Art History 287 - CONVERGENT HIST:ART SINCE 1950

This course is a survey of contemporary art since 1950 that examines the dissolution of high art as a concept, and how media, from ceramics and textiles to photography, video and media art, came to contest that notion even as they aspired to it. In light of the convergence of discipline-specific histories and other cultural histories with modernism, this course also considers counter modernisms and the deconstruction and revision of Western art history. You will also be introduced to the global contemporary art world and begin to explore how art operates aesthetically, politically, emotionally, and intellectually. (E)