A survey of modern and contemporary art of the postwar period until 1980 in Western Europe, North America, Latin America and Japan. The revisiting and development of earlier avant-garde approaches to philosophical, gestural, formalist and existentialist abstraction along with the recycling of discarded materials and imagery linked to popular culture will be considered. New approaches to artists' performance, film, video, as well as language and publication-based art are examined, as are expansive engagements with architectural space, the landscape and environment. Critical works focussing on counter-cultural perspectives, feminism and the institutional strictures of the art world are dealt with.
A survey of modern and contemporary art of the postwar period until 1980 in Western Europe, North America, Latin America and Japan. The revisiting and development of earlier avant-garde approaches to philosophical, gestural, formalist and existentialist abstraction along with the recycling of discarded materials and imagery linked to popular culture will be considered. New approaches to artists' performance, film, video, as well as language and publication-based art are examined, as are expansive engagements with architectural space, the landscape and environment. Critical works focussing on counter-cultural perspectives, feminism and the institutional strictures of the art world are dealt with.
