Read: What we do... (the art scene in Garfield Park) & Stop using the word "Ghetto"

1. What We Do Is (Unintentionally) Secret

by Kelly Reaves

Meaning: Complex / Simple

Read:

Wikipedia entry on Public Enemy's 1990 recording Fear of a Black Planet

Lyrics to "Fight the Power"
Public Enemy

1989 the number another summer (get down)
Sound of the funky drummer
Music hittin' your heart cause I know you got sould
(Brothers and sisters, hey)
Listen if you're missin' y'all
Swingin' while I'm singin'
Givin' whatcha gettin'
Knowin' what I know
While the Black bands sweatin'
And the rhythm rhymes rollin'
Got to give us what we want
Gotta give us what we need
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death
We got to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say

Fight the power

Chorus

As the rhythm designed to bounce
What counts is that the rhymes
Designed to fill your mind
Now that you've realized the prides arrived
We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
It's a start, a work of art
To revolutionize make a change nothin's strange
People, people we are the same
No we're not the same
Cause we don't know the game
What we need is awareness, we can't get careless
You say what is this?
My beloved lets get down to business
Mental self defensive fitness
(Yo) bum rush the show
You gotta go for what you know
Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be
Lemme hear you say...
Fight the Power

Chorus

Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother fuck him and John Wayne
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud
I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped
Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
Sample a look back you look and find
Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
Don't worry be happy
Was a number one jam
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here
(Get it) lets get this party started right
Right on, c'mon
What we got to say
Power to the people no delay
To make everybody see
In order to fight the powers that be

Lyrics to "Shake your bon-bon
by Ricky Martin

I'm a desperado underneath your window.
I see your silhouette.
Are you my Juliet?
I feel a mad connection with your body.
Shake your bon-bon, shake your bon-bon, shake your bon-bon.

I wanna be your lover, your only latin lover.
We'll go around the world in a day.
Don't say no, no.
Shake it my way, oh shake your bon-bon,
shake your bon-bon, shake your bon-bon.
Hola Amiga, hola Amiga.
You're my temple of desire.
We'll go around the world in a day.
Don't say no, no.
Shake it my way, oh shake your bon-bon,
shake your bon-bon, shake your bon-bon.

You're a Mata Hari.
I wanna know your story.
In the Sahara sun I wanna be the one that's gonna come and take you,
make you shake your bon-bon, shake your bon-bon, shake your bon-bon.
Up in the Himalayas, c'mon I wanna lay ya.
We'll go around the world in a day.
Don't say no, no.

Shake it my way, oh shake your bon-bon,
shake your bon-bon, shake your bon-bon.

Images (weeks 1-4)

Sandro Botticelli

"Birth of Venus"

(1492)

“Venus de Milo” (Aphrodite from Melos).

(130-100 BC)

Found in Melos in 1820

Yves Klein

"Blue Venus"

(1960)

Lady Gaga

(2010)

"Vanitas: Flesh dress for an albino anoretic "

Jana Sterbak

(1987)

Leigh Bowery

Read: Grace Jones

"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
Pablo Picasso
(1907)

African Mask

"Everyone I ave ever slept with 1963-1995"

Tracey Emin

(1995)

Jeff Koons

Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank

(1985)

"Piss Christ"
Andres Serrano
(1987)

"Fountain"
Marcel Duchamp
(1917)

Jackson Pollock
"Greyed Rainbow"
(1953)

Kehinde Whiley
"Ice T"
(2005)

Politics, Propaganda, Portraiture

The Politics of the Retouched Headshot
by Virginia Postrel
The Atlantic (2008)

Barack Obama poster
"Hope"
by Shepard Fairey

read the analysis : The Obama "Hope" poster case by Bruce E. Boyden

visit Fairey's web site: Obey Giant

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

"Napoleon I on his Imperial throne"

(1806)

Assignment: Read and Watch

*Rethinking Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ"
(morality and censorship in art)

http://cruciality.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/rethinking-serranos-piss-christ/

Required visit to the Art Institute of Chicago

press this link for more information on Museum hours, rates and directions:
Art Institute of Chicago

The following is a list of works you must study during your visit: