Course Objectives: This course, which is taught as a seminar, will explore the visual arts in a wide range of cultural and historical contexts. Topics will include the changing institutional role of art with respect to the shifting parameters of ideology, history and revolution from the 1960s to the present. This course will also explore visual arts and culture, including the evolving social and practical parameters of technologically produced images and the shifting arenas of ideology, analysis, and criticism. Furthermore, this course is devoted to the important theories about photography as a medium. The theories posited by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag and Mark Sealy are profoundly impactful and contribute to a far greater understanding about the medium.
Requirements:
1. Group Reading Journal
2. One 10-12 page formal research paper
3. Individual Paper Presentations
4. Attendance and participation
5. Museum field trips to the Getty Center and LACMA (4 page papers for each)
Grading will be based on:
- 50% for the formal research paper
- 50% for presentation, weekly reading summaries, attendance and participation, 2 museum field trips and 3-4 page written responses
*Class Attendance is a requirement of Art 130, and the museum field trips are in lieu of a few on-campus meetings. Therefore, these carefully selected museum field trips are a required part of this course. There are relevant exhibitions at both museums that will offer you resources, and potentially artists who you may want to consider for your formal research paper.
*Please fill out the Museum Field Trip Liability Waivers before the first day of class. Waivers are HERE, and all three need to be signed and dated within the same DocuSign Document.
If you do not go to the museum that week, or do the writing assignment, then you will receive two absences that week. Take a selfie at the museum, and include it in your paper as proof of attendance.
Letter Grade Percentage:
A 94%-100%
A- 90%-93%
B+ 87%-89%
B 83%-86%
B- 80%-82%
C+ 77%-79%
C 73%-76%
C- 70%-72%
D+ 67%-69%
D 63%-66%
D- 60%-62%
F 0%-59%
Grading Policy:
Late Papers: If you have a legitimate emergency before the paper is due, then discuss it with the professor– otherwise papers are expected on their due date.
Important Dates:
Tuesday, June 24: Course Introduction.
Every Friday by 10:00PM PT: Group Reading Journals.
Thursday, July 4: Holiday
Saturday, July 6: LACMA field trip (no on campus meetings this week).
Monday, July 8: LACMA response paper due by 10:00PM PT.
Thursday, July 25: Rough paper topic due by 6:00PM PT.
Saturday, July 20: Getty Center field trip (no campus meetings this week).
Monday, July 22: Getty Center response paper due by 10:00PM PT.
Tuesday, July 30: Paper Presentations.
Thursday, August 1: Paper Presentations.
Saturday, August 3: Research paper due by 11:30PM PT.
Required Books:
Walter Benjamin, On Photography
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Susan Sontag, On Photography
Mark Sealy, Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time
Academic Integrity: Students in this class are expected to complete ALL of the assignments and requirements with academic integrity. Plagiarism and cheating violate university regulations and are reportable offenses that may result in Academic Suspension or Dismissal from UCSB, but will definitely result in dismissal or failure in this course.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is defined by the University as an academic offense in which a student uses another person’s work and submits it with the intent that it should be taken as his or her own work. Plagiarism would consist of any of the following:
1) Quoting any part of a printed or electronic source without enclosing the quotation in quotation marks and providing the reference for the source.
2) Paraphrasing any part of a printed or electronic source without acknowledging the source.
3) Presenting the point of view stated in a printed or electronic source without acknowledging your reliance on the source.
4) Copying phrases and sentences from a printed or electronic source that is paraphrased without enclosing the cited text directly in quotation marks.
5) Copying work submitted by another student.
6) Submitting work written by someone else as if it is your own. Unintentional plagiarism can occur when writing up an essay from notes or even memory, by reproducing sentences, phrases, or a general line of discussion or point of view from the sources you have studied as if they are your own work, though these passages are in fact borrowed from other sources. To avoid suspicion of plagiarism under these circumstances, it is advisable to take care when taking notes to enclose any text copied verbatim from a source in quotations marks (making a note of the page number).
**Papers submitted for other classes MAY NOT be submitted for Art 130. This form of academic misconduct, as well as plagiarism, is a very serious transgression that will result in failing the course and appearing before the Dean and the Judicial Affairs Hearing Committee (which most often results in expulsion). You can review the UCSB campus-wide policy on academic integrity at the following website: https://studentconduct.sa.ucsb.edu
Classroom Policies: In addition to meeting UCSB’s Academic Integrity standards, I expect students to treat everyone in the classroom- the instructor, guests, and fellow students- with common courtesy and respect. At times we will probably be discussing issues, and viewing materials, that generate extreme, even passionate, responses. We will also be discussing readings that you may find particularly difficult, confusing, frustrating, or otherwise challenging. It is important to keep an open mind, and to persevere through the readings that you deem particularly complicated.
If you have any difficulties or issues, please communicate them to me as soon as possible so that your grades won’t be adversely affected.
Department of Art Diversity Statement:
The Department of Art acknowledges the Chumash as the original inhabitants and custodians of the land on which our department was founded. We pay our respect to the Chumash community both past and present and to all of our relations.
As a community for higher learning, we understand that knowledge and culture are collectively produced by all races, ethnicities, classes, genders, sexual orientations, and disabilities. We embrace our different backgrounds to create a respectful space where one may critique and challenge social, cultural, and physical borders to create meaningful artistic expression. Disagreement is supported, even as we are mindful that certain identities are more privileged while others are often undermined and marginalized. We are committed to rethinking, reframing, and reconstructing art education as a groundwork for building inclusive, energized, creative communities.
Department of Art Statement in Support of BLM:
The tragic killings of Black men and women in the US and across the world continue unabated despite the graphic evidence provided by the widespread circulation of citizen cell phone camera footage. The Art Department is publicly releasing this statement in solidarity with the Black community. We do not condone the innumerable targeted acts of violence perpetrated disproportionately on Black people and other minorities by those entrusted with enforcing the law or by any other parties. These killings have gone on long enough without foundational change. Art continues to have a significant role to play in fighting injustice and pushing for positive change. The Department of Art at UCSB offers our unanimous support for the Black Lives Matter movement. We are not in a position to speak for the Black community, but refer readers to the statement released by the Department of Black Studies.
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