ARTH 242

Fall 2019 All Classes

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Art Since 1940

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Credit: 3 hours.

The scope of this course begins amidst the devastation and geopolitical shifts that followed World War II and ends with the effects of globalization in the 1990s and 2000s. We will ask the same questions that faced artists and critics in between: Should art focus on its own material processes or open its borders to historical flux? Is it art's job to create the cultural myths that bind society together, or to deconstruct them? Who participates in modern and contemporary art, and who doesn't? What kinds of production should be considered art? How are specific formal strategies informed by the perspectives of different subject positions? What politics underwrite them? We will consider, and reconsider, the existing narratives about art during this period with a dual aim: first, to better understand the historical positions of the artists in question, and, second, to piece together a prehistory of the moment in which we currently find ourselves.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ARTH 242 class schedule data for fall 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	70039	Lecture	1	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	316 Art and Design Building	Romberg, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: This course begins with the devastation of World War II and ends with the effects of globalization in the 1990s and 2000s. We will think about the questions that artists and critics faced in the years in between: Should art focus on its own material processes or open its borders to historical flux? Is it art's job to create the cultural myths that bind society together, or to deconstruct them? Who participates in modern and contemporary art, and who doesn't? What kinds of production should be considered art? How are specific formal strategies informed by the perspectives of different subject positions? What politics underwrite them? We will reconsider the existing narratives about art during this period with a dual aim: first, to better understand the historical positions of the artists in question, and, second, to piece together a prehistory of the moment in which we currently find ourselves.