An overview of a variety of themes and approaches in recent global art practices from the 1980s to the present. Issues include: the legacy of important movements like abstraction, conceptual art, performance and land art; the formation of global modernity and its entanglements with colonialism; the role of centres and peripheries in the history of contemporary art. The course will also explore how contemporary art practices have reinterpreted and expanded painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as performance, video, installation, and new media.
An overview of a variety of themes and approaches in recent global art practices from the 1980s to the present. Issues include: the legacy of important movements like abstraction, conceptual art, performance and land art; the formation of global modernity and its entanglements with colonialism; the role of centres and peripheries in the history of contemporary art. The course will also explore how contemporary art practices have reinterpreted and expanded painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as performance, video, installation, and new media.
