ARTH 4430 - Art Since 1960

The course explores the history of contemporary art from 1960 to the present. We discuss the major movements, aesthetic theories, and critical debates of art in the late 20th c. to gain a better understanding of the diversity of contemporary practices. Issues to be discussed include minimalism, conceptual art, institutional critique, feminist art, process and body art, posmodernism, abject art and globalism.