ART 295-01 - Special Topic: Art and Anti-Art Since 1980

4 credits (Spring)

The course explores Postmodernism in the 1980s to its aftermath(s) in contemporary art around the world. We will attend closely to trends that affirm, challenge, and/or reject the significance of aesthetic experience. Readings range from contemporary criticism to historical analysis, as well as from formalist to semiotic, deconstructive, feminist, Marxist, queer, and postcolonial theory.

Prerequisite: ART 103.
Instructor: Anger