The junior seminar addresses the interplay between artmaking practices and art theory and criticism. This year the course will focus on three spaces of encounter for modern and contemporary art: the museum, the street, and the living room. Students will engage critical materials and art historical examples related to these spaces, raising questions about public and private spaces, art and everyday life, and twentieth-century shifts in practices of display and looking. The course will also address how these sites have in turn served as actual source material for artists' productions. For example, how has the space of the museum inspired work by Mark Dion, Joseph Cornell, Ann Hamilton, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Andrea Fraser, or Fred Wilson? How does the street figure as a space of appearance and/or as a topic of inquiry in the work of Eduard Manet, Asco, Allan Kaprow, Adrian Piper, or Doug Aitken? How does the living room become the subject of work by Andrea Zittel, Louise Lawler, Pippilotti Rist, or Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, as well as the site of broadcast radio, tv, and internet fine arts projects? Critical works may include writings that address these spaces by Lippard, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Holston, Delaney, Chavoya, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Debord, Spiegel, Lefevbre, Corbusier, Marguiles, and others. A substantial amount of critical reading and viewing will be required, as well as regular journal entries, and three studio production assignments which correspond to each topic. The course is limited to art majors and is required of junior studio art majors.

Hour:L. JOHNSON