Syllabus
I. Public Art/Artists in Public
Week One
Wed 8/30
Policies and Introductions: What is public art? What is rhetoric?
READ: Finkelpearl, "Introduction: The City as Site" (xerox)
Browse website: policy statement, syllabus, links
DO: Post to Townsquare: If for any reason you have difficulty posting to Townsquare, email your response to me.
Week Two
Mon 9/4
Labor Day Holiday—No Class.
Wed 9/6
Discuss Finkelpearl and public space. Discuss Townsquare posts and use of Townsquare.
READ: "Reading and Writing Arguments" (xerox) and Beyond Words, chapter 1 (skip the exercises but don't skip the pictures!)
DO: Post to Townsquare.
Week Three
Mon 9/11
Introduction to Rhetoric and Visual Rhetoric.
READ: New York Times articles, "Design Selected for a Memorial at Ground Zero" and "The 9/11 Memorial: How Pluribus Became Unum" and Haviland, "Henry James @ Ground Zero"
DO: Post to Townsquare.
Wed 9/13
Discuss Monuments and Memorials.
READ: Gopnik, "Art in the City" and Heartney, "The City as Laboratory: Two Decades of New York's Percent for Art Program"
DO: Post to Townsquare (14 entries/major edits required).
Week Four
Mon 9/18
Discuss publically-funded art campaigns.
DO: Mini Rhetorical Analysis due Wednesday.
Wed 9/20
Mini Rhetorical Analysis Due. Watch "Christo."
READ: Chronicle article, "To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December" and "Mission and History" from Chinati Foundation website.
DO: Post to Townsquare (14 entries/major edits required).
Week Five
Mon 9/25
Marfa (Guest: Caitlin Murray, UT intern at the Chinati Foundation.)
READ: Kruger articles: "A Woman of Art and Letters," "Advertisements for Myself," and "Billboard, Disrupted"
DO: Post to Townsquare (14 entries/major edits required).
Wed 9/27
Barbara Kruger: art and advertising.
DO: Peer Review draft due Monday--bring hard copy.
Week Six
Mon 10/2
Peer Review: Complete draft due at start of class in hard copy.
Revision Workshop: Claims, Evidence, Analysis.
DO: Paper One due Wednesday.
Wed 10/4
Paper One: Rhetorical Analysis DUE. Bring a hard copy. Field Trip: Blanton Museum of Art. Meet in the Blanton Lobby.
DO: Post a TownSquare page about the artwork you wrote about for Paper 1. If you or someone else has already created a page, edit the page so that we end up with one good, nonrepetitive, useful page about the artwork. Post your entire paper on the page. You might consider adding headings to sections or paragraphs to break the paper down for easy web-reading (in the way that Wikipedia usually breaks the topic down into short sections). Your finished page DOES NOT have to be formatted the same way we have formatted other entries (Text, Explanation/Definition, Suggestions for Further Reading); you may use different headings or no heading at all. Do what seems most useful to the reader, since your papers will now be available for use to students, researchers, and the general public.
II. Challenging Art, and Challenging Art
Week Seven
Mon 10/9
DO: Post to Townsquare (toward total of 14 entries required for the semester)
Wed 10/11
Works Progress Administration and the National Endowment for the Arts. Return Paper #1. Assignment for Paper #2.
READ: Identify topic for Paper #2. Begin research.
DO: Post to Townsquare.
Week Eight
Mon 10/16
Introduction to Research Methods. Bring your topic for paper #2.
DO: Read Beyond Words, p. 48-63 and p. 246-263. These chapters are about composing texts, so read for techniques you can apply directly to your writing. Work on research for Paper 2.
Wed 18
Campus Art. UT statuary walk. Discuss argument around UT's campus art.
DO: Peer Review Draft due Monday.
Week Nine
Mon 10/23
Peer Review. Bring a complete draft of Paper #2 in hard copy.
DO: Paper Two, First submission due Wednesday.
Wed 10/25
Paper Two: Art Controversy Paper DUE (First Draft). Intro to community-based performance: place + identity.
READ: Beyond Words, chapter 4 excerpts: pp. 160-197, 216-218.
Week Ten
Mon 10/30
Discuss place and identity: the suburbs and suburban community performance.
READ: Jan Cohen-Cruz, "Introduction to Community-Based Theater."
Wed 11/1
Introduction to Community-Based Performance and Revision Workshop: Introductions
III. Communities in Performance
Week Eleven
Mon 11/6
Paper Two, Final Draft DUE. First Night and street performance. "Bread"
Wed 11/8
Week Twelve
Mon 11/13
Wed 11/15
Grassroots performance: demonstrations. Start organizing Wiki.
Week Thirteen
Mon 11/20
Final Project, Proposal due today OR turn in at my office, PAR 406, by 5 pm Wednesday. Work on Wiki.
Wed 11/22
Thanksgiving Holidays—No Class.
Week Fourteen
Mon 11/27
Wed 11/29
Week Fifteen
Mon 12/4
Wed 12/6
Presentations. Final projects due. Evaluations.
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