UHON 402-010 Monuments and Memory Spring 2010
Wednesdays 1:00-3:30 pm, Honors Room 8
Professor Troy Lovata (lovata@unm.edu)
http://www.unm.edu/~lovata/spring10/monuments/
Office Hours (Honors Room 2B): 1:00-1:45 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30-4:30pm Wednesdays, and by appointment.
SCHEDULE
January
20 Introduction to class policies and procedures
Read: Musil’s “Monuments”; Selections from Wang’s Pencil Sketching and Sketching with Markers.
27 Place and Presence
Campus Tour
Read: Lovata Chapter 6; Calvino’s Invisible Cities
February
3 Persistence and Presence
In class discussion
Read: Calvino’s Invisible Cities; Holtorf’s “Megaliths, Monumentality and Memory”
10 More Thinking About Things and Place
Campus Architecture and Hodgin Hall Tour
Read: Lovata Chapter 1, 3 and 4
Turn in Sketchbooks/Portfolios for review.
17 The Living and the Dead
Fairview Cemetery Tour
Read: Selections from Brown’s Soul in the Stone: Vorenberg’s “Rest of History”; and Kelke's Churchyard Manual
Artifact and Place Assignment Due.
24 The Living and the Dead cont’d
Cemetery Tour cont’d
Read: Selections from Brown’s Soul in the Stone: Vorenberg’s “Rest of History”; and Kelke's Churchyard Manual
March
3
Public Art and Public Memory
In class discussion
Read: Selections from Senie’s Contemporary Public Sculpture; Selections from mass: Contemporary Arts in the Public Realm, Vol. XIII, Fall 2004; The City of Albuquerque’s Public Art Program Ordinance and Guidelines; and sample prospectii and proposals from the City of Albuquerque Public Art Program.
Turn in Sketchbooks/Portfolios for review.
Cemetery Assignment Due.
10 Guest Lecture TBA/Introduction to Landscapes of Violence
Read: Foote Chapter1
16 Spring Break, No Class
24 Landscapes of Violence cont’d
Bataan Park Tour
Read: Foote Chapters 2-5
31 Landscapes of Violence cont’d
Public Art/Veteran’s Park Tour, Trinity Site Tour Prep
Read: Foote Chapters 6-9
April
3 Saturday tour of the Trinity Site
7 Long Half Lives: Nuclear Memory
In class discussion
Read: van Wyck’s “American Monument”; Trauth, Hora and Guzowski’s Expert Judgement…
Landscapes of Violence Assignment Due.
14 Design, Work and Discussion Day
Read: Selections from The Public Art Workshop Series Handbook; Lovata Chapter 5; Selections from mass: Contemporary Arts in the Public Realm, Vol. XIII, Fall 2004.
21 Work Day
28 Work Day
May
5 Last Day of Class
Presentation of Final Projects, Course Evaluations.
Turn in Sketchbooks/Portfolios for final grading.
-TRL 01/10