SELF PORTRAIT SEMINAR
Provisional Schedule of
lectures and presentations: (subject to
change)
January 13
Introduction/Course Requirements
January 15
Shearer
West, “Self-Portraiture”, in Portraiture,
163-186.
Part A
Part B
January 20 MLK Holiday
January 22
(Albrecht Dürer) Joseph Leo
Koerner, “Prosopopoeia” in The Moment of
Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art. 3-33.
Part A
Part B
January 27 January 27 Mary
D. Garrard, "Artemisia Gentileschi's
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting,"
The Art Bulletin, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Mar., 1980), pp. 97-112
January 29
(Artemisia Gentileschi)
Griselda Pollock, “The
Female Hero and the Making of Feminist
Canon” in Differencing the Canon:
Feminist Desire and the Writing of
Art’s Histories. New York: Routledge, 1999. 97-127.
February 3 Perry Chapman. "Discovery of the Self," in Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990: 10-33. Part A Part B Part C
February 5
Laura Auricchio, “Self-Promotion
in Adelaide Labille-Guiard’s 1785 ‘Self Portrait with Two Students’”, Art Bulletin,
vol. 89, no. 1 (March 2007), pp. 45-62. JSTOR
February 10
Steinberg, Leo. "Velazquez' Las
Meninas," October 19 (Winter 1981): 45-54.
JSTOR
Mary Crawford Volk,
“On
Velazquez and the Liberal Arts,”
Art Bulletin 60:1
(March 1978): 69-86. JSTOR
February 12 cancelled
February 17
Sarah Burns, “Ordering the Artist's Body
Thomas Eakins' Acts of Self-Portrayal” in American Art, Volume 19,
Number 1 (Spring 2005): 82–107 JSTOR
February 19
Carol Zemel. "Self-Portraits: The Construction of Professional Identity,"
in Van
Gogh's Progress: Utopia, Modernity, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Art. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997: 135-69.
PART A
PART B
PART C.
February 24 Brendan Prendeville, “Varying the Self: Bacon’s Versions of van Gogh,” Oxford Art Journal, vol. 27, no. 1 (2004), pp. 25 -42. MAT DUNCAN
February 26
Patricia Berman, "Edvard Munch's
Self-Portrait with Cigarette: Smoking
and the Bohemian Persona," Art Bulletin
75:4 (December 1993): 627-646. JSTOR
March 3 March 3
Peter
Springer, “The Artist as Exemplary
Sufferer,” and “Kirchner as a Follower of Dürer,” in
Hand and Head; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s
Self-Portrait as Soldier. Trans. Susan Ray. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2002: 63-75, 111-114
March 5
Whitney Chadwick, “An Infinite Play of Empty Mirrors” in
Mirror Images:
Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation.
Ed. Whitney Chadwick. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998: 3-35
PART A
PART B.
March 10
How to write a bibliography and cite sources in paper.
March 12
Grimberg, Salomon. “Frida
Kahlo: the Self as an End,” in Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation.
Ed. Whitney Chadwick. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998: 83-104
PART A
PART B.
March 17 - 21 Spring Break
March 24 Katy Kline, “In or out of
the Picture: Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman” in
Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism,
and Self-Representation. Ed.
Whitney Chadwick. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998: 67 - 81.
March 26
A. Benjamin, “Betraying Faces:
Lucien Freud’s self-portraits”, in
Art, Mimesis
and the Avant-Garde, London, 1991. 61-74.
March 31
Bibliographies due and discussion of thesis statement.
April 2
Bradford R. Collins,” Dick Tracy and the Case of Warhol’s Closet: A
Psychoanalytic Detective Story,” in American Art, vol. 15. no.3 (Autumn
2001) 54-79.JSTOR
April 7
Bradford Collins, “Modern Romance:
Lichtenstein’s Comic Book Paintings,” American Art, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 60-85 JSTOR
April 9
Amelia Jones, “The Eternal Return:
Self Portrait Photography as a Technology of Embodiment, Signs, vol. 27,
no. 4 (Summer, 2002) 947-78
April 14 Research Day
April 16 Research Day
April 21
Long Student Presentations (2)
April 23
Long Student Presentations (2)
April 28
Long Student Presentations (2)
Final Exam
11:30 a.m. Wednesday
Long Student Presentations (2)