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P2P Visual Art Discrepant Modernisms Community Agreements

January 20, 2026

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Manifestos, Artist Statements and How they help reveal a Visual Art Thread

Thought Questions Wait. What is a Manifesto? What is an artist statement? Manifesto: A bold public declaration aimed to persuade and convert readers and/or to fiercely describe an artist or artist group's rules, policies, and guiding opinions. Please skim the following manifestos, choosing two to read very carefully. Write down three principles that interest you as material to work with or against in your own principles. Yvonne Ranier, author of the "No Manifesto' to learn more about Ranier, consider this documentary site . Ranier's 1965 manifesto, the "No Manifesto," proposes a form pared to it's absolute minimum. No Manifesto No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe. No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image. No to the heroic. No to the anti-heroic. No to trash imagery. No to involvement of performer or spectator. No to style. No to camp. No to seduction of specta...

Welcome to ART'S DISCREPANT MODERNISMS

Julie Buffalohead, Trickster Showdown, ~2019 Professor Betsy Towns townsb@uncsa.edu office: 109 WWV office hours (at the library café, in my office, via walk-and-talk, or on zoom) by appointment- just email me with your available times. Online presence PTP CLass Blog will show weekly class notes, images, presentations CANVAS (for required readings, online syllabus, assignment portals, etc. ) & syllabus: for class policies, practices, and calendar Visual Art: includes forms such as painting, drawing, architecture, sculpture, installation, performance art, ceramics, photography, video and audio art, crafts, conceptual art.... Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as applied or decorative arts and crafts , Discrepant: lacking agreement; differing; at variance; inconsistent. Modernism(s): in the traditional definition, a 19th and 20th century movement, in art, philosophy, and...

Black Art in the Absence of Light

Jordan Casteel, The Relentless Pursuit, Oil on canvas, 56 × 72 inches, 2025 Jordan Casteel, Direct Response , detail 2021, oil on canvas, 1.8 × 1.4 m. Jordan Casteel, Direct Response , 2021, oil on canvas, 1.8 × 1.4 m. Jordan Casteel, The Carolinas Oil on canvas, 94 x 80 inches, 2021 Carrie Mae Weems’s Untitled (Woman and Daughter with Children) from The Kitchen Table Series (1990) Kerry James Marshall, Past Times , from 1997 Amy Sherald, Precious Jewels by the Sea, 2019, oil on linen, 120 × 108 × 2 1/2 in. "Becoming an artist is not empirical. It's not about hard work. I mean, you have to put in the hard work but that doesn't mean you're going to make it. Kehinde Wiley, John Mensah, Samuel Eto'o and Emmanuel Eboue , ~2010 Romare Bearden, Serenade, 1969, collage, 45" x 32 " Kehinde Wiley, b. 1977, LA Hank Willis Thomas born 1976 Plainfield Theaster Gates, born 1973, Chicago Sanford Biggers, Codeswitch, 2018 Sanford Bigg...

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