Description
[Contemporary] Postmodernism is less about style and more about strategies of making art. This course will begin by examining significant works of art from the late 1970s and early 1980s that counter aspects of modernism and embrace critiques of originality. Then we will study postmodern and contemporary artists who engage in a range of conceptual strategies that include simulation and appropriation, parody and performativity, the anti-aesthetic and anarchitecture, activism and deconstruction, and doubt and failure. Photography, video, painting, performance, bricolage, sculpture, installation art, and institutional critique will be discussed.