Please check Syllabus to other updates. For the first assignment you are to offer a close reading of a particular work of art. How fully does the work fit the artist's stated goals or does it differ in interesting ways. Second assignment is more playful . I would like you to describe or actually produce an imagined piece of minimalist art and write an interpretive essay on your own creation.
Third assignment can be another close reading of a work .
Or you can work more conceptually by responding to some essay in MA or to the retrospect class on Oct 9 in order to stress something you think is your own strong case on some aspect of minimalism, especially about its claims or lack of claim on a contemporary audience. Be sure to tie your case closely to examples. The Wollheim essay in MA may prove helpful in thinking about this project. Battcock, G. Minimal Art . Autobiography of Red .