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Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art

May 15, 2013 by Erica Mena

A beautiful book with excellent reproductions of some of the most interesting works of collage in contemporary art. I found it slightly lacking in context. Though the two essays that were included were interesting they could have been more thoroughly developed. The O’Reilly essay made some really surprising reductions of the development of early twentieth-century collage techniques. Still a lot of good concepts raised – a good introduction for undergraduates beginning to think critically about collage. The second essay posited […]

Categories: Reading Journal • Tags: art of stealing, collage

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Notes on Conceptualisms by Richard Fitterman and Vanessa Place

May 11, 2013 by Erica Mena

Was considering assigning this for The Art of Stealing, but though there are moments that are very interesting, as a whole the book fell short of my hopes. The Fitterman section seemed a little too enamored of its own brilliance, as evidenced by the reliance on fairly obtuse language and a lot of the kind of name-dropping reference that is fine for notational purposes but I think is really a kind of self-satisfied flouting of ones’ own library. Though I […]

Categories: Reading Journal, Teaching • Tags: art of stealing, conceptual writing, manifesto, notes on conceptualisms, richard fitterman, translation

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The Art of Stealing

May 4, 2013 by Erica Mena

This summer I’m once again teaching a course of my design at my alma mater, UMass Boston. Go Beacons! (Ok, that may be the lamest mascot ever, but since I never cared about sports, I just think it’s funny.) The course starts in a little under a month, and frankly, I’m feeling a tad panicky. But the good, stage-fright kind where I’m so excited about the course, and have so much I want to do that I’m panicking that we […]

Categories: Teaching • Tags: art of stealing, creative appropriation, syllabus, teaching, uncreative writing, unoriginal genius

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