Elaine O'Brien

Art 112/212 :: Contemporary Art

Great resources for contemporary art:

• Google Arts & Culture

• Art21 Artists' Index

 
Anjeleah Thao and Leonardo Drew after the artist's
lecture at the Manetti Shrem, UC Davis.
See Anjeleah's blog: Contemporary Art

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Course description:
After a background survey of the 1960s and 1970s, this course moves chronologically, elliptically, and thematically from 1980 to the present. You will become aware of how contemporary art appropriates every art tradition from every time and place, how it reinvents the past for current situations and global contexts as artists engage in countless ways with their lived experiences. Readings, assignments, and lectures are meant to shed light on what lies behind the aesthetic and anti-aesthetic choices artists make that shape the look of visual culture today.

Because contemporary art is made by every kind of person using every conceivable medium, because it is a product of our global information age, which is characterized by fast, continual flux and border crossing, it is more challenging and necessary to comprehend than any other art in history. Indeed, contemporary art is not “history” at all. It is of the present; these artists’ era is our era. Your education in contemporary art, therefore, can help you comprehend your own place in life and the history of art as it unfolds.

Art 112/212 Prerequisite: Art 1C, Art 109, or equivalent with instructor’s consent

NOTE: Attendance at one CSUS Festival of the Arts Art History Symposium lecture on Saturday, April 25 and the Visiting Artist Lecture on April 22 are required. Please clear your calendar.

Looted Art and Postcolonial Justice: Decolonizing the Art Museum
Saturday, April 25, 2019, 1-5 PM, Mendocino 1005

Visiting Artist Lecture by Therese Lahaie, April 22, place and time TBA