Week 4: RAD! (Recognizing & Affirming Differences) or Identity Politics in Art

Passionate Irreverence: The Cultural Politics of Identity, Coco Fusco

On the Matter of Whiteness, Richard Dyer

Alters of Sacrifice: Remembering Basquiat, bell hooks. Follow the link to: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n6_v81/ai_13917784/print

In Search of the "Inauthentic" Disturbing Signs in Contemporary Native American Art, Jean Fischer

Picture a Coalition, Gregg Bordowitz

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Lisa Nochlin. Follow link to: http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ews410/nogreatwomen.html

And watch:

The Guerilla Girls at the Feminist Future Symposium, MoMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHVBZh5HBgc

 

Further Reading:

What's White...? Thelma Goldin

Braciality and Nationhood in Contemporary American Art, Kym Pinder

Things are Queer, Jonathan Weinberg

and many more, just ask erica...

 

Please see Erica for copies of the readings if you need (I had to delete them off our website memory).