The first day of class will be Tuesday 31 January 2:30 pm – 3:40 pm at SQH 1120
• Bring in as many course books as you have so far
• Bookmark the course website, be sure you are receiving coursemail
• Check out which section you are in and meet your TA
• Learn how to do Ass. #1
See the Syllabus tab above for more. See the 1: Museums tab for Ass. #1. You can get started on it even before this first class. Lots of fun involved in it too!
BOOKS!
These are the books that have been ordered for our class.
Remember, you are required to READ these, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have to buy them. Please feel free to borrow them from (24 hr. book)
Reserves at McKeldin, or any other library, or a friend, or rent them. Please share with other students too. If you do buy them, any edition is fine, used is great, get them wherever you can as works best for you.
Freeland. 2002.
But Is It Art? Oxford. 0192853678
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W. on OUP]
"By challenging the exclusion of women from lists of great artists or musicians, feminists are questioning the
canon in these fields.... Feminists criticize canons because they enshrine traditional ideas about what makes for 'greatness' in art, literature, music, etc; and this 'greatness' always seems to exclude women...." (132)
hooks. 2000.
Feminism is for Everybody.
South End. 0896086283
Google.
Amazon. [
W. on SE]
"I want to have in my hand a little book so that I can say, read this book, and it will tell you what feminism is, what the movement is about. I want to be holding in my hand a concise, fairly easy to read and understand book...a straightforward, clear book -- easy to read without being simplistic. From the moment feminist thinking, politics, and practice changed my life, I have wanted this book." (viii)
Moore & Prain. 2009.
Yarn Bombing.
Arsenal Pulp. 1551522551
Google.
Amazon. [
W. on AP]
"...the definitive guidebook to covert textile street art. This full-color DIY book features 20 kick-ass patterns that range from hanging shoes and knitted picture frames to balaclavas and gauntlets, teaching readers how to create fuzzy adornments for lonely street furniture. Along the way, it provides tips on how to be as stealthy as a ninja, demonstrates how to orchestrate a large-scale textile project, and offers revealing information necessary to design your own yarn graffiti tags. The book also includes interviews with members of the international community of textile artists and yarn bombers, and provides resources to help readers join the movement...." (from the Arsenal Pulp site)
Pérez. 2007.
Chicana Art.
Duke. 0822338688
Google.
Amazon. [
W. on DUP]
"This book was concieved as an altar-like structure itself -- a structure marking the meeting of the embodied and the disembodied, the visible and the invisible, the formal and the conceptual -- and strewn with a handful of important objects: here, central themes in Chicana feminist art." (14)
Reed. 2005.
The Art of Protest.
Minnesota. 0816637717
Google.
Amazon. [
W. UMP]
"Many movements form strong cultures of their own, called 'movement cultures,' which offer alternative models for what our collective civil and civic lives might be like, a part of their argument about the ways we have continually fallen short of creating a just, egalitarian community.... the texts I am interested in most are the movements themselves, with their cultural productions as a means to that end." (xv, xvii)
Seeley. 2007.
Fight Like a Girl.
NYU. 0814740022
Google.
Amazon. [
NYUP]
"But my question is: Why
aren't we angry? All of us -- female, male, trans, intersex alike? And why aren't we speaking up and acting out? ...What if women stood together, joined forces, and understood the common thread of oppression we collectively face? What if we realized our power? What if?" (9)
