ARTH 4420 - Modern Art and After: 1940's-1980's

The class examines a range of American and European art from the 1940s to the 1980s. Lectures and readings cover the periods major movements - including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Process and Performance Art - as well as the critical debates over modernism, mass culture, gender and sexuality, and the nature of artistic production.