Listed in: Art and the History of Art, as ARHA-412
Natasha Staller (Section 01)
Pop, Op, Color Field, Minimalism, Land Art, Conceptual Art, Performance Art, Fluxus. We will explore the dramatically different art forms and ideologies created during a decade marked by war, assassinations, and massive social change. We will consider how artists passionately engaged these events, as they radically re-imagined urgent challenges of their time.
Our texts will include: Thomas Crow, The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent; James Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties; Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World; Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique; and Tom Wolf, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. There will be films. It was a great moment for popular music: Our soundtrack will be constant, and ever changing.
There will be a research paper, with ongoing class presentations as it crystallizes; at least one field trip and, if there is interest (as in the past), a multi-media art-music-dance happening at the end of the semester.
Not open to first year year students. Preference to ARHA majors, and to a diversity of majors
Limited to 12 students. Spring Semester. Professor Staller.
How to handle overenrollment: Students will write about why they want to take the seminar; instructor will decide.
Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Emphasis on written work, close reading, visual analyses, group work, oral presentations, museum visits.
How to handle overenrollment: Students will write about why they want to take the seminar; instructor will decide.
Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Emphasis on written work, close reading, visual analyses, group work, oral presentations, museum visits.
Section 01
Tu 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM FAYE 217