For those of you interested, here are the texts I am using for my Visiting Artist Seminar Classes. Many of them can be found in the MassArt Library, and also the articles are available on the JSTOR database.
REQUIRED TEXTS
James Elkins WHAT PAINTING IS
Mira Schor WET: On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture
David Batchelor CHROMOPHOBIA
REQUIRED ESSAYS
W.E.B. DuBois "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" from THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
Cornell West "The New Cultural Politics of Difference" from OUT THERE: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures
Walter Benjamin THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION
Susan Buck-Morss AESTHETICS AND ANAESTHETICS: Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered
Sol LeWitt SENTENCES ON CONCEPTUAL ART & PARAGRAPHS ON CONCEPTUAL ART
Cornell West "The New Cultural Politics of Difference" from OUT THERE: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures
Walter Benjamin THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION
Susan Buck-Morss AESTHETICS AND ANAESTHETICS: Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered
Sol LeWitt SENTENCES ON CONCEPTUAL ART & PARAGRAPHS ON CONCEPTUAL ART
RECOMMENDED
Gerhard Richter ATLAS
Charlotte Mullins PAINTING PEOPLE: Figure Painting Today
Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz THEORIES AND DOCUMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Agnes Martin WRITINGS
VITAMIN P: New Perspectives in Painting
VITAMIN D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Gerhard Richter ATLAS
Charlotte Mullins PAINTING PEOPLE: Figure Painting Today
Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz THEORIES AND DOCUMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Agnes Martin WRITINGS
VITAMIN P: New Perspectives in Painting
VITAMIN D: New Perspectives in Drawing