AH 347 - Art Since 1945

3 Credit(s)

This course examines the principal artists, artistic movements, and radical changes that have helped shape American and European art since 1945. In addition to painting and sculpture, happenings, performance art, public art, installation art, and video and digital art are considered. The course examines Jackson Pollock and the emergence of abstract expressionism in the late 1940s and 50s, Andy Warhol and the pop artists of the 1960s, conceptual artists and Earth artists of the 1970s, the resurgence of Europe as a major art center during the 1980s, and the collapse of traditional artistic hierarchies during the 1990s. The course concludes with an examination of current key artists and themes such as cultural dislocation and gender.