Contemporary Art History

AHST 3318-001 Fall 2013

 

Dr. Charissa N. Terranova
M-W 2:30-3:45 pm
AH2 1.204

Office Hours: Wednesday 4:00-6:45pm
Office Location: JO 3.920
terranova@utdallas.edu

 

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Class Presentations
 

1. Introduction

2. Wednesday August 28 - From Drip to Dance

3. Wednesday September 4 - From Drip to Dance

4. Monday September 9 - The Flatbed Picture Plane: American Pop!

5. Wednesday September 11 - The Flatbed Picture Plane: American Pop!

6. Monday September 16 - British Pop! The Independent Group

7. Wednesday September 18 - French Pop! Nouveau réalisme

8. Monday September 23 - The Splendid Playground of Japanese Art: The Gutai Group

9. Monday September 30 - John Cage, Fluxus, and Intermedi

10. Monday October 7 - Color Field Painting and Post-Painterly Abstraction

11. Wednesday October 9 - Painting and the Grid; Painting and Objecthood; Minimalism and Objecthood

12. Monday-Wednesday, October 14-16 - Kinetic Art; Op Art and New Tendencies; Entropy in Land Art

13. Wednesday, October 23 - California Light and Space Movement

14. Monday, November 4 - The Rise of the Digital Image in Art: The Bell Labs, A. Michael Noll, and E.A.T.

15. Monday November 11 - What is Conceptual Art? Dematerialization between Language and the Computer

16. November 18-20 - Identity Politics I: Gender and Sexuality in the 1970s & Identity Politics I: Gender and Sexuality in the 1980s

17. December 2-11 – Towards a Progressive Masculinity Conceptual Art, the Image, and Postmodernism: Pictures Generation