ARTH 541

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Seminar in Modern Art

Credit: 4 hours.

Investigation of special problems in the history of twentieth-century art. Students present reports of their research.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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ARTH 541 class schedule data for spring 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51045	Lecture	KR	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	Flagg Hall	Romberg, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Section Info: Topic: Structure and Agency (Seminar in Modern Art). This seminar considers the ongoing negotiation between structure and agency in modern and contemporary art. An understanding of modernism based on autonomy and personal freedom will be put in tension with conceptualizations of flattened, non-sovereign, or broadly based notions of authorship. Readings will be drawn from the history of art and design, sociology, political theory, and aesthetic theory and will touch on ideas of political realism, embeddedness, likeness, low theory, disciplinary decolonizing, and non-sovereignty. Although we will consider a number of art-historical case studies, class meetings will revolve around the reading, with no particular period or regional focus. Participants will need to work independently to develop a seminar project that is in dialogue with our shared themes. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.