Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0227 - Theories of Modern and Contemporary Art

This course will examine the ways that 20th- and 21st-century philosophers, theorists, and critics have approached the art of their time, and the ways that modern and contemporary art illuminates and grounds theoretical projects. Via writings by philosophers, theorists, critics, and artists, we will traverse a selected history of 20th- and 21st-century art guided by a selected history of contemporary philosophy and art theory. The course will survey artistic movements such as modernism, postmodernism, conceptualism, minimalism, institutional critique, performance, relational aesthetics, and social practice, and will examine critical approaches such as formalism, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, deconstruction, new materialism, and object-oriented ontology.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research In this course, students can expect to spend approximately 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.