Art History 256 - The Art of the 1980s

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

This course serves as a multidisciplinary introduction to that most maligned of art decades, the 1980s. While the prevalent iconic documents of the time ( Dallas, Miami Vice, Wall Street, the Brat Pack) dependably reemerge in the realm of popular culture, the serious art practices from this decade are less well known. The class looks at work by seminal painters, sculptors, and collectives from the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Africa-e.g., Schnabel, Sherman, Gonzalez-Torres, Polke, Leirner, Watts, Group Material-through the multivalent lenses of such intellectual movements as postmodernism, appropriation, deconstruction, and liberation theology. Contentious and/or momentous exhibitions ( Magiciens de la terre and Primitivism in 20th-Century Art) and the attendant rise of the curator-as-celebrity are also evaluated.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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