DR. MARIA ELENA BUSZEK
FINE4990/5990: Contemporary Art: 1960 to the Present
Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:15Pm, Arts Bldg. 186

COURSE DESCRIPTION: A lecture course for students involving viewing, reading and discussion of conventions of contemporary art including painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, design, installation, and multi-media arts.This course will survey the history of Western art from roughly 1960 to the present.  Since the course deals as much with history as with art, we will be exploring the different historical events, creative and technological developments, and theory/methodologies that inform the creation and analysis of the work presented in the class.

• Fall 2015: Contemporary Art syllabus

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Contemporary art in the news:

• NEW! Christo's Floating Piers in progress in Italy's Lake Iseo
• NEW! Denver MCA opens Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty
          Go to the MCA's Pretty/Dirty website
• NEW! African-American abstract painter Sam Gilliam returns to the spotlight
• New Yorkers on the power of the 9/11 Tribute in Light
• Frank Stella's will the the first single-artist retrospective at the new Whitney Museum
• Privatization of USPS buildings leaves WPA murals in limbo
• Banksy donates materials from Dismaland to a refugee camp in France
          Banksy opens 5-week installation Dismaland in abandonded UK resort
          The magic of Dismaland...BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!
• Art, Instagram and "the new conspicuous consumption"
• Artist collective recreates Adolf Loos' American Bar as a pop-up site in Los Angeles
• Mona Hatoum's Pompidou retrospective in pictures
• Q-and-A with art historian Katy Segal, on her show After Frankenthaler
• Shirin Neshat retrospective defies expectations
• Brooklyn Museum honors a folk-art homage to Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
• Yoko Ono finally gets MoMA retrospective--decades after her fake one!
• John Perreault laments the "six sins of Joan Mitchell" in the context of postwar American abstraction

Lecture links:

• NEW! Test your art endurance with Bruce Nauman's videos!
          Hennessy Youngman, on the other hand, is totally over Bruce Nauman...
• NEW! Lawrence Weiner wants to eff up your entire life...
• Watch the trailer for Kara Walker's film An Audience
• Super-8 (NSFW) footage documenting Vito Acconci's Seedbed
          (See MoMA's details on the document/performance)
• Watch Bruce Nauman do his unexcerpted thing for the length of a videotape (Wall Floor Positions, 1968)
• Watch excerpts from Nam Jun Paik's Global Groove broadcast
• Lawrence Weiner wants to eff up your whole life!
• Watch footage of Robert Morris and Carolee Schneemann performing Site
• Watch artist Judith Shimer's "Animated Theories of Clement Greenberg"!
• Listen to NPR feature on the Farm Security Administration's photo collection