Instructors: Miller & Yost

Blog for Spring 2009

Spring 2008
Text Paintings: text as graphics, graphics as text

• message/content
• legibility
• media
• layers
• palimpsestic: a manuscript or a piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. * figurative - something reused or altered but still bearing visable traces of its earlier form.
• bricolage: (in art or literature) construction or creation from a diverse range of available things.
• haptic: of or relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the sense of touch.

Assignment: Part 1 Select two "players" and/or two "narratives" from the following three articles and create a text painting diptych based on the content reflected in your reading. Part 2 Reflect on your learning experience and personal discovery by typing a one-page rationale paper. Part 3 Create a podcast based on your rationale paper.

Readings:
Danto, A. (1964, Oct.). The Artworld. The Journal of Philospohy, Vol. 61, No. 19, American Pholosophical Assosiation Eastern Division Sixty-First Annual Meeting. (pp. 571-584). Retrieved January, 2008 from http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-362X%2819641015%2961%3A19%3C571%3ATA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

Howells, R. (2003). Art History. In Visual Culture. (pp. 51 - 69). Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Schneider Adams. L . (1996). What is Art? In The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction. (pp. 1 - 15). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Student Work: click the image to listen to podcast