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Histart 190F

ART IN EUROPE 1945-1975 (4 units) Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2-3:30 101 Moffit, CCN: 05583 Tom McDonough

An exploration of the visual arts in continental Europe during the three decades following the Second World War, a period marked by socially and culturally by postwar reconstruction, the rise of the Cold War, decolonization, and the advent of an Americanized consumer culture. Long eclipsed by the so-called triumph of American painting, European art at this time presents a rich variety of aesthetic and political responses to these new conditions, from the art brut of Dubuffet to the capitalist realism of Richter and Polke. Themes to be explored include: reactions to the historical traumas of war and genocide; the rediscovery and transformation of prewar avant-garde models; collective memory and amnesia in relation to colonial conflict; the critique of spectacle-culture. (Mo)

 

Letters in bold following individual upper division course descriptions cite the History of Art major breadth requirement fulfilled by the course.  (As=Asian, An=Ancient, Me=Medieval, R=Renaissance, B=Baroque, Mo=Modern.)

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