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Art History 1110

Starting Points for Social Theory

Feminism and Gender Theory

Beauvoir, Simone de, and H. M. Parshley. 1949. The second sex. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, U.K.: Penguin Books.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble (1990) Routledge: London. pp.1-13

Millett, Kate. 1969. Sexual politics. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Conkey, Margaret W. and Spector, Janet D. "Archaeology and the Study of Gender." Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 7 (1984): 1-38. Accessed October 8, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20170176.

Gero, Joan M. "Honoring Ambiguity/Problematizing Certitude." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 14, no. 3 (2007): 311-27. Accessed October 8, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25702346.

Nochlin, Linda, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” ArtNews(1971). pp. 1-26.

Rubio, Sandra Lozano (2011) Gender Thinking in the Making: Feminist Epistemology and Gender Archaeology, Norwegian Archaeological Review, 44:1, 21-39, DOI: 10.1080/00293652.2011.572674

Critical Race Theory

Gibson, Chantal N. and Monique Silverman. "Sur/Rendering Her Image: The Unknowable Harriet Tubman." Canadian Art Review, 2005, 30(1/2), 25-38

Gordon, Avery. "Introduction" and "Chapter 1" in Ghostly Matters, 2008. xv-28

Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo. "Still Thinking about Olympia's Maid.The Art Bulletin, 2015, 97(4), 430-451.

Livingston, Josephine. "The Whitney Museum's Careless Attempt to Curate a Summer of Black Uprising." The New Republic. August 25, 2020. 

Miner, Horace. "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" American Anthropologist, 1956, 58(3), 503-507

Naunton, Chris. "Decolonising, Egyptology & the Dirty Little Secret." July 23, 2020

Schenk, Lejo and Meta Knol. "The Distinction between Western and non-Western Art is Outdated." Framer/Framed. 

Critical Disability Theory

Eisenhauer Richardson, J.T. (2018). The art and politics of artists with mental disabilities experiencing confinement. Studies in Art Education, 59(1). 8-21.  

Eisenhauer, J. and Richardson, J. (2014). Dr. Phil, medical theaters, freakshows, and talking couches: The talking stage as pedagogical site. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 8(1), 67-80.  

Eisenhauer, J. (2008). A visual culture of stigma: Critically examining representations of mental illness. Art Education, 61(5), 13-18. 

Eisenhauer, J. (2007).Just looking and staring back: Challenging ableism through disability performance art. Studies in Art Education, 49(1), 7-22. 

Wexler, A., & Derby, J. (2015). Art in Institutions: The Emergence of (Disabled) Outsiders. Studies in Art Education, 56(2), 127–141. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45185124

Disability Studies in Art Education Interest Group might have some helpful resources. 

Materialism

Appiah, Kwame Anthony, “Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?” Cultural Heritage Issues (2010), pp. 207-221

Dean, Carolyn. "The Trouble with (The Term) Art.Art Journal, 2006 65(2), 24-32.

DeMarrais, Elizabeth & Castillo Butters, Luis & Earle, Timothy. (1996). Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies. Current Anthropology 37. 10.1086/204472.

DeMarrais, Elizabeth & John Robb (2013) Art makes society: an introductory visual essay, World Art, 3:1, 3-22, DOI: 10.1080/21500894.2013.782334

Derrida, Jacques. (1993). Specters of Marx. Routledge

Marx, Karl, “The Capitalist Character of Manufacture,” In Carma Gorman’s (Ed.) The Industrial Design Reader (2003). pp. 22-25.

Sillar, Bill. “The Social Agency of Things? Animism and Materiality in the Andes.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19, no. 3 (2009): 367–77. doi:10.1017/S0959774309000559.

Ten Hoeve, Lee. "Why Visual Culture should Impact our Curriculum."The Art of Education."  March 1, 2017. 

Weismantel, Mary J. Seeing like an archaeologist : Viveiros de Castro at Chavín de Huantar. In: Journal of Social Archaeology. 2015 ; Vol. 15, No. 2. pp. 139-159

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