What to Study?
Videos:
The Pill, The Anatomy of Desire, The Celluloid Closet, Sterilization of Leilani Muir
Articles:
Theriot's "Women's Voices"
Martin Elk's article in Robert Bogdan's Picturing Disability (available as an ebook through JAC library)
Robert Hutchin's "The Great Conversation." and "A Letter to the Reader"
Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to Write About Africa." and Horace Miner's "Nacerima"
Stephen Leacock's "The Woman Question."
Linda Nochlin's "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"
Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters
"I Am Almost a Prisoner." (Letters to Margaret Sanger)
Abigail Solomon-Godeau's “Canon Fodder: Authoring Eugene Atget
Alberti's "Objects and the Museum." OR Kohlstedt's “Thoughts in Things” OR Forgan's "Building the Museum"
Anne Maxwell's "Shifting Focus: Photographic Representations of Native Americans and African Americans."
Anne Fausto- Sterling's "Gender, Race, and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of 'Hottentot' Women in Europe, 1815–1817."
Richard Leppart's "Other's Bodies: Race and Class."
Mysoon Rizk "Constructing Histories"
Powerpoint:
Great Books, Atget, Orientialism. How to Tell the Boys from the Girls
Your job is to know the main arguments and features and some examples from each of the above.
The Pill, The Anatomy of Desire, The Celluloid Closet, Sterilization of Leilani Muir
Articles:
Theriot's "Women's Voices"
Martin Elk's article in Robert Bogdan's Picturing Disability (available as an ebook through JAC library)
Robert Hutchin's "The Great Conversation." and "A Letter to the Reader"
Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to Write About Africa." and Horace Miner's "Nacerima"
Stephen Leacock's "The Woman Question."
Linda Nochlin's "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"
Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters
"I Am Almost a Prisoner." (Letters to Margaret Sanger)
Abigail Solomon-Godeau's “Canon Fodder: Authoring Eugene Atget
Alberti's "Objects and the Museum." OR Kohlstedt's “Thoughts in Things” OR Forgan's "Building the Museum"
Anne Maxwell's "Shifting Focus: Photographic Representations of Native Americans and African Americans."
Anne Fausto- Sterling's "Gender, Race, and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of 'Hottentot' Women in Europe, 1815–1817."
Richard Leppart's "Other's Bodies: Race and Class."
Mysoon Rizk "Constructing Histories"
Powerpoint:
Great Books, Atget, Orientialism. How to Tell the Boys from the Girls
Your job is to know the main arguments and features and some examples from each of the above.
David Wojnarowicz
Get extra info and reading questions here.
Newsflash! No late penalty for Redpath essay until 530 Monday. paper copy HA-105.
Schedule
April 11th--How to Tell the Boys from the Girls
April 13th--Class cancelled to compensate you for field trips April 18th--READ Fausto- Sterling, Anne. "Gender, Race, and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of 'Hottentot' Women in Europe, 1815–1817." QUIZ April 21st--READ Theriot, Nancy M. “Women’s Voices in Nineteenth Century Medical Discourse: A Step Towards Deconstructing Science.” April 26th--READ "Constructing Histories: David Wojnarowicz's Arthur Rimbaud in New York." and PRESENTATIONS April 28th--PRESENTATIONS and Review May 2nd--Review/Movie day? May 4th Final Test and Celebrate End of Term! |
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Redpath Museum Visit and assignment
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Nice day at the museum!
Here are all the details for the assignment. Due April 20th. Please include fabulous museum selfies. Remember the museum is closed Saturdays. Find the articles on JSTOR: Alberti, Samuel J. M. M. "Objects and the Museum." Isis 96 (2005): 559-571. Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. “Thoughts in Things” Modernity, History, and North American Museums." Isis 96 (2005): 586-601. Forgan, Sophie. "Building the Museum: Knowledge, Conflict and the Power of Place." Isis 96 (2005): 572-585 |
Contemporary Artist Presentation
Get all the info on the Contemporary Artist Presentation here.
Post your choice of artist and some pictures of his or her work here.
Post your choice of artist and some pictures of his or her work here.
Be ready for Tuesday
Everyone gets a name or names from the "Shifting Focus" Maxwell article. Be ready to tell us what Maxwell say about him (or occasionally her).
Ahad, Nicole, and Madeleine: Louis Agassiz, J.T. Zealy and Samuel George Morton
Jaynelle and Cayleigh: Frederick Ward Putnam, Charles Dudley Arnold and Harlow Higgenbotham
Jamie and Olivia: Alice Fletcher and Frank Rhinehart
Vuyi: Buffon
Parminder and Lianne: Wassaja
Emma and Emma: Ishi (he is mentioned in two places in the text, so heads up!)
Adam, Ryan, and Gabrielle: Edward Curtis
Josiah and Jeff: Roosevelt and E. H. Harriman
Michael and Clara: Richard Pratt
Amanda and Amanda: Sun Elk and Sarah Walker
Clara, Cynthia, and Sara: Dixon
Sumbul, Zach and Shaun: Gerhardt Sisters
Laura: Fred Holland Day (He appears just at the end of the text. You might want to Google him to see his artwork.)
Luca and Kira: Go through the text and identify as many of Maxwell's secondary sources (other scholars whose work she uses) as you can and explain how she uses them.
Ahad, Nicole, and Madeleine: Louis Agassiz, J.T. Zealy and Samuel George Morton
Jaynelle and Cayleigh: Frederick Ward Putnam, Charles Dudley Arnold and Harlow Higgenbotham
Jamie and Olivia: Alice Fletcher and Frank Rhinehart
Vuyi: Buffon
Parminder and Lianne: Wassaja
Emma and Emma: Ishi (he is mentioned in two places in the text, so heads up!)
Adam, Ryan, and Gabrielle: Edward Curtis
Josiah and Jeff: Roosevelt and E. H. Harriman
Michael and Clara: Richard Pratt
Amanda and Amanda: Sun Elk and Sarah Walker
Clara, Cynthia, and Sara: Dixon
Sumbul, Zach and Shaun: Gerhardt Sisters
Laura: Fred Holland Day (He appears just at the end of the text. You might want to Google him to see his artwork.)
Luca and Kira: Go through the text and identify as many of Maxwell's secondary sources (other scholars whose work she uses) as you can and explain how she uses them.
Edward Curtis Photographer
Need more 5% or 10% Assignments?Here are some upcoming opportunities to keep your eyes for:
10% Time Use 10% Redpath Museum Paper 5% in-class quiz on reading(s) 10% Contemporary Art Presentation Upcoming stuffMarch 21 Representations of the Other in Science
READ: Elks, Martin. "Clinical Photographs.” (Available also through JAC Library website.) Search for Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen and Other Photographic Rhetoric. Ed. Robert Bogdan. March 23 Representations of the Other in Art READ: Leppert, Richard. "Others' Bodies: Race and Class." April 4th Representations of the Other in Anthropology READ: Maxwell, Ann. “Shifting Focus: Photographic Representations of Native Americans and African Americans.” Get reading questions to guide you through the article here. |
How many more assignments do you need?You need assignments adding up to 40%. Check LÉA to see where you are.
Examples: Done two 5% assignments? Still need to do 5% and 10% assignments adding up to 30%. Done two 5% assignments and one 10% assignment? Still need to do further assignments adding up to 20% Done three 5% assignments and one 10% assignment? Still need to do further assignments adding up to 15% percent. Remember also that in this course you can always replace a lower grade in this category with a higher one! |
Time Use Project (10%)
This project is due on or before April 6th. You need to start it *at least* a week before that.
Here is what to do:
1. Fill in the sheet that starts off, "If I only had more time I would..." Hand it in with your finished project.
2. Track your time use for one week. Tools to help with that are here and here but you can record your activities any way you like. Make sure you find some way of tracking your screen time. "Moment" is good for iphone. "BreakFree" is good for android. "RescueTime" is good for your computer. Hand in the chart, graph, etc. with your finished project.
3. Write a short paper (500+ words?) that discusses your findings. How well does the way you live your life match up with your ideals of how life ought to be lived? What works really well now, what could you do differently to have a more satisfactory life, why is this a challenge...
4. Hand it all on or before class April 6th.
This assignment will be marked on care and detail in collection and presentation of time use and screen time data, evaluation of how your results relate to things raised on sheet filled out in class, examination of and reflection on what you might do to make your real life more closely match your ideal life, and clear, organized, carefully written text.
Here is what to do:
1. Fill in the sheet that starts off, "If I only had more time I would..." Hand it in with your finished project.
2. Track your time use for one week. Tools to help with that are here and here but you can record your activities any way you like. Make sure you find some way of tracking your screen time. "Moment" is good for iphone. "BreakFree" is good for android. "RescueTime" is good for your computer. Hand in the chart, graph, etc. with your finished project.
3. Write a short paper (500+ words?) that discusses your findings. How well does the way you live your life match up with your ideals of how life ought to be lived? What works really well now, what could you do differently to have a more satisfactory life, why is this a challenge...
4. Hand it all on or before class April 6th.
This assignment will be marked on care and detail in collection and presentation of time use and screen time data, evaluation of how your results relate to things raised on sheet filled out in class, examination of and reflection on what you might do to make your real life more closely match your ideal life, and clear, organized, carefully written text.
Watch The Sterilization of Leilani Muir
Go to the John Abbott website. Go to Library. Search "Leilani Muir". We have the documentary on VHS (Woo!). Scroll down to find the online version. It is 45 minutes.
Make an Aide Memoire for the test
The rules: One side of one regular sheet of paper. Handwritten. All your own work aka not group work.
Making Connections |
How (not) to Write about Africa |
1. Using as much course material as possible, explain why there were no women writers in the original GBWW.
2. How has humour been used to help dominant groups maintain power? 3. Which do you think would be more open to taking Nochlin's points seriously: Hutchins or Leacock? Provide evidence for your claims. 4. Abbott (a woman) invested so much time and energy into canonizing a male artist. Explain. 5. How does the story of the Pill provide fodder for a criticism of Leacock's essay? 6. What does Nochlin believe needs to happen before women will be part of the canon. Have those things already happened? 7. How do Vasari, Hutchins, Nochlin and Solomon-Godeau differ in their understandings of the Great Works? |
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Quick Study Questions Generated by your Fellow students
Sometimes they even answered them, so watch for that. These have not been edited, so keep your eyes open in case some little errors have slipped in.
What to study?
Readings:
1. Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters
2. Robert M. Hutchins' “The Great Conversation.” and 3. "A Letter to the Reader."
4. Linda Nochlin's "Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?"
5. Stephen Leacock's “The Woman Question.”
6. "I Am Almost a Prisoner." (Letters to Margaret Sanger)
7. Abigail Solomon-Godeau's “Canon Fodder: Authoring Eugene Atget
Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to Write About Africa."
Horace Miner's "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema."
Powerpoints: 8.The West and Orientalism, A Good Idea at the Time (Great Books), Atget
Video: 9. The Pill, The Sterilization of Leilani Muir
Topics Addressed Include: Genius and Greatness, Great Books/The Canon (Definition and Defence, Inclusion and Exclusion, Revision and Criticism), Institutional and Societal Barriers to Equal Opportunity, The Idea of "The West" and Orientalism, the Art Historical Canon and the Art Museum as an Institution
1. Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters
2. Robert M. Hutchins' “The Great Conversation.” and 3. "A Letter to the Reader."
4. Linda Nochlin's "Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?"
5. Stephen Leacock's “The Woman Question.”
6. "I Am Almost a Prisoner." (Letters to Margaret Sanger)
7. Abigail Solomon-Godeau's “Canon Fodder: Authoring Eugene Atget
Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to Write About Africa."
Horace Miner's "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema."
Powerpoints: 8.The West and Orientalism, A Good Idea at the Time (Great Books), Atget
Video: 9. The Pill, The Sterilization of Leilani Muir
Topics Addressed Include: Genius and Greatness, Great Books/The Canon (Definition and Defence, Inclusion and Exclusion, Revision and Criticism), Institutional and Societal Barriers to Equal Opportunity, The Idea of "The West" and Orientalism, the Art Historical Canon and the Art Museum as an Institution
"Letter to the Reader" discussion questions
Is Hutchins' description of the "Fun Society" still true today?
Is is metaphor of cultural consumption as a diet useful?
Do you consume "inferior nourishment" as Hutchins did? Why?
Are you a browser or a planner?
What worlds have books led you to discover?
Were you surprised when Mr. GBWW said "reading can be boring"?
Do you agree with him about textbooks?
Do you think his assessment about learning in groups is accurate? Can you imagine other methods?
Are we still in the Age of Obsolescence?
Is is metaphor of cultural consumption as a diet useful?
Do you consume "inferior nourishment" as Hutchins did? Why?
Are you a browser or a planner?
What worlds have books led you to discover?
Were you surprised when Mr. GBWW said "reading can be boring"?
Do you agree with him about textbooks?
Do you think his assessment about learning in groups is accurate? Can you imagine other methods?
Are we still in the Age of Obsolescence?
What makes a Great Book Great?
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Read "the Great Conversation" for Tuesday
Here is a reading guide. Read the whole thing, but be extra ready to field questions on your section:
Modern Times: Luca, Janelle, Jamie, Emma and Emma
Education and Economics: Josiah, Clara, Karen, Kira, Vuyi,
Disappearance of a Liberal Education: Nicole, Ryan, Adam, Gabrielle, Ahad
Experimental Science: Sara, Shaun, Olivia, Lianne, Parminder
Education for All: Zach, Sumbul, Amanda and Amanda, Maddy
Education for Adults: Micheal, Jeff, Cynthia, Laura, Cayleigh
The Next Great Change: Meredith
Modern Times: Luca, Janelle, Jamie, Emma and Emma
Education and Economics: Josiah, Clara, Karen, Kira, Vuyi,
Disappearance of a Liberal Education: Nicole, Ryan, Adam, Gabrielle, Ahad
Experimental Science: Sara, Shaun, Olivia, Lianne, Parminder
Education for All: Zach, Sumbul, Amanda and Amanda, Maddy
Education for Adults: Micheal, Jeff, Cynthia, Laura, Cayleigh
The Next Great Change: Meredith
This is the Introduction to the Great Books of the Western World (GBWW) Series. It includes just about every argument for and against reading the Great Books and joining the Great Conversation.
Get it here. Hutchins makes snarky asides, big claims, kind of lame jokes, and
dire predictions. Watch for these.
Also maybe count the number of times he uses "man" or "men".
Get it here. Hutchins makes snarky asides, big claims, kind of lame jokes, and
dire predictions. Watch for these.
Also maybe count the number of times he uses "man" or "men".
Field Trip!
Ahad, Kira, Lianne, Josiah, Kalyleigh, Ben, Gabrielle, Emma and Amanda have signed up to go to the museum this Sunday. Want to join us that day, or another? Sign up!
Permanent collection at MMFA. Free for everyone under 30. You can bring a friend. There will be an essay topic option related to the trip and also 5% assignments.
It takes a little over an hour to get there by public transit.
BUS: Take the 411, 211 or 405 from John Abbott to Lionel-Groulx (it is the end of the route).
-Get on the metro and take the GREEN LINE to Guy-Concordia Metro (2 stops).
-Exit the metro and walk one block North (it is slightly uphill) to Sherbrooke St.
-Turn right on Sherbrooke and walk east 2 blocks.
Permanent collection at MMFA. Free for everyone under 30. You can bring a friend. There will be an essay topic option related to the trip and also 5% assignments.
It takes a little over an hour to get there by public transit.
BUS: Take the 411, 211 or 405 from John Abbott to Lionel-Groulx (it is the end of the route).
-Get on the metro and take the GREEN LINE to Guy-Concordia Metro (2 stops).
-Exit the metro and walk one block North (it is slightly uphill) to Sherbrooke St.
-Turn right on Sherbrooke and walk east 2 blocks.
Essay and Museum Assignment Topics
Everyone does an essay. Essays (20%) are based on the readings (including Hutchins) and the visit to the museum. Due Feb. 28th.
There are also (10%) assignments that are more creative. Due March 4th.
See all your options here.
P.S. Want to just do a 5% Assignment? You can analyze the architectural and curatorial choices in the new Michel and Renata Hornstein Building. 400 words.
P.P.S. What if you go to see the Chagall exhibit? (It is about $12)
For 10% you can compare how Chagall and Mapplethorpe were presented as "great artists".
There are also (10%) assignments that are more creative. Due March 4th.
See all your options here.
P.S. Want to just do a 5% Assignment? You can analyze the architectural and curatorial choices in the new Michel and Renata Hornstein Building. 400 words.
P.P.S. What if you go to see the Chagall exhibit? (It is about $12)
For 10% you can compare how Chagall and Mapplethorpe were presented as "great artists".
Eugene Atget Photographs at the MOMA
Check them out here.
Want to see what Berenice Abbott's photographs look like? And whether they looked like Atget's?
Click here.
Want to see what Berenice Abbott's photographs look like? And whether they looked like Atget's?
Click here.
How does a "Great Genius" make it into the Canon? (Reading for Tuesday)
Motherhood in Bondage
Q. How many letter did Sanger get?
A. 250 000 in the 1920s and she was still getting letters into the 1950s.
Read more about Sanger's collection of letters here.
You might also want to take a look at a book she published in 1920 What Every Girl Should Know.
A. 250 000 in the 1920s and she was still getting letters into the 1950s.
Read more about Sanger's collection of letters here.
You might also want to take a look at a book she published in 1920 What Every Girl Should Know.
Stephen Leacock
Download his 1916 essay "The Woman Question" here.
Is Leacock funny? Well, try the classic 1962 animated version of "My Financial Career" where he is "punching up".
Is Leacock funny? Well, try the classic 1962 animated version of "My Financial Career" where he is "punching up".
Images from the Nochlin Article (Do girls make "girlie" art? You be the judge!)
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The Plan
Presentations Thursday.
On Tuesday be ready to discuss Linda Nochlin's 1971 article, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists." (We will also do more presentations.)
Kathleen Gilje, Linda Nochlin in Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Begère, 2005.
P.S. Want reading questions to go with the article? They're here.
On Tuesday be ready to discuss Linda Nochlin's 1971 article, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists." (We will also do more presentations.)
Kathleen Gilje, Linda Nochlin in Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Begère, 2005.
P.S. Want reading questions to go with the article? They're here.
Vasari
First homework assignment. (5%) Due THURSDAY.
1. Choose one artist from Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painter, Sculptors and Architects. This webpage makes it easy to browse the artists.
2. Sign up for your artist by posting pictures of your artist's work on the student website. (How? Go here. And enter the username and password sent to your MIO. It is a drag and drop website, so it is pretty easy.)
3. Read Vasari's description of your artist. Make notes. Pay attention to what Vasari writes about the artist's life story, family, training, strengths and weaknesses. If there is anything unexpected or strange make note of it. You will get 2-3 minutes to give us Vasari's version of your artist's life. Your presentation and notes will count as the first of many 5% assignments.
You can choose any artist, but I kind of have a wish list and am hoping someone will choose some of these guys: Cimabue, Titian, Bronzino, Pollaiuolo, da Vinci, Raphael, Lucca Del Robbia, Fra Filiippo Lippi, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Bellini, Mantegna, Tintoretto, Andrea del Verrocchio, Georgione and Fra Sebastiano del Plombio and Perugino and Raphael. Some of the artists' lives are crazy long. Don't pick one of those unless you are highly motivated!
1. Choose one artist from Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painter, Sculptors and Architects. This webpage makes it easy to browse the artists.
2. Sign up for your artist by posting pictures of your artist's work on the student website. (How? Go here. And enter the username and password sent to your MIO. It is a drag and drop website, so it is pretty easy.)
3. Read Vasari's description of your artist. Make notes. Pay attention to what Vasari writes about the artist's life story, family, training, strengths and weaknesses. If there is anything unexpected or strange make note of it. You will get 2-3 minutes to give us Vasari's version of your artist's life. Your presentation and notes will count as the first of many 5% assignments.
You can choose any artist, but I kind of have a wish list and am hoping someone will choose some of these guys: Cimabue, Titian, Bronzino, Pollaiuolo, da Vinci, Raphael, Lucca Del Robbia, Fra Filiippo Lippi, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Bellini, Mantegna, Tintoretto, Andrea del Verrocchio, Georgione and Fra Sebastiano del Plombio and Perugino and Raphael. Some of the artists' lives are crazy long. Don't pick one of those unless you are highly motivated!