32101
Advanced Seminar
SoSe 20: The Human Being in Contemporary American Art
Joshua Shannon
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ONLINE COURSE ----- This course offers an overview of innovations in American art since 1950, while specifically asking how this art has represented what a human being is, or could be. Thus, we will consider a range of ideas about the human that contemporary American art has proposed or played with: individualism, collectivity, heroism, modesty, dreams of mastery, dreams of merger with nature, etc. Of particular concern will be the fluctuating myth, in American culture in this period, of a universal human condition, as it has confronted identity categories such as gender, race, sexual orientation, and class. We will consider subjects ranging from portraiture and landscape art to abstraction, in media including painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and performance. Some meetings will be devoted broadly to movements, others to specific artists. Frequent in-class discussions will complement the lectures. Please register on Campus Management as well as at: culture@jfki.fu-berlin.de with your name, matriculation number, study program, home university (if applicable), zedat email address or email address of home university, and type of exchange program (if applicable). close
10 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2020-04-22 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2020-04-29 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2020-05-06 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2020-05-13 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2020-05-20 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2020-05-27 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2020-06-03 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2020-06-10 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2020-06-17 10:00 - 12:00
Wed, 2020-06-24 10:00 - 12:00