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Nov 23, 2024
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ARTH 419 - Themes in Contemporary Art 3 hours
This seminar explores and critiques artists from the late 1970s to the present. It investigates how politics, social issues, critical theories, and technology have influenced the art world, which has become increasingly pluralistic and global. Through a sequence of themes, the class confronts issues of race, gender, identity, appropriation, trauma, and memory through the artwork and particular artists. The course also considers how contemporary art has become increasingly activist, so that contemporary art-making is becoming known as “social practice,” in which artists try to solve social, racial, economic, and environmental problems through or with their art. Non-art or non-art-history majors or minors may enroll but should seek the consent of the instructor prior to enrollment. All art and art history majors and minors should only take this course after most other art history requirements have been completed. Offered every fall semester.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 , either ARTH 191 or ARTH 250 , and junior or senior standing; or consent of the instructor.
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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