Atkins, Robert.  ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present.  Second edition.  New York: Abbeville Press, 1997.

This course will be taught from the instructional website: www.theslideprojector.com.   Lecture presentations, assignments, and other course materials will be available to students at this site, and you will need to access it regularly.  Please let the instructor know if you do not have internet access.

The first two exams will be worth 45 points each and will consist of image i.d.s, multiple choice, fill-in-the blank, matching and short-answer essay questions.  The cumulative Final Exam will be worth 90 points, and will be taken with your community Jeopardy style.

Exams may NOT be made up.  If you have extenuating circumstances that prevent you from being able to take an exam, please discuss your options with the instructor BEFORE the exam takes place.

Each student will be assigned to a “Learning Community” based on their learning style and personality color.  Communities will work together to complete three writing assignments designed to develop art writing skills that are worth a maximum of 25 points for each participant. In addition, each community will be required to visit a museum or gallery showing relevant works made after 1945, and to write an adequate review of one artwork on view.  Specific exhibitions are recommended on this syllabus.  The Exhibition Review is worth a maximum of 50 points.

Group assignments function best when community members are accommodating with their time, interested in working together and open to feedback from their peers.  Students will be encouraged throughout the semester to rely on their communities and to be responsible constituents themselves.  The instructor will only consider allowing individual students to submit independednt assignments once a satisfactory attempt has been made at remedying any miscommunications within their group.

Students are required to write a Research Paper that adequately covers a topic relevant to this course.  The paper should reflect extensive research as well as a basic understanding and application of art historical methodologies.  The paper should follow MLA guidelines, and at least three separate, credible sources of information originating in print should be cited within the paper.  In preparation, students will be required to submit a Topic Report worth 5 points and a Source Report worth 10 points.  The paper itself is worth a maximum of 90 points.

We will often consider provocative and challenging subject matter in this class and must therefore agree to respect each other’s views and identities.  Our diverse backgrounds and opinions are assets and no student shall be made to feel inferior or uncomfortable because of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs or physical/ intellectual abilities.

Please DO NOT text message during class.  If you need to attend to an important message, please leave the classroom and return when you can fully commit your attention to the class discussion.

You may turn one assignment in one class day late.  The late assignment will not be marked down, however any assignments turned in more than one class late, or in addition to the one accepted assignment, will NOT receive credit.

The instructor’s mailbox is located on the third floor of the Center for the Arts building A (a.k.a. “the new art building” and CAA) in the Art Department Office, CAA 302.  If you cannot attend a class when an assignment is due, but can deliver the assignment to my mailbox NO LATER than 12 hours before the next class begins, I will not consider your assignment late.

Please DO NOT complete assignments in class.  Assignments should be turned in at the beginning of class.  Any work done during class will NOT be given credit.

Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated.  If the instructor finds evidence of cheating or plagiarism, the offending student will not receive credit on the assignment in question and further action may be considered.

Students should plan on spending three hours reading, fulfilling assignments and studying for class for every hour spent in the classroom.  That’s at least 153 hours of Art 1 study this semester! 

All course work (except the Final Exam) must be submitted by the last day of lecture. NO COURSE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 10 PM ON JULY 28.

Arnason: Chapter 15 & 16
Fineberg: Chapters 1 - 3

Tim Hawkinson

Blum & Poe Gallery

through June 28

Fresh

Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts

through June 27

Joseph Beuys: Multiples

LACMA

through July 6

Rachel Harrison

Regen Projects

through July 10

Collecting:  MOCA’s First 30

MOCA (Grand Ave & Geffen)

through July 12

Country Music & Endless Summer

Blum & Poe Gallery

July 3 - August 21

Arshile Gorky: Retrospective

MOCA (Grand Ave)

through September 20

Stephen G. Rhodes & Fountain

UCLA Hammer Museum

through September 26

Diana Al-Hadid

UCLA Hammer Museum

through August 15