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New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Open Arts Program, Politics
of Portraiture©2017 by Donna Cameron Syllabus Page 1 POLITICS OF PORTRAITURE OART-UT 826-001 (15118) 4 credits Open Arts Program Donna Cameron©2017 Email: to.donnacameron@gmail.com Spring 2017: 1/23 – 5/8 Tuesday, 2:00 pm – 4:40 pm GCASL, 238 Thompson Street, Room 388 COURSE OVERVIEW This class explores the legacy of the art of the portrait through lectures, multimedia presentations, and field trips to museums and galleries. With in-class discussions, essays and collages, students will learn to analyze archetypes and icons used in popular culture as well as in art history. Ritual expressions of the portrait will be examined. There will be projects, essays and a final exam. Students will be expected to keep a Class Journal and to contribute to class discussions. STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the completion of this course, the student will: 1. Appreciate the personal and public message relayed in the portrait art studied in class;; 2. Acquire basic language skills with which to communicate ideas about poetics and politics of the portrait;; 3. Understand contemporary local identity in the global landscape through the study of historic portrait art;; 4. Apply knowledge of the roots (both political and artistic) to the historic topics of study;; 5. Engage collaboratively in the study of the portrait making process through class multimedia assignments;; 6. Value the skills necessary for the interdisciplinary artistic collaboration essential to the making of portraits. COURSE
TEXTS Required The Hero Within, 1989, Carol Pearson, Harper-Collins Publishers, NY A Short History of Myth, 2005, Karen Armstrong, Canongate, NY The Wisdom of Eve, 1944, Mary Orr, Charles Scribner & Sons, NY The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1897, Oscar Wilde, Lippincott, Philadelphia Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Organic Anthology, 1957, SE. Houghton Mifflin Reference The Hidden Persuaders, 1957, 1980, Vance Oakley Packard, Simon & Schuster Man and His Symbols, 1964, Carl Jung, Aldus Books, London The Searchers, 2013, Glenn Frankel, Bloomsbury, USA, New York Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs, 2005, Joshua Wolf Shenk, Houghton Mifflin The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together, Twyla Tharp, 2009, Simon and Schuster Paperbacks Recommended The Power of Myth, 1988, Joseph Campbell, Doubleday The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949, Joseph Campbell, New World Library Portraiture, 1991, Richard Brilliant, Reaktion Books, Ltd, London Extra Credit A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916, James Joyce, Penguin Classics Frankenstein, 1816, Mary Shelley, Signet Classics, Penguin Books, NY Syllabus Page 2 CALENDAR Spring 2017 DUE FIRST CLASS- VIEWPOINT COLLAGE. Topic: “A Picture with a Subliminal Message”. Materials: Written words, paper print picture, digital personal post. Read & Compose: http://www.ditext.com/packard/toc.html Chapter 1, "The Depth Approach", Chapter 17, "Politics and Image Builders", Chapter 21, "The Packaged Soul", and Chapter 23, "Question of Morality". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/body-image Article of your choice. Pick a Huff post article. Find a paper portrait in an ad in a separate popular culture publication- like a magazine or newspaper- that you think relates to the Huff Post article that you select. Discuss how both the paper ad and the Huff article display a similar subliminal message of class, race, gender, etc., and influences the way you process the Huff article and/or ‘read’ the paper ad’s picture. Physically change (collage) the ad picture or caption, showing how/what the ad messaged subliminally. Reflect & Post: Write a 60-word or less statement about your Viewpoint Collage. Refer to the readings. Post the statement and a cell phone pic of your collage to the class Facebook page. Bring the original collage to the first class on 1/24 to present and discuss with your FB post. Keep your Viewpoint Collage in your Class Journal. (Info is on pg. 3 under “Class Journal”). SESSION 1: (1/24) Picture and Subliminal Message… Your Viewpoints Theme: A look at how words and images are used in product emphasis to advertise a subliminal message. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 1: All students participate. Viewpoint Assignment presentations. Film: Italian-American, 1974, Directed by Martin Scorsese. FOR NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework: The Power of Myth, Ch. 1-3, “Myth and The First Storytellers”. REF. A Short History of Myth. JOURNAL Homework: Create a Mythic Selfie word & image collage. Upload it to the class FB page. Write a 50-word essay about mythic selfhood. Refer to the book, A Short History of Myth in your statement. SESSION 2: (1/31) Portraits and Myth: The Idea of the Portrait Theme: What is a portrait? What is a myth? True or false? Self-recognition and cultural identity in portraiture. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 2: All students participate. Lecture/discussion. Topic: about myth. Onsite talk/exhibit: NYU ART GALLERY’s new show, with guest speaker. FOR NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework: The Hero Within, Intro & Chapter 1, “Choosing Freedom”;; Chapter 2, “Surviving Difficulties”. Man & His Symbols, Chapter 1, “Approaching the Unconscious”. Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt. REF. JOURNAL Homework: Create an Orphan Archetype collage (pg. 62, The Hero Within). SESSION 3: (2/7) Funerary Arts of Egypt: Dynasties and Trends Theme: Dual worlds bridged in the funerary and portrait arts of ancient Egypt. Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd St. http://www.metmuseum.org/ Media/Discussion Session 3: All students participate. FOR
NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework: The Hero Within, Chapter 4, “Proving Your Worth”. Man & His Symbols, Chapter 2, “Ancient Myths & Modern Man”. African Masks, "I Am Not Myself", pg. 11 -35. REF. JOURNAL Homework: Create a Warrior Archetype collage (pg. 62, The Hero Within). Project: Mask Self-Portrait & 200-word Essay (Due 2/14 in class): Imagine a mask, which describes you. Make it out of materials that you can access, in your daily life. Make it a wearable, functional mask that expresses your idea of yourself as the warrior archetype. Write a 200-word essay about your personal identity as projected in this mask. “Wear" the mask when you present it in class;; speak the essay as though it is the voice of the mask. Syllabus
Page 3 SESSION 4: (2/14) Masks: Presentation of Individual Mask & Essay Projects Theme: Masks and strength, personal archetype models: I face the world. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 4: All students participate. FOR NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework: The Wisdom of Eve (play) by Mary Orr. The Hero Within, Chapter 5, “Showing Generosity”. Man & His Symbols, Chapter 3, “Process of Individuation”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Eve http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/ Journal Homework: Create an Altruist Archetype collage (pg. 148, The Hero Within). SESSION 5: (2/21) Eve: Animus and Archetype Theme: Portraiture as The Character Study: Identity, Event, Change, Purpose, Destiny. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 5: All students participate. Film: All About Eve, 1950, Directed by Joseph Mankiewicz. FOR NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework: The Hero Within, Chapter 6, “Achieving Happiness”. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/ http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4078 (1890) Journal Homework: Create an Innocent Archetype collage (pg. 179, The Hero Within). SESSION 6: (2/28) Dorian: Anima and Archetype. Theme: Portraiture as the Power Mirror: Creation, Interactivity, Change, Purpose, Destiny. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 6: All students participate. Film: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945, Directed by Albert Lewin. FOR NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework: Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs- REF. The Hero Within, Chapter 7, “Transforming Your Life”. Journal Homework: Create a Magician Archetype collage (pg. 212, The Hero Within). New York University, Tisch
School of the Arts, Open Arts Program, Politics of Portraiture©2017 by Donna Cameron SESSION 7: (3/7) Portraits:
Midterm / Portrait Pairs Project Prep: In Class Session. Theme: Public and personal archetype models: how do we face the world together? Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 7: All students participate. In Class Pairs Project Studies Session. FOR NEXT WEEK: Mid-term exam project, prompt TBA. Midterm exam handed out. SPRING BREAK: (3/14). No class! Midterm exam due in class 3/20. Syllabus Page 4 SESSION 8: (3/21) Mid-term Exam Due, Presentations of Mid-term Portrait
Pairs Project. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 8: All students participate. Presentations of Mid-term Project. FOR NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework Man & His Symbols, Chapter 4, “Symbolism in the Visual Arts”. http://www.artchive.com/artchive: Renaissance masters Petrarch, Giotto, Duccio, Fra Angelico, Mantegna, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Tintoretto & Titian. http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/ Rembrandt. SESSION
9: (3/28) Life in the Renaissance. Theme: The seminal artists and politics of the Renaissance;; the beginnings of modern portraiture in Western art. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 9: All students participate. FOR NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework: Nature, Self-Reliance, Circles, the Transcendentalist (4 Essays) FREE DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.emersoncentral.com Journal Homework: Project:1000-word American Portrait ESSAY. (Due 4/9). Select a portrait by an American artist in the MET American collection. Refer to the ethics and political beliefs projected by the artist ab out the subject. Cite one or more of the assigned Emerson essays. Use terminology (‘schema’, etc.) from the class vocabulary list, and other assigned class readings. Analyze your chosen artist’s materials and aesthetic strategy. Write a 1000-word essay about your research and the art which you selected. (See ‘Essay Protocol” on page 6.) Email your essay to: to.donnacameron@gmail.com Email goes to instructor, put your name in the subject field: MY NAME_American Portrait Essay. No print out necessary. Keep a copy for your final Class Journal Portfolio. Due in class 4/11. SESSION 10: (4/3) American Portraits: Pre-Colonial to Impressionist Legacies. Theme: Pre-colonial to Impressionist legacies. Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St. http://www.metmuseum.org/ Media/Discussion Session 10: All students participate. Journal Homework: Project: 1,000-word American Portrait ESSAY: (Due 4/11). (See Session 10 for prompt.) SESSION 11: (4/11): An American West Portrait Theme: Cultural and racial conflict expressed on film. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 10:
All students participate. Film: “The Searchers”, 1956, Directed by John Ford. FOR NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework: Glenn Frankel, "The Searchers" (Book). Glenn Frankel, "The Searchers" | Talks At Google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2zqZx8N5o&feature=youtu.be “ American Obsession” by J. Hoberman (2/22/13) HTTP://WWW.NYTIMES.COM/2013/02/24/BOOKS/REVIEW/THE-SEARCHERS-BY-GLENNFRANKEL.HTML?PAGEWANTED=ALL&_R=0 "The Essentials" Robert Osborne/Scott McGee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny8l9sce4mI http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16113/The-Searchers/ http://www.tcm.com/essentials/article.html?cid=615708&mainArticleId=615659 Journal Homework: Project: 2000-word American West ESSAY (Due 5/2). Focusing on the historic victim and protagonist of the story, Cynthia Ann, discuss the complex relations between Native Americans and European settlers in the United States at the time that she lived. Think about global tribal politics now and its relevance to the cultural identity of Cynthia Ann. Discuss each time of cultural exchange that you experience in this portrait--that of the Ford film’s production (1956), that of the Cynthia Ann (1836) and that of the Frankel book’s publication (2013). Cite insights in the Frankel text that allude to the loss of the original captivity narrative of Cynthia Ann, the adaptation of the same story in Ford’s film, the J. Hoberman review @nytimes.com and the popular culture TCM YouTube discussions. How does each make an American icon of the legendary Cynthia Ann? This is your final exam essay and is due by digital transmission at: to.donnacameron@gmail.com No print out necessary. Keep a copy in your Class Journal. Due in final class, 5/2. Syllabus Page 5 SESSION
12: (4/18) Contemporary Portrait Art/Class Studies, TBA. Theme: Contemporary portrait makers. Final Project Research. Prompt TBA. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 12: All students participate. FOR NEXT WEEK: Reading Homework: The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together REF SESSION 13: (4/25) Contemporary Portrait Art/Class Studies, TBA. Theme: Contemporary portrait makers. Final Project Research. Prompt TBA. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 13: All students participate. FOR NEXT WEEK: Journal Homework: Project: Complete your final PDF portfolio of your complete class portfolio. This PDF portfolio includes: 1. VIEWPOINTS COLLAGE & ESSAY. 2. MASK & ESSAY PROJECT. 3 MIDTERM PROJECT & ESSAY. 4. ORPHAN COLLAGE. 5. WANDERER COLLAGE. 6. WARRIOR COLLAGE. 7. ALTRUIST COLLAGE. 8. INNOCENT COLLAGE. 9. MAGICIAN COLLAGE. 10. AMERICAN Portrait ESSAY. 11. AMERICAN WEST ESSAY. 12. FINAL PROJECT. Due 5/2 via email. SESSION 14: (5/2) Final Project and Exam due, Class Journal PDF Portfolio due. Final Project due. Location: Classroom. Media/Discussion Session 14: All students participate. New York University,
Tisch School of the Arts, Open Arts Program, Politics of Portraiture©2017 by Donna Cameron Syllabus Page 6 COURSE PROTOCOL COURSE REQUIREMENTS This course requires that students attend class. The course requires that the students individually produce a CLASS JOURNAL consisting of visual collages and written essays of varying lengths, as assigned weekly in class and/or via web communications. Timely completion of all work and exams are mandatory for passing midterm and final grades. Students are responsible for weekly readings and discussions as assigned. SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS There is one syllabus, IN TWO PARTS, an Online Syllabus and a Classroom Syllabus. The Online Syllabus (class dates and themes listing) is online. (Digital.) and The Classroom Syllabus is for enrolled students only and is given out in class. (Paper.) The syllabus may be subject to updates and change by the instructor. ESSAY PROTOCOL Each essay assignment for this class must be properly formatted. Contact instructor with any questions. Essay Format o MLA. If you do not know MLA format go to http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/format.htm Essay Length o Fulfill the assigned number of words in your essay prompt. Each essay has a different prompt. Essay Document Layout o Essay Cover Page: (Author (you), date, title of essay). This is the first page of the essay. o Image Page: you must include an image. Caption image: Title, Author, Media, Date, Source. o Written Essay Pages. Number essay pages o Essay Citations Index Page: Please include citations of the media, texts and any information cited in your essay on a separate page titled: Citations Index. This last the last page of the essay. TEACHING STYLE The semester is a cycle of activity in and outside of the classroom. Lectures and critical information, complimented by weekly course readings, are brought into the classroom sessions. Individual weekly paper collage multimedia projects and assigned exam projects encourage the student to diverge and express independent thought and personal assimilation of the academic materials. Several project presentations converge the individual explorations back into the classroom. ATTENDANCE POLICY If you are/will be absent, please notify the instructor in advance. Absence due to illness, personal or family crisis must be documented. No more than one (1) missed session per student for the aforementioned reasons will be tolerated. Arriving late to a class or leaving early from a class will count as undocumented absence and may lower the student’s grade average. CLASS JOURNAL The Class Journal of visual and written weekly assignments must be physically composed of raw materials- i.e. papers and materials in print-preferably, recycled or repurposed and collaged in some way. At the end of the term, each student will be required to migrate submit his/her Class Journal in PDF form. The final Class Journal PDF must include all material collages and written essays assigned for this class. *Source Credit: Please note that the found image paper collages must include a source of publication notation on the back, with the title of the work, your name and date. All written essays, of any word length, must be original, written in proper English grammatical form and include a bibliography and citations. 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. Syllabus Page 7 COURSE
PROTOCOL (continued) GRADING POLICY Weekly Assignments (20%): Students will be prepared to discuss readings and materials. Weekly Class Attendance and Participation 20%): Students are required to attend class and participate in class discussions and studies. Prompt, consistent attendance to all classroom and onsite off campus lectures is a required part of class participation. Midterm Exam (30%): All students are required to complete a midterm exam by the scheduled date. Final Exam (30%): All students are required to complete a final exam by the scheduled date. EXTRA CREDIT For extra credit consideration, select one of the above literary works under the “Extra Credit” label on the reading list. Contact the instructor for further information. USE OF ALL RECORDING DEVICES Use of all recording devices, including analog and/or digital devices without prior permission of the instructor is strictly prohibited. Image and/or audio recording or WEB posting of/during/about the class in any way without prior permission of the instructor is not tolerated. Recording and classroom activity and/or persons in any medium without prior permission of the instructor will adversely affect the final grade. Checking email and social media during class, including film screenings, is not permitted and may lower the final grade. STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLE The core of the educational experience at the Tisch School of the Arts is the creation of original academic and artistic work by students for the critical review of faculty members. It is therefore of the utmost importance that students at all times provide their instructors with an accurate sense of their current abilities and knowledge in order to receive appropriate constructive criticism and advice. Any attempt to evade that essential, transparent transaction between instructor and student through plagiarism or cheating is educationally self-defeating and a grave violation of Tisch School of the Arts community standards. For all the details on plagiarism, please refer to page 10 of the Tisch School of the Arts, Policies and Procedures Handbook, which can be found online at: http://students.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html ACCESSIBILITY Academic accommodations are available for students with documented disabilities. Please contact the Moses Center for Students with Disabilities at (212) 998-4980 for further information. ORDER OF CLASS SESSION THEMES THIS SEMESTER 1. Pictures and Subliminal Message. Viewpoint Essay due. Classroom. (1/24) 2. Myths and the Idea of the Portrait. Classroom. (1/31) 3. Portraits of Ancient Egypt. MET. (2/7) 4. Masks: Individual Mask & Essay due. Classroom. (2/14) 5. Eve, Animus and Archetype. Classroom. (2/21) 6. Dorian: Anima and Archetype. Classroom. (2/28) 7. Portraits: In Class Midterm Projects Study Session. Classroom. (3/7) 8. Spring Break. (3/14) 9. Midterm Exam & Presentations Due. Classroom. (3/21) 10. Renaissance: Golden Age of the Portrait in Western Art. MET. (3/28) 11. American Portrait Legacies. MET. (4/4) 12. An American West/American Legend Study. American Portrait Essay due. Classroom. (4/11) 13. Contemporary Portrait Art Group Study. Classroom. (4/18) 14. Contemporary Portrait Art Group Study. Classroom. (4/25) 15. Final exam and presentation in class. TBA. American West Legend Essay due. Classroom. (5/2)
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