Readings

Question 1

Smith, Terry. “Contemporary Art, Contemporaneity, and Art to Come.” In Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, 27-53. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019

Question 2

Lamoureux, Johanne. “Avant-Garde: A Historiography of a Critical Concept.” In A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945, edited by Amelia Jones, 191-211. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Question 3

Perry, Gill. “Primitivism and the ‘Modern’.” In Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century, Charles Harrison, Francis Frascina and Gill Perry eds. New Haven: Yale/Open University Press, 1993, 3-45.

Question 4

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, 1909.” In Manifesto. A Century of Isms, ed. Mary Ann Caws,185-189. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Question 5

Tzara, Tristan. “Dada Manifesto, 1918.” In Manifesto. A Century of Isms, ed. Mary Ann Caws. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, 297-304.

Question 6

Butt, Gavin. “’America’ and Its Discontents: Art and Politics 1945–60.” In A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945, edited by Amelia Jones, 18-37. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Question 7

Kosuth, Joseph. “Art After Philosophy.” In Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, 158–177. Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 1999.

Question 8

Kaprow, Allan. “Guidelines for Happenings.” In Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings, edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, 833. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Question 9

Robert Smithson, “The Spiral Jetty,” In Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings. Edited by Jack D. Flam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, pp. 143-153.

Question 10

Holt, Nancy. “Sun Tunnels.” In Documents of Contemporary Art: Nature, edited by Je􏰀rey Kastner, 639. London: Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, 2012.

Question 11

Paik, Nam June. “Afterlude to the Exposition of Experimental Television,” In Documents of Contemporary Art: Media, edited by Edward A. Shanken. London: Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, 2010.