LIN Chi-Ming
(PhD. École pratique des hautes études, French)
Professor, Art and Design Department.
Research area: Art Theory, Aesthetics, French Contemporary Thoughts, Theory of Image
(PhD. École pratique des hautes études, French)
Professor, Art and Design Department.
Research area: Art Theory, Aesthetics, French Contemporary Thoughts, Theory of Image
Course Objectives:
1. To have good knowledge of topics of the theory and the criticism of the contemporary art
2. To develop student’s capacity of thinking, interrogation and research in this field
Course outline:
1. *The rising of the contemporary art Minimal art texts by Mel Bochner, Michael Fried, Robert Morris and Barbara Rose
*Land art
Discussion by Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson; texts by Robert Morris, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson
*Conceptual art
page:2/3 Texts by Lucy Lippard and John Chandler (Terry Atkinson), Joseph Kosuth, Victor Burgin, Jeff Wall and Benjamin Buchloh
2. Lecture series by the visiting lectors
3. postmodernism postmodern thought postmodern architecture postmodern art
4. visiting exhibitions and reading of a selection of relative critical essays
Implementation method:
Text study and essay writing Exhibition visiting and discussion
Grading Policy:
Assistance (20%) Oral presentations (40%) Final essay (40%)
References:
Michael Archer, Art since 1960, London: Thames and Hudson, 1977.
James Meyer (ed.), Minimalism, London: Phaidon, 2000.
Gregory Battcock (ed.), Minimal Art, a Critical Anthology, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1968, 1995.
Gilles A. Tiberghien, Land Art, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1995. Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson (ed.), Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology,Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999.
Malcolm Andrews, Landscape and Western Art, Oxford, Oxford University of Press, 1999.
Rose Lee Goldberg, Performance Art, From Futurism to the Present, London, Thames and Hudson, 1988.
Allan Kaprow, The Blurring of Art and Life, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993.
Brian Wallis (ed.), Art after modernism: rethinking representation, New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art; Boston: D.R. Godine, 1984.