Contemporary Art is a specialized survey of art produced after World War II. The first half of the course, from 1945 to 1989, will primarily focus on painting, sculpture, and photography produced in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Latin America during the Cold War. In the second half of the course, from the 1980s to the present, we will widen our view, in terms of geography and media, to consider the expanding definition of recent art produced in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas together. To this end, we will investigate the meaning of "postmodernism" as a theory, an aesthetic notion, a politics, and a periodization. In this course students will sharpen their abilities to read critically, to analyze cultural products such as artworks & exhibitions, and will expand their knowledge of art, theory, and global history since the end of WWII.

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