History of Art notes on multiple short readings
Read a number of short articles/ essays ( provided) and write about half a page on each.
When writing the notes, start with an overall understanding of the essay and take one or two quotes that may have caught your attention. It could be that you dont fully understand them, argue with them or agree. Expand on them.
Baxandall, The Period Eye, from Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form (Sections I-IV, pp. 27-72)
Sayre: Ch. 3 Using visual information from,Writing About Art
Sontag: Against interpretationBarthes: The Rhetoric of the Image Baudelaire: The modern public and photography
Sontag: In Platos cave from On PhotographyCh. 7 from Regarding the pain of others
Siegfried Kracauer Photography, from Theory of Film
Levi Strauss, David Photography and Propaganda and The Documentary Debate
Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Mens Attitudes (pp. 6-87)
Baudelaire: The Painter of Modern Life (Sections I-IV)
Gablik, CH. 2 from Has Modernism failed?
The Futurist Manifesto
Greenberg, Avant-Garde and Kitsch
Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility
McLuhan, The Medium is the Message
Jameson, Post Modernism and Consumer Society Debord, Society of the Spectacle (1- 34, 180-192)
Rancire, The Emancipation of the Spectator Baudrillard
The Implosion of Meaning in the Media Absolute Advertising, Ground-Zero Advertising