Ahst 3318 001 Contemporary Art and Architecture

AHST 3318 001

Dr. Charissa N. Terranova

University of Texas at Dallas

Arts & Humanities

Fall 2007

Tuesday-Thursday 2:30-3:45 p.m.

HH 2.402

11.15.07

-Philip Johnson, AT&T Building, today the Sony Building, New York, 1979

[-Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, “Modern Architecture: International Exhibition,” MoMA, 1932]

[-Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, The International Style: Architecture since 1922, 1932]

[-Philip Johnson, Glass House, New Canaan, CT, 1949]

II. Deconstruction

1. 
   Introduction
   

1. 
   differance
   
2. 
   Vincent Van Gogh, Still Life of Shoes, 1886
   

2. 
   Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
   
3. 
   Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996)
   

2. 
   Deconstructing Painting and Art tout court
   

-Roy Lichtenstein, Stretcher Frame with Crossbars V, 1968

-Joseph Kosuth, One & Three Hammers, 1965

-Sigmar Polke, Laterna Magica, 1988-96

-Sigmar Polke, Laterna Magica Zyklus I-XXI, 1995

-Sigmar Polke, Goat Cart, 1992

C. Deconstructing Teleology

1. telos

-Raphael, School of Athens, 1508-11

-Parmigianino, Madonna with the Long Neck, 1535

-J.-L. David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784

-C. D. Friedrich, Abbey in the Oak Forest, 1809

2. anti-telos

-Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991

-Damien Hirst, Albumin, Human, Glycated, 1992

-Damien Hirst, Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything, 1996

-Damien Hirst, Saint Sebastian: Exquisite Pain, 2007

III. Deconstruction and Architecture

[-Rodchenko, Exercises in Constructive Assembly from “Spatial Inventory,”1922]

[-Lissitzky, Proun No. 1, 1923]

[-Burov, Club for 300 People, 1927]

[-Leonidov, Sovkino Film Studios, 1927]

-Bernard Tschumi with Jacques Derrida, Parc de la Villette, Paris, 1982-92

-Daniel Libeskind, Jewish Museum, Berlin, 1989-99

-Zaha Hadid, Office Building on the Kurfürstendamm, Berlin, 1986

-Zaha Hadid, Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH, 2003

-Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA; Elia Zenghelis, Rem Koohaas, Matthias Sauerbruch), Checkpoint

Charlie Housing, Berlin, 1990

-Frank Gehry, Gehry House, Santa Monica, 1978

-Frank Gehry, Fish Dance Restaurant, Kobe, Japan, 1986

-Frank Gehry, Winston Guest House, outside of Minneapolis, 1986

-Frank Gehry, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1990