32101
Advanced Seminar
SoSe 16: The Challenge of Contemporary Art within American Culture
Heather Diack
Comments
This course provides a critical survey of visual art practices from the 1950s to the present with the United States. By analyzing the multiple legacies of the early avant-garde and the development of the global art market, this course will consider the social, political, and philosophical questions raised by postmodernism and its formative influence on art after WWII. Movements to be covered include Conceptual art, Land art, Performance, installation, site-specificity, relational aesthetics, and other manifestations of the expanded field. Methodological approaches include deconstruction, as well as feminist and post-colonial critique. Students are encouraged to critically consider the changing status of social and cultural values in an image-saturated world alongside themes and concepts such as the everyday, the artificial, hyperreality, mass-reproduction, difference, appropriation, and affect. close
10 Class schedule
Additional appointments
Wed, 2016-05-11 10:00 - 13:00Regular appointments
Wed, 2016-05-18 10:00 - 13:00
Wed, 2016-05-25 10:00 - 13:00
Wed, 2016-06-01 10:00 - 13:00
Wed, 2016-06-08 10:00 - 13:00
Wed, 2016-06-15 10:00 - 13:00
Wed, 2016-06-22 10:00 - 13:00
Wed, 2016-06-29 10:00 - 13:00
Wed, 2016-07-06 10:00 - 13:00
Wed, 2016-07-13 10:00 - 13:00
Wed, 2016-07-20 10:00 - 13:00