Confronting the Audience

Posted on December 6, 2019

06 December 2019 - 10 h 00 min - 12 h 00 min


Required Reading: Darby English, “Introduction,” in How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, pp. 1-26.

*Presentation 1: Kobena Mercer, “Review: Looking for Trouble,” Transition 51 (1991): 184-197—PDF provided by the instructor

*Presentation 2: Huey Copeland, “‘Bye, Bye Black Girl’: Lorna Simpson’s Figurative Retreat,” Art Journal 64: 2 (Summer 2005): 62-77—PDF available on Jstor

 *Presentation 3: Nicole R. Fleetwood, “‘One Shot’: Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris and the Photographic Practice of Non-Iconicity,” in Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011, pp. 33-70.

>> The Self Imagined: Portraiture, Identity, and Difference in American Art

Instructor: Tatsiana Zhurauliova

Location
Terra Foundation for American Art Center,
Conference Room
121 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris