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Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art
A Six-Part Course
The Contemporary Museum is offering a six-part course that will explore radical changes that have taken place in the visual arts during the last 50 years, starting with major developments in the 1960s and connecting them to the art of today. It will include lectures followed by discussions focused on readings provided to participants.
Whereas painting and sculpture served primarily as mediums for ambitious art in the 1940s and 1950s, art since then has taken the forms of carvings in the earth, cuttings into architecture, slide projections, stacks of paper, and an array of photographic and reproductive techniques. How to account for these changes? In this course we will examine selected topics in recent art in the context of seminal art historical, theoretical, and critical debates. Among the topics addressed are serialism and gravity in art, art and the environment, feminist interventions, conceptual art and photography, critiques of the museum in art, art into architecture, and constructions of subjectivity in a global society.
The course is not a survey, but instead focuses on particular topical issues and problems that elucidate changes that affect the present. No prior art history training is required. The course is open to all art enthusiasts with an intellectual curiosity about contemporary art and its history. In addition to lectures presented by the instructors, we will read and discuss art historical and critical texts written by many of the major thinkers of our time.
- Dates: Tuesday evenings, January 26-March 9, 2010
(No class on Feb. 16)
- Time: 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
- Place: Peabody Court Hotel; Room TBA
- Fee: $125 for Contemporary Museum members
$160 for non-members (includes a one-year discounted
membership to the Museum.)
Course Instructors: Virginia Adams and Robert Haywood
Virginia K. Adams teaches modern and contemporary art history at Maryland Institute College of Art. She has a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland, College Park, and has taught art history at that University and at Loyola University in Maryland. Her research has focused on the theoretical connections among painting, photography and film in the postmodern period and, particularly, on the art of Jeff Wall and Gerhard Richter.
Robert E. Haywood is the Deputy Director of the Contemporary Museum. He has a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art history from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and has taught at a number of universities, including College of William and Mary, Hunter College, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published essays on Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Gober and others and curated a number of exhibitions, including "Lorna Simpson: Race, Gender, Photography."
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