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 Reference Links for Politics of Portraiture Study ©Donna Cameron 2016

STATEMENT OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
            Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work as though it were your own.  More specifically, plagiarism is to present as your own: a sequence of words quoted without quotation marks from another writer or a paraphrased passage from another writer’s work or facts, ideas or images composed by someone else. Please contact Donna Cameron at dc17@nyu.edu for information about this course.

INTRO
 
Viewpoint: The Advertisement of an IDEAL SELF in Private and Public Forums

http://www.ditext.com/packard/toc.html Chapter 1 "The Depth Approach" and Chapter 23, "Question of Morality"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/body-image Current and Archived Articles 

Reading Reference: "PORTRAITURE" by Richard Brilliant, CHAPTERS 1 & 2: PDF download

 For the readings, many- but not all- of the books which are classics have ONLINE links. The Bobst Library online has all of the books on the list, some available by e-account.

Here are other links- more links are listed on your syllabus- OTHER PDF REFs are emailed week to week. You need to access them through your own e-book account.
 
FOR SESSION 1 & 2:
 

Man and His Symbols, 1964, Carl Jung, Aldus Books, London

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Symbols-Carl-Gustav-Jung/dp/0440351839%3FSubscriptionId%3D0JRA4J6WAV0RTAZVS6R2%26tag%3Dworldcat-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0440351839

 

The Hero Within, 1989, Carol Pearson, Harper-Collins Publishers, NY

 Online access: https://archive.org/details/herowithin002330mbp


The Power of Myth, 1988, Joseph Campbell, Doubleday

PBS Broadcast upload with Bill Moyers: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3c8ADKoNeU
 
Episode 3 only: "The First Storytellers" broadcast excerpt and written script of interview:
http://billmoyers.com/content/ep-3-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-the-first-storytellers-audio/ 
 

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949, Joseph Campbell, New World Library 

http://www.tekgnostics.com/dnload/campbell-the_hero_with_a_thousand_faces.pdf

 

PDF_Campbell_The Hero with a Thousand Faces

YOUTUBE links to Martin SCORCESE's early introspecive films & portraits.

"IT'S NOT JUST YOU MURRAY" (divided into three parts)
ITALIANAMERICAN:
 
http://www.soulcraft.co/essays/the_12_common_archetypes.html (Carl Jung)
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/characters/pearson_archetypes.htm (Carol Pearson)
http://www.olympic.org/ancient-olympic-games?tab=the-athlete (Athletics in Ancient Greece)
http://www.factualworld.com/article/Antimachus_I

Portrait Traditions of Ancient Bactria_PDF download

"HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES" by Joseph Campbell: PDF download

3. MASK Studies

Reading Reference: "AFRICAN MASKS: I Am Not Myself": PDF download

YOUTUBE LINKS: MASK PERFORMANCES, RITUALS, CEREMONIES
MASKS AND MEN SOLI OUMEN & KOMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQKKqbpHKuY&feature=related
KOKOBA WEST AFRICAN MASKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eckCUEo0jHw

MWANO PWO CIRCUMCISION MASK DANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJk1LMEw28Q
DOGON MASK DANCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgSYBa4Vjes&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzE08aInn4&feature=related
 
Pharaonic Egypt Studies: MET
Class itinerary to be presented in class at MET.
NOTE: This lecture is site specific. It CANNOT be repeated and it cannot be recorded.
 
Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/
Middle Kingdom Dynastic Egypt 
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/180644/Egyptian-art-and-architecture/59899/Refinements-of-the-Middle-Kingdom
Faiyum Egypt 
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-oldest-modernist-paintings-20169750/
Egypian Wing Collection, MET
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/museum-departments/curatorial-departments/egyptian-art
Meketre
http://www.metmuseum.org/met-around-the-world/?page=10157&
Senwosret lll
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/26.7.1394
Hatshepsut
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-queen-who-would-be-king-130328511
 

Eve, Animus, Archetype

All About Eve, 1950, directed by Joseph Mankiewicz.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Eve

http://www.reelclassics.com/Movies/AllEve/alleve.htm

Joseph Mankiewicz' Film SCRIPT:

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/all_about_eve.html

 

Dorian, Anima, Archetype

The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945, directed by Albert Llewin.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde/

http://www.literaturepage.com/read/wilde-essays-lectures.html

Oscar Wilde's letter from prison "DE PROFUNDIS"

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/921

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Profundis_(letter)

 

Renaissance: Golden Age of Portraiture

http://www.artchive.com/artchive

Italian Renaissance masters: Giotto; Duccio; Fra Angelico; Ghirlandaio; Donatello; Manchega;

Masaccio; Michaelangelo; Da Vinci; Raphael; Botticelli; Bellini; Giorgione; Titian; Tintoretto. 

http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/  (Da Vinci)

http://www.ehow.com/info_8611765_characteristics-renaissance-art-styles.html

http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5791  (The Petrarchan Sonnet)

http://www.theatrehistory.com/italian/commedia_dell_arte_001.html  (Commedia Del Arte)

http://www.caravaggio-foundation.org/ (Caravaggio)

http://www.biography.com/people/caravaggio-9237777?page=3

 

American School Studies: MET

Class itinerary to be presented in class at MET.
NOTE: This lecture is site specific. It CANNOT be repeated and it cannot be recorded.
 
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/new-installations/american-wing
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/entertainment/american-art-the-colonial-period.html
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=4
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/hudson.html
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Self-Reliance, Circles, the Transcendentalist (4 Essays)                        
http://www.emersoncentral.com 

 

Native American Identity: NY Smithsonian Studies

National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian) 1 Bowling Green. 

http://www.nmai.si.edu/ 

http://nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/infinityofnations/

http://www.native-languages.org/home.htm  

http://nmai.si.edu/visit/newyork/architecture-history/      

http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1248&ResourceType=Building

 

Cultural Fusion and Personal Identity

"The Searchers", 1956, Directed by John Ford.
 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049730/

Glenn Frankel, "The Searchers" Talks At Google:  

http://youtu.be/m_2zqZx8N5o

“American Obsession” by J. Hoberman (2/22/13)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/books/review/the-searchers-by-glenn-frankel.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0