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Academic Year 2005/2006

Art In Europe and America Since 1945
ARHA 251 FA

This course will consider the arts in Europe and the United States after 1945. We will be particularly concerned with the explorations of new possibilities for visual languages, with the criticism and theory that lay behind them and with the si(gh)ting of content in the work.

MAJOR READINGS

Michael Leja, REFRAMING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Robert Smithson, THE WRITINGS OF ROBERT SMITHSON
Frances Colpitt, MINIMAL ART
Hal Foster, THE ANTI-AESTHETIC
Howard Risatti, POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVES
Brian Wallis, BLASTED ALLEGORIES,
Craig Owens, BEYOND RECOGNITION

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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