ART-342 Modern Art After 1940 3 credits
Prerequisites: Some art history or upper level humanities or social science course is recommended.
The course will cover the history of western art from the rise of New York as a new art-world capital to the more globally dispersed art-world of recent years. Some movements and developments to be considered are: Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Earthworks, Conceptual Art, Feminist Art, Performance Art, Video Art, Installation Art, and developments generally lumped under the rubric of Post-modernism.