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ART 152-01, Survey of Contemporary Art, Spring 2013
McCarthy, David
McCarthy, David
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Abstract
The objectives of the course are as follows: (1) to enhance student knowledge of the
major works, artists, and movements of art since 1940; (2) to integrate these works of art
within the broader social and intellectual history of the period; and (3) to help students
develop the skills of visual acuity.
Among the issues we will cover are the following: the development of modernism in
the United States after World War II; the effect of the Cold War on Western art; the
incorporation of mass culture into modern art; the revival of political art in the late 1960s; the
differences between modernism and postmodernism; the emergence of feminist strategies in
representation; the rejection of the art object, and of the culture industry; the return of history
painting in the early 1980s; the emergence of different voices in the art world in the past
generation; the return of beauty as a concern of art; and the development of global
perspectives and relational aesthetics in recent years.
Art 152 is a foundation course required of all majors and minors pursuing either art or
art history. There are no pre-requisites for this course. It satisfies the F3 and F5 requirements.
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This syllabus was submitted to the Rhodes College Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor.