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HA 375.101 Art of the
60s
This course addresses American art of the 1960s and its intersections with archaeology, dance, film, linguistics, philosophy, and music. Beginning with Andy Warhol's Pop art, which blurred lines between commodity culture and high art, we will consider the emptying of modernist notions of originality and expressiveness from art. Minimal art will lead us to consider factory fabrication of art, the removal of the sculptural base, and the phenomenological experience of the work in real space and time. In the course we will also confront the matter of "process" in art and criticism of the decade, which linked ideational and physical procedures in artmaking. Lucy Lippard's Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, and writings by artists Mel Bochner, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Yvonne Rainer, and Robert Smithson will constitute primary readings. Requirements for the course include one 6-8 page paper and a final exam. (Cost 2: WL: 2 .) (3 credits) (Paice, Kimberly) |