Modern Art History in Review 2

Open toArt Program BFA2.
Art Program BFA2 students will be pre-enrolled in
this class.

This course will interrogate the contentious
shifts from high modernism to postmodernity to
the present understanding of an art world
situated within the larger framework of global
culture. Along the way, we will consider the
emergence (and, in some cases, the continued
resonance) of movements such as Abstract
Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual
Art within a broader cultural context. The course
will examine the significant role played by
critics and criticism, including the writing of
artists in articulating the dominant aspirations
and values of art in the second half of the 20th
Century, as well as the ways in which feminism,
globalism, and poststructural theories have
continued to shape artistic discourse into the
present.