Readings List for Contemporary Art, Theory, and Pedagogy
“The Syllabus”
from On Course: A Week-By-Week Guide to Your First Semester of Teaching
by James Lang
Bauhaus Manifesto
“Notes on an Imaginist Bauhaus” by Asger Jorn
“Why Designers Can’t Think” by Michael Bierut
“From Work to Text” by Roland Barthes, in the anthology Art After Modernism
“The Work of Representation”
from Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
Selections from Mythologies by Roland Barthes
Terry Barrett’s Principles of Interpretation
“Toward a Process for Critical Response” by Liz Lerman
“Problem-Posing Education: Freire’s Method for Transformation” by Nina Wallerstein
“What is the ‘Dialogical Method’ of Teaching?" by Ira Shor and Paulo Freire
“What is Critical Pedagogy?”
“Key Terms and Concepts Related to Critical Pedagogy”
“Methods of Detournement” and “Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation” from the SI Anthology
“Postmodern Principles: In Search of a 21st Century Art Education” by Olivia Gude
“Approaches to Postmodern Art-making” by Terry Barrett
“Color Coding” by Olivia Gude
Introduction to
Finding Art’s Place: Experiments in Contemporary Education and Culture
by Nicholas Paley
“The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators” by bell hooks
Visual Culture Glossary
from Practices of Looking by Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright
“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” by Laura Mulvey
“I, Designer” by Kalle Lasn
“Ten Footnotes to a Manifesto” by Michael Bierut
“Feminist Pedagogy: Identifying Basic Principles” by Lynne M. Webb
“Engaged Pedagogy” by bell hooks
from Teachingn to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“Queering Art Teacher Education” by Kim Cosier and James Sanders
“Ten Suggestions for Reducing Homophobia in Your Environment”
“Textual Strategies: The Politics of Art-Making”
by Judith Barry and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Selections from
Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms
by Stephen Brookfield and Stephen Preskill
“Preparing for Discussion” and “Getting Discussion Started”
“The Teacher’s Breasts” by Jane Gallop
“The Emancipatory Pedagogy of Performance Art” by Charles R. Garoian
from Performing Pedagogy: Toward an Art of Politics
“La Pocha Nostra’s basic methodology” by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Rachel Rogers
from Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activisim, and Pedagogy
“’This Performance Art Is For the Birds;’ Jackass, ‘Extreme Sports,’ and the De(con)struction of Gender”
by Robert Sweeny
“Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box” by Trinh T. Minh-ha
from Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
“How Do They Conduct Class?” from What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain