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Art History (ARH)
105 Lawrence Hall, 541-346-3675
College of Design
Course Data
  ARH 354   Contemporary Art >1 >IP >US 4.00 cr.
Survey of contemporary art in the West from 1945 to the present in relation to historical, social, cultural, and political concerns.
Grading Options: Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
Instructor: Lawhead EE-mail
Course Materials
 
  CRN Avail Max Time Day Location Instructor Notes
  43420 6 45 1000-1150 mtwr
6/22-7/19
00 REMOTE Lawhead E  
Academic Deadlines
Deadline     Last day to:
June 24:   Add this course
June 24:   Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded)
June 25:   Last day to change to or from audit
June 27:   Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded)
June 29:   Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded)
July 1:   Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded)
July 9:   Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded)
July 9:   Change grading option for this course
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Expanded Course Description
This course is an introductory survey of art in the West since World War II. It will address the ambitions and contexts of Abstract Expressionism, postwar European painting, Happenings, Fluxus, Situationism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Performance Art, Video Art, New Media Art, and more. Special attention will be paid to artists’ writings and to theories of modernism and post-modernism. Issues of identity, pluralism and tolerance are foregrounded throughout the course, both as the artists' specific intention (much postwar art is explicitly about identity; for ex., art explicitly concerned with feminism, identity politics, the culture wars, religious identity, and so on) and as critical and historical frameworks for understanding artistic production more broadly (postwar art criticism and methods take issues of identity as their starting point; for ex., feminist and post-colonial critiques of art institutions and the discipline of art history itself). This course will also introduce students to various critical approaches and historical models applied to the analysis of contemporary art (1945-present). It will train students in skills for viewing and writing about art in relationship to historical, social, cultural, and political concerns. Students who successfully complete this course will acquire the historical and critical tools necessary to recognize and contextualize the major artists, works, movements, and themes associated with contemporary art in Europe and North America.
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