Welcome to Art 130 Summer Session A 2021

 Hello everyone,

I hope that this finds each of you safe and healthy during these trying times. I wanted to talk a bit more about Art 130, and how we will be approaching this class. As many of you already know, I teach Art 130 as a seminar rather than as a lecture.

This class is intended to prepare you for advanced studies and graduate school. You will each be in a group of 4-5 people, and your group will present the weekly readings to the entire class each week. This method, which is the foundation of the graduate seminar, engages everyone in interesting discussions about the reading materials and the works of art discussed. It is an intellectually stimulating and gratifying way to learn the material and to grow academically. It is even more gratifying when you work closely with your peers in a group because you learn so much by sharing your interpretations and perceptions with one another. This class is 100% synchronous and will not be recorded, therefore your attendance is crucial. Please complete the Art 130 Questionnaire at your earliest convenience and email it to me: taschian@arts.ucsb.edu

Required Books:

 All of the books will be available from the Campus Bookstore, Amazon and the publishers.

Art 130 Books Summer Session A (2021):

1) Author: Bell Hooks
Title: Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
ISBN-10 : 1565842634
ISBN-13 : 978-1565842632
Publisher: The New Press
Date: July 1, 1995
Publisher Link: https://thenewpress.com/books/art-on-my-mind
Cost: $14.49 Amazon
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Art-My-Mind-Visual-Politics/dp/1565842634/ref=pd_sbs_4?pd_rd_w=FIcPn&pf_rd_p=527ea27c-adf6-4b67-9c5f-265eb29e0622&pf_rd_r=ATB0Z3S46EV7CV2JG55V&pd_rd_r=e988a481-8825-4a56-a2b8-39ee398d7f20&pd_rd_wg=ENuCe&pd_rd_i=1565842634&psc=1
Status: Required

2) Author: Bell Hooks
Title: Black Looks: Race and Representation
ISBN-10 : 1138821551
ISBN-13 : 978-1138821552
Publisher: Routledge (2nd Edition)
Date:October 29, 2014
Publisher Link: https://www.routledge.com/Black-Looks-Race-and-Representation/hooks/p/book/9781138821552
Cost: $32.95 Amazon
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Looks-Representation-bell-hooks/dp/1138821551/ref=pd_sbs_6?pd_rd_w=IJP3u&pf_rd_p=527ea27c-adf6-4b67-9c5f-265eb29e0622&pf_rd_r=8XKGSVH55TTVKJTAHR2N&pd_rd_r=0cf467f6-8f36-4925-aa82-2dbeb2e2f741&pd_rd_wg=cjlv6&pd_rd_i=1138821551&psc=1
Status: Required

3) Author: Okwui Enwezor, Ed.
Title: Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America (from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter)
ISBN-10 : 1838661298
ISBN-13 : 978-1838661298
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Date: December 16, 2020
Publisher Link: https://www.phaidon.com/store/art/grief-and-grievance-art-and-mourning-in-america-9781838661298/
Cost: $58.66 Amazon
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Grief-Grievance-Mourning-America-Rights/dp/1838661298/ref=pd_sbs_4?pd_rd_w=RAunA&pf_rd_p=527ea27c-adf6-4b67-9c5f-265eb29e0622&pf_rd_r=TS0NFVNGQA6TX4BJCR2H&pd_rd_r=46363e8c-8c0d-4fb3-9fef-d7b49eac3245&pd_rd_wg=dBRuZ&pd_rd_i=1838661298&psc=1
Status: Required

4) Author: Richard Powell
Title: Going There: Black Visual Satire (Richard D. Cohen Lectures on African & African American Art) 
ISBN-10 : 0300245742
ISBN-13 : 978-0300245745
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date: November 3, 2020
Publisher Link: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300245745/going-there
Cost: $38.16 Amazon
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/Going-There-Richard-Lectures-American/dp/0300245742
Status: Required

ART 130 RESOURCES:

1) Art 130 Syllabus: can be found HERE.

2) Weekly Reading Assignments: can be found HERE.

3) Art 130 Questionnaire: can be found HERE. Please fill this out and return it to me very quickly. There are numerous questions that relate to your access to technology during this time.

4) Research Paper Prompt: can be found HERE. You will be selecting an artist about whom you will write a formal research paper (their work must be relevant to the topic of  this seminar). You need to have selected your rough topic by Saturday, July 17 by 6:00PM PT (week 4). Your artist should be well enough known to have been the subject of scholarly research. You may use any of the assigned books for this class, but you will also want to utilize scholarly journal articles from the Davidson Library Website (HERE). You will note that I have linked to the Art 1A page of the Davidson Library website because it is very easy to navigate, and it is very helpful. Before you select your photographer, be sure to look through your four books for inspiration, and once you have narrowed down the field I will speak with each of you individually about your proposed subject of research.

5) If you need help finding research materials, then please reach out to our Art and Architecture Librarian, Chizu Morihara.

cmorihara@ucsb.edu

6) Office Hours: By appointment and directly following class.

7) Reading Journals: During normal in-person instruction of Art 130, the reading journals are due on the last day of class. However, this quarter I want you to turn in your weekly reading summaries each Friday by 6:00PM PT.

Your reading journals are largely intended to help you learn the material, and to identify scholarly sources that can be used in your research paper. However, they also allow me to see how you are framing and interpreting the materials the we are covering.

You should be summarizing the most important points that are made by the authors, and those that you find particularly interesting. You need to write in full sentences, rather than listing abbreviated ideas in the form of bullet points.