Approaches to Contemporary Art
4:10pm–6:00pm
SCHERMERHORN HALL SCH 934
Morningside
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Description
This course examines the critical approaches to contemporary art from the 1970s to the present. It will address a range of historical and theoretical issues around the notion of the contemporary (e.g. globalization, participation, relational art, ambivalence, immaterial labor) as it has developed in the era after the postmodernism of the 1970s and 1980s
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- 4 credits
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