ARTH 26609 /36609 - Abstraction

Institution:

University of Chicago

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Description:

PQ: Consent of instructor. Prior knowledge of art history required; prior knowledge of twentieth-century art recommended. Class limited to twenty students. This class centers around the different ways of understanding abstraction in the paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, and moving images produced in Western art in the course of the twentieth century. We examine the role of the notion of utopia, phenomenology, non-composition, decoration, identity, and reproductive media, among others. Artists include Lucio Fontana, Eva Hesse, Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky, Piet Mondrian, Blinky Palermo, Jackson Pollock, Hans Richter, and Sophie Taeuber. C. Mehring. Autumn.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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