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Humanities Seminars Program Fall 2014 Postmodern Art and Its Discontents Professor Paul Ivey, School of Art [email protected] This ten week course examines the issues, artists, and theories surrounding the rise of Postmodernism in the visual arts from 1970 into the twenty-first century. We will explore the emergence of pluralism in the visual arts against a backdrop of the rise of the global economy as we explore the “crisis” of postmodern culture, which critiques ideas of history, progress, personal and cultural identities, and embraces irony and parody, pastiche, nostalgia, mass or “low” culture, and multiculturalism. In a chronological fashion, and framed by a discussion of mid-century artistic predecessors Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and Minimal Art, the class looks at the wide-ranging visual art practices that emerged in 1970s Conceptual Art, Performance, Feminist Art and identity politics, art activism and the Culture Wars, Appropriation Art, Neo-expressionism, Street Art, the Young British Artists, the Museum, and Festivalism. Week 1: October 6 Contexts and Setting the Stage: What is Postmodernism Abstract Expressionism Week 2: October 13 Cold War, Neo-Dada, Pop Art Week 3: October 20 Minimalism, Postminimalism, Earth Art Week 4: October 27 Conceptual Art and Performance: Chance, Happenings, Arte Povera, Fluxus Week 5: November 3 Video and Performance Week 6: November 10 Feminist Art and Identity Politics Week 7: November 17 Street Art, Neo-Expressionism, Appropriation Week 8: December 1 Art Activism and Culture Wars Week 9: December 8 Young British Artists (YBAs) Week 10: December 15 Festivalism and the Museum .

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