Art History 245 - Contemporary Art

This course traces the different paths of painting, sculpture, and photography in the United States and, less so, Western Europe since World War II. Initially, most of these paths traced a relationship with the crisis of modernism, but increasingly, they have taken on a different vitality, drawing energy from a wide variety of postmodern and postcolonial subjects and debates. Among the major movements: abstract expressionism, pop, minimalism, earthworks, new wave feminist art, happenings, performance, and more.