Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SHUM 4986 - Art, Economy, Spectacle

(crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 4486 SPAN 4850 , VISST 4986 )
Spring. 4 credits.

Enrollment limited to: 15 students.

P. Erber.

The course approaches the emergence of contemporary art in the late twentieth century from the perspective of its relationship with the culture industry and, more broadly, with the capitalist economy. We will explore articulations and intricacies of art as a mode of occupation of time and space with the spheres of labor and leisure in the contemporary world. Topics for discussion include contemporary art and contemporaneity; the commodification of the art object; matter, materialism and dematerialization; aura and fetish; spectacle, spectatorship, and participation; mimesis, fiction, and counterfeiting; artistic practice between work, labor, and praxis. Readings and visual materials range from Marx’s Capital to Cildo Meireles’ Insertions into Ideological Circuits, from Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle and Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory to Akasegawa Genpei’s 1,000 Yen Note Model and Alexander Alberro’s Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity.



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