ART 334 - Gaps:Visual Art in Cold War Culture

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. Since Plato made his notoriously damning pronouncements concerning the duplicity of art and artists in his Republic, art's relationship with deception and illusion has been considered to various degrees both inherent and insidious. It is within this tradition that our survey of artistic production in U.S. culture following World War II is situated. The objects we will examine were created during a period marked by numerous gaps manifested most famously in missiles, generations, technology, and credibility itself. Moreover, during a moment of exponential growth in mass media and dematerialized, electronic forms of communication-an era filled with both hope and distrust for the regulating and economizing powers of technology and bureaucratization-the gap widened between seeing and believing. This course will explore the various ways in which the visual arts engaged within the discourse of gaps in culture between 1945 and 1975, paying special attention to how the gaps themselves become sites for signification within the historical network of objects, texts, and events in which they emerged. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor. Lecture-conference. Not offered 2009-1

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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