AHST 3320-501
Course in Contemporary Art: Kinetics of Urban Sprawl

Spring 2008

Dr. Charissa N. Terranova
Monday, 7:00-9:45

terranova@utdallas.edu

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Class Presentations:

 

1. Introduction: "Sprawl," origins of a word

2. Sprawl: Urbanism in Defense

3. Interiors, Woman, and Pop!: Tom Wesselmann, Mel Ramos, and Andy Warhol

4. Prefabrication and Postwar Prosperity: Levittown and the Case-Study Houses

5. Prefabrication and Postwar Prosperity: The Eichler Homes, Charles and Ray Eames, and George Nelson

6. Strip Architecture and Lifestyle: Googie, Las Vegas, and Russel Wright

7. The Suburban Campus and Highway Aesthetic: The Architecture of Eero Saarinen

8. Conceptualism as Aesthesis: Robert Smithson and Dan Graham

9. Conceptualism as Aesthesis: Dennis Hopper, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, and John Baldessari

10. Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity by Alexander Alberro

11. Conceptualism as Aesthesis: Jeff Wall and Paul McCarthy

12. Conceptualism as Aesthesis: Ed Ruscha and Richard Prince

13. Art and the Automotive Ecology

 

Hand Outs:
 

1. Introduction: "Sprawl," origin of a word

2. Sprawl: Urbanism in Defense

3. Interiors, Woman, and Pop!: Tom Wesselmann, Mel Ramos, and Andy Warhol

4. Prefabrication and Postwar Prosperity: Levittown and the Case-Study Houses

5. Prefabrication and Postwar Prosperity:
   The Eichler Homes, Charles and Ray Eames, and George Nelson

6. Strip Architecture and Lifestyle: Googie, Las Vegas, and Russel Wright

7. The Suburban Campus and Highway Aesthetic: The Architecture of Eero Saarinen

8. Conceptualism as Aesthesis: Robert Smithson and Dan Graham

9. Conceptualism as Aesthesis: Dennis Hopper, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, and John Baldessari

10. Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity by Alexander Alberro (No handout)

11. Conceptualism as Aesthesis: Jeff Wall and Paul McCarthy

12. Conceptualism as Aesthesis: Ed Ruscha and Richard Prince

13. Art and the Automotive Ecology

 

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