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Nationalism, Internationalism, and Globalism in Modern Art
Spring 2016
Topics
- Introduction (syllabus review, discussion of handouts / presentations)
- Nation, Word, Nomad (units, maps, movable agents – history )
- Paris (world pictures, materials, infrastructures – philosophy )
- Venice (empire into nation, cosmopolite – political philosophy )
- London (arts, manufactures, empire – anthropology )
- Weimar / Moscow (International Cold War – architecturology )
- São Paulo / Brasilia / Africa (from Cold War to postcolonial nationalisms – anthropophagology )
- Osaka / Asia (orientalism and globalization – literary theory )
- Documenta / Manifesta (cosmopolitanism, take 2 – transnationalism )
- Joahnnesburg / UAE (cities, branding, globalization theory – sociology )
- Seminar research / presentation workshops
- Seminar research / presentation workshops (cont.)
Readings
- Anderson, Benedict. “Census, Map, Museum.” Chapter 10 in Imagined Communities . Verso Books, 1991, pp. 163–85. ISBN: 9780860913290.
- Osserman, Robert. “Encompassing the Earth.” In Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded, Essays on Space and Science . Edited by Peter Weibel. MIT Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780262731485.
- Heidegger, Martin. “The Age of the World Picture [1938].” In The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays . Translated by William Lovitt. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2013, pp. 115–54. ISBN: 9780062290700.
- Koundoura, Maria. “Producing the Nation’s Narrative.” In The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities . I. B. Tauris, 2012, pp. 79–105 and 167–77. ISBN: 9781848859722.
- Greenhalgh, Paul. Read “Introduction.” In Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World’s Fairs, 1851–1939(Studies in Imperialism) . Manchester University Press, 1991, pp. 82–111. ISBN: 9780719023002.
- Braudel, Fernand. “Divisions of Space and Time in Europe.” In The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century. Vol. 3. Harper & Row, 1984, pp. 21–70. ISBN: 9780060153175.
- Perec, Georges. “Excerpt from Penser / Classer, Hachette, 1985.” In Species of Spaces and Other Pieces . Edited and translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics 2008, pp. 184–201. ISBN: 9780141442242.
- Jones, Caroline A. “Guerre and Guernica – Paroxysms of Nationalism.” UNESCO 2008.
- Jones, Caroline A. “Doubt Fear.” Art Papers 29, no. 1 (2005): 24–35.
- Augustine. “De Civitate Dei Libri (426 C. E.).” Chapters IV, IV, VII, X, and XIII in Augustine City of God . Translated and edited by Henry Bettenson and David Knowles. Penguin Books, 1972, pp. 11, 31, 6, 2, and 17. ISBN: 9780140400229.
- Al-Farabi, Abu Nasr. “Introduction” and “Views of the Cities which are Ignorant of the True Good.” Chapter 18 in On the Perfect State . Translated by Richard Walzer. Kazi Publications Incorporation, 1998, pp. 287–315 and 1–35. ISBN: 9781871031768. (plus (if desired), translator’s introduction)
- Redford, Bruce. Venice and the Grand Tour . Yale University Press, 1996, pp. 5–25. ISBN: 9780300069112.
- Muntadas, Antoni. “Conversation between Antoni Muntadas and Mark Wigley, New York.” In Muntadas On Translation: I Giardini . Actar, 1899, pp. 269–320. ISBN: 9788472329522. (Spanish Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale)
- Jones, Caroline. “Biennial Culture: A Longer History.” In The Biennial Reader . Edited by Marieke van Hal, Solveig Ovstebo, and Elena Filipovic. Hatje Cantz, 2010, pp. 66–87. ISBN: 9783775726108.
- Art Journal , special issue, The illustrated catalogue of the Great Exhibition of London, 1851.
- Gloag, John. “Introduction,” “Ralph Nicholson Wornum,” and “The Exhibition as a Lesson in Taste.” In The Crystal Palace Exhibition Illustrated Catalogue . Dover, 1970. ISBN: 9780486225036.
- Auerbach, Jeffrey. The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display . Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 159–87. ISBN: 9780300080070.
- Mignolo, Walter D. “The Modern / Colonial World System.” In Local Histories / Global Designs . Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 1–45. ISBN: 9780691001401.
- Anderson, Benedict. “Official Nationalism and Imperialism.” In Imagined Communities. Verso Books, 1991, pp. 83–111. ISBN: 9780860913290.
- Benedict, Burton. The Anthropology of World’s Fairs: San Francisco’s Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915 . Scolar Press, 1983, pp. 27–60. ISBN: 9780859676779.
- Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. “Preface” and “Introduction.” In Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection . Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. ix–xiv and 1–18.
- Papastergiadis, Nikos. “South-South-South, An Introduction.” In Complex Entanglements: Art, Globalisation and Cultural Difference. Rivers Oram Press, 2004, pp. 1–17.
- Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, and Philip Johnson. “Introduction.” In International Style: Architecture Since 1922 . W. W. Norton & Company, 1932.
- Jones, Caroline. “Tatlin’s Babel” from UNESCO chapter.
- Eulau, Heinz H. F. “The New Soviet Nationalism.” In Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: (Adolescents in Wartime) . America Academy of Politica, 1944, pp. 25–32.
- Hoffman, Detleff. “The German Art Museum and the History of the Nation.” In Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles. Edited by Daniel J. Sherman and Irit Rogoff. University of Minnesota Press, 1994, pp. 3–21. ISBN: 9780816619535.
- 7 · São Paulo / Brasilia / Africa (from Cold War to postcolonial nationalisms – anthropophagology )
- Schwarz, Roberto. “The Cart, the Tram, and the Modernist Poet.” In Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture . Verso, 1992, pp. 108–25. ISBN: 9780860915768.
- Canclini, Nestor Garcia. “Latin American Contradictions: Modernism without Modernization?” In Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity . University of Minnesota Press, 1995, pp. 41–65. ISBN: 9780816623150.
- Asbury, Michael. “The Bienal de São Paulo: Between Nationalism and Internationalism.” In Espaço Aberto/Espaço Fechado: Sites for Sculpture in Modern Brazil . Edited by Curtis & Feeke. Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, 2006, pp. 72–83. ISBN: 9781900081993.
- Giunta, Andrea. Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties . Translated by Peter Kahn. Duke University Press Books, 2007, pp. 189–241 and 344–63. ISBN: 9780822338772.
- 8 · Osaka / Asia (orientalism and globalization – literary theory )
- Jameson, Frederic. “Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue.” In The Cultures of Globalization . Duke University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780822321699.
- Isozaki Arata. “Recalling The Days of Expo Art, 2001.” (2011): 72–80. Translated and edited by Machida Gen and Yoshimoto. (Expo ‘70 and Japanese Art).
- Clark, John. “A Spectacle of Questions.” Asian Art News (2006): 69–72.
- Rose, Barbara, Billy Klüver, et al. “Art as Experience, Environment, Process.” In Pavilion: Experiments in Art and Technology . Dutton, 1972, pp. 60–104.
- 9 · Documenta / Manifesta (cosmopolitanism, take 2 – transnationalism )
- Koundoura, Maria. “Speaking in Tongues: The Grammar of Transnational Capital and the Experience of Language.” In Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity: The Politics and Ethics of Global Culture Exchange (International Library of Cultural Studies) . I. B. Tauris, 2012, pp. 53–73 and 163–68. ISBN: 9781848857636.
- Vanderlinden, Barbara, and Elena Filipovic, eds. The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe . MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780262220767.
- 10 · Joahnnesburg / UAE (cities, branding, globalization theory – sociology )
- Boullata, Kamal. “A Place to Go.” In Belonging and Globalisation: Critical Essays in Contemporary Art and Culture. Saqi Books, 2008, pp. 137–46. ISBN: 9780863566660.
- Till, Christopher, and Lorna Ferguson. “Forward” and “Reflections on the Question: Why a Johannesburg Biennale?” In Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, 28 February-30 April 1995 . Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council, 1995, pp. 7–11. ISBN: 9780869981719.
- Enwezor, Okwui. “Preface and Introduction.” In Trade Routes: History and Geography: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale . Thorold’s Africana Books, 1997, pp. 7–12. ISBN: 9780620215220.
- Sardar, Ziauddin, Rasheed Araeen, and Sean Cubitt. Originally published as “Reverse Appropriation as Nationalism in Modern African Art.” In The Third Text Reader on Art, Culture and Theory. Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited, 2002. ISBN: 9780826458513.
- Gielen, Pascal. “The Biennial: A Post-Institution for Immaterial Labour.” In Open 16: The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon. nai010 publishers, 2009, pp. 8–17. ISBN: 9789056626679.
- Rogoff, Irit. “Geo-Cultures: Circuits of Art and Globalizations.” In Open 16: The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon. nai010 publishers, 2009, pp. 106–15. ISBN: 9789056626679.
- Thomas, Boutoux. “A Tale of Two Cities: Manifesta in Rotterdam and Ljubljana.” In The Manifesta Decade. Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe. Edited by Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic. MIT Press, 2006, pp. 201–18. ISBN: 9780262220767.
- Jacobs, Jane M. “Tradition is (Not) Modern: Deterritorializing Globalization.” In The End of Tradition? Edited by Nezar Al Sayyad. Routledge, 2004, pp. 29–44.
- Enwezor, Okwui. Trade Routes: History and Geography: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale . Thorold’s Africana Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780620215220.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.