December 5: Present a 10-minute illustrated PowerPoint about your artwork ___________________________________________________________ Schedule (subject to changes announced in NOTE: All readings below are available on the Art 116 “Readings” webpage. Follow the directions for *RResponse papers on p. 2 of the syllabus. August 29: Introduction / Review of the Sac State Art Collection Catalog / Instruction in Endnote/ View 1990 award-winning film by Mark Kitchell, Berkeley in the Sixties, for historical context of the art we are studying this semester. *RR: Susan Landauer, “Countering Cultures: The California Context (An Overview),” from Peter Selz, Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond, 2006 (this and all readings are available on the Art 116 “Readings” webpage) Jonathan Fineberg, “Identity and Embodiment, 1961-69,” from Fineberg, A Troublesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson, 2013 September 5: Overview lecture *Deborah Metzger, CSUS Science and Technology Librarian, will give us a demonstration of how to use Endnote. NOTE: You can download the app (free from the University) on your laptop before class if you want to follow along. View: “Revolutions of the Wheel, part 5: Robert Arneson and the Davis Group” *RR: Robert Hughes, “The Poet of Pastry: Wayne Thiebaud” 2001 Joann Moser, “What’s It All Mean?” from What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect, 2010 September 12: Due: Three catalog essay subject choices *RR: Elaine O’Brien, “Bad Ideas: The Enigma of Stephen Kaltenbach,” Midtown Magazine, 2009 Constance Lewallen, “A Rose Has No Teeth,” from Lewallen et al., A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, 2007 September 19: Steve Kaltenbach Due: Proposal for catalog entry due
*RR: Robert Morris, “Anti Form” (1968) Marcia Tucker and James Monte, Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials (Whitney MA catalog, 1969), available at this website: (NOTE: if the syllabus link fails, search online using the authors’ names and exhibition title to get the document on your own from The Internet Archive.) September 26: Ellen Van Fleet Watch “Judy Chicago & the California Girls” DVD 000764 *RR: Gail Levin, “Becoming Judy Chicago,” abridged essay from Jill Fields, Entering the Picture Judy Chicago, the Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists, 2012 October 3: Vicki Hall *No RResponse assignment October 10: Class meets at the Crocker Art Museum 3:30-5:30 pm for a focused tour. Bring your Sac State OneCard for ID and $8 student admission *RR: George Lipsitz, “Not Just another Social Movement: Poster Art and the Movimiento Chicano,” from Just Another Poster? 2001 Ella Diaz, “Introduction: Mapping the Chicano/a Art History of the Royal Chicano Air Force,” from Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force, 2017 October 12: Julia Couzens lecture: University Library Gallery, 3-5 pm. Extra credit for attendance. October 17: Xico Gonzalez on the Chicano/a art movement, Sacramento State and UC Davis View: “Pilots of Aztlan flights of the Royal Chicano Air Force,” Steve LaRosa *RR: “DQU: Their Own Place in the Sun,” Peter Janssen, 1973 (4 pages) Peter Selz, “The Native American Experience,” from chapter “Racism, Discrimination and Politics of Identity” in Art of Engagement 2006 “Pacific Western Traders,” by Peter Nabokov (6 pages) Lowery Stokes Sims, “Scholder’s Figuration: Art and Culture in American Art”(2008) Watch (no RR) Interview of Frank LaPena by Carlos Villa: . Use the interview and the RR readings above to prepare two substantive questions for Frank La Pena on October 24. Write the questions down and attach them to your response paper. Note: Carlos Villa was an Associate Professor in the Sac State Art department from 1969-79. October 24: Frank La Pena *RR: