gunilla Lindqvist, "The Aesthetics of Play. A didactic Study of Play and Culture in Preschools"
Further Reading (not required):
- Constance Penley, "Feminism, and the Study of Popular Culture"
Week 8 Image and Identity (slides, notes)| Global Visual Culture (slides, notes)|
Further Reading:
Nestor Garcia Canclini, "Remaking Passports"
Visual Resources: Adrian Piper, "Funk Lessons"
Further Reading (not required):
Hamid Naficy "The Making of Exile Cultures"
Week 9 Global Visual Culture (slides)| Gender, Sexuality and Visuality (slides, notes)
Further Reading (not required):
- Eve Sedgwick "Axiomatic"
- Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, "Sex in Public"
- Judith Butler, "Prohibition, Psychoanalysis and the Heterosexual Matrix"
- Sean Nixon, "Exhibiting Masculinity" (Chapter 5, pages 291-329 and associated readings A-B, pages 331-336, in Representation )
Week 10 Scientific Looking (slides, notes)| From Electronic to Digital Visual Culture
Further Reading (not required):
Final Exam: Friday, March 18th, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. (final review notes)