Here I am attaching anything relevant or useful that I'd like to be sure you can reach if you need it.

Readings Suggested by Robert McCann

These throw light on his approach and thinking. The highlighting in the text drawing attention to possibly important aspects is by McCann.

• From Aesthetics and Its Discontents, Jacques Rancière, Problems and Transformations of Critical Art
• Visions Resistance To Language_Gilbert-Rolfe

Other Material

In relation to that consensus that has emerged during the last ten years or so. Robert Hughes wrote his American Visions on the history of modern American art in 1997, and it was also made into a series-documentary. You might like to check it out - our material kicks in at about chapter 6 or 7.

• Robert Hughes, American Visions - the full playlist on Youtube.

Today's (28 Feb) summary on Cubism, Surrealism and the problem of entropy

• Cubism, Surrealism, Entropy

In relation to de Kooning perhaps ...

• A fun little video that may turn out to be surprisingly important: Dashboard Doll - gotta love her!

In relation to Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko (and others) perhaps ...

• Circles of Tawhid and Wujud, An optical Illusion concerning the Islamic metaphysical universe
• A Cosmic Peacock, An optical Illusion illustrating something that happened to the concept of the metaphysical universe as the etymology of the words for beauty and divider/barrier shifted

In relation to Rothko perhaps ...

• Rothko, Seagram Murals,1958—60 - the meditative installation in the Tate Modern
• Rothko vandalised October 2012 - Wlodzimierz (Vladimir) Umaniec signed one of the Seagram murals in the Tate Modern, and has been jailed for two years
• 1964 Replica of Duchamp's 1917 Fountain - which is currently in the Tate Modern
• Rauchenberg's Erased de Kooning, 1953 - currently in the Museum of Modern Art, New York

In relation to Dubuffet

• Dubuffet, Group of Four Trees 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza
• Dubuffet, Villa Falballa, Perigny-sur-Yerres, 1976, overview
• The way in
• View into the Cabinet Logo-Logique
• The Cabinet Logo-Logique

In relation to Vasarely

• Cité polychrome de la bonheur, Aix-en-Provence (Fondation Vasarely)
• Blog entry with photos on the Cité polychrome de la bonheur (Plastolux)
• Rietveld Schröder House (wikipedia)
• Interior design: The Schröder House in Utrecht (Daily Telegraph, with slideshow)

For unit 10 and in relation to Fineberg p 15

• Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, 1955

For Unit 11-12 combined

• The BBC, Interview with Ono on Cut Piece, 1964 - her English is still restricting what she can say, but listen to her anyway. Note that "conceptual art" was barely defined and not understood at the time.
• Images & artist statement about Cut Piece - note her statements about what the performance cost her personally in emotional and psychological terms, and about the danger of the piece
• The Stanford Prison Experiment, 1971 - consider what happened here
• Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 0,1974 - compare her experience with Ono and the Stanford experiment
• Youtube except of Ono's Fly 1969
• Youtube video of Ono and Lennon talking about Fly - notice the self-deprecating attitudes and the way they make themselves easy targets, but notice that although the interviewer sought to ridicule them, the concept for their other film was funny but serious. (Can't show you the other film because the parental controls on my machine make it impossible to review ...)

Relevant to Unit 15 perhaps

• New York Times, Aug 1, 2008 - excellent article by Holland Cotter on the nature and process of Ad Reinhardt's black paintings, with slideshow
• Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting no 9 1960-1966 - check out this wiki photo of the painting on page 152 in Fineberg - notice Fineberg has done something no-doubt well-intentioned by rendering it in pure black-and-white. Wiki will let you see the use of violet and ochre, and will also let you see the conservation problem addressed in the link above.
• Ad Reinhardt, Newspaper Cartoonist: The Abstract Double Agent - check out this associated link too.

• Article on the less obvious Stella Paintings, exhibited 2011.
• Article on the End of Art, focussing especially on Stella's (traditional) view of himself

• Article on LeWitt's wall drawings,including the perceptual experience of approaching from a distance (Tate Modern)

For Unit 16, perhaps

• Tate Modern, Minimalism - just explore this fabulous collection. I've started you at Judd, notice the changing suggestions along the bottom and look for others.
• Minimalism with Polo Mints - OK perhaps we should be more serious, but enjoy this! Some of the works are misidentified, notably the Carl Andrés, but who cares? Surely the artists would not!
• Minimal Myth, Boijmans van Beuningen - and this is the exhibition the polo minter visited
• Minimalist Exhibition at the Walker Centre, Minneapolis in 2008. Nice range of exquisitely chosen material.
• Donald Judd
• Judd: Selected Sculptures and Interview, and the very nice selection works chronologically from the bottom of the page upwards
• Judd at the Portland Center for Visual Arts (PCVA), November 1974, lovely story and another great selection of his work
• A Good Chair is a Good Chair furniture by Judd.
• Judd: 15 unitled works in concrete, 1980-84, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
• Essay on the experience of Judd's work at Marfa, TX
• Judd's essay: Specific Objects (1965) - read it and decide for yourself what he is saying.

For unit 17 perhaps (we are diverging from the coursebook and its units now)

• Robert Morris
• Box with the Sound of its Own Making - an exhaustive search has not produced the sound itself, but this short entry describes the experience of it. The image is the version copyright the artist.
• Morris's account of John Cage listening to the box - the image is the version in the Seattle Art Museum.
• Untitled [three L-Beams] 1965-1970
• The Wedges, 1967 and 1970 - three-minute video with commentary on and history of the work (first shown in Leo Castelli Gallery, and then installed in permanent form in Fairmount Park). Morris speaks, interspersed with further commentary by Nena Tsouti-Schillinger, author of Robert Morris and Angst.
• Neo Classic, Tate Britain, 1971 - this was an audience-participatory installation of Morris' work that closed after four days owing to wind in the head (over-excitement in the participators).
• Interesting piece by Steve Dietz on the disastrous Tate show, its apparent intentions, its results, and the take of the artist and curators at the time.
• Bodyspacemotionthings, Tate Modern - attempted revival of Neo Classic, 2004
• And still there were injuries!
• Conservation Issues - raises the whole issue of what precisely a "Morris" work is
• Simon Grant interviews Robert Morris - a lot of direct commentary on his work and intentions.
• Going to raise a possibility in class - check these out in light of it
• Bodyspacemotionthings
• Performance of Column
• Site 1964 - the voice-over is not original but William Burroughs reading an excerpt from his 1965 novel, Nova Express.

For unit 18, if you like

• National Gallery of Art, Washington DC - very nice sequential overview of Dan Flavin
• Fashion Constructions - Flourescent Lights - excellent series of photos (exhibition at MUMOK, Vienna, closed Feb 2013
• Googletranslate of a German site on the Icons
• Attractive set of works dedicated to Barnett Newman
• Flavin at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX - it helps to know that his installations are in a series of U shaped barracks and the parallel corridors link the two "vertical" arms.
• Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth