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 111-424 Contemporary Art (Art in the USA 1970-1990)

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 4th year

Coordinator

Chris McAuliffe

Contact

One 2-hour seminar per week, and occasional lectures

Subject Description

The development of postmodernist practices in art and criticism in the USA.

Assessment

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • Foster H (ed), The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Bay Press Port Townsend 1983.
  • Foster H, Recodings. Bay Press Seattle 1985.
  • Harvey D T, he Condition of Postmodernity. Basil Blackwell London 1989.
  • Wallis B, Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. Godine Boston 1984.
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