Art since 1960

lhart2350  2020-2021  Louvain-la-Neuve

Art since 1960
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information below is subject to change, in particular that concerning the teaching mode (presential, distance or in a comodal or hybrid format).
5 credits
15.0 h
Q1

This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2020-2021
Teacher(s)
Streitberger Alexander;
Language
French
Main themes
This class discusses specific trends and issues within contemporary visual art since the 1960s. Based on case studies, it provides and encourages the close analysis of visual artworks within their historical, theoretical and social contexts.
The themes, which may vary from year to year, include, for example, intermediality as the fusion of different artistic genre and media, the place of the artist and his work within today's society, questions of spectatorship.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 The course will deepen the knowledge about the production and the aesthetic concepts in contemporary art.
It is the aim of the seminar that the student develops a critical sense and analytical methods as well as the ability to deal with a specific subject in contemporary art.
 
Content
This year, the class will discuss the art and the discourse of 'Postmodernism'.
Based on the reading of seminal texts (Jencks, Krauss, Crimp, Owens, Jameson) and a series of case studies, historical and historiographical questions are addressed in order to provide a deep understanding of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism and the place of artistic production and art theory in the second half of the 20th century.
Teaching methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Talks will be given by the teacher + papers by students.
 
Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Oral presentation and written paper.
Other information
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Online resources
ppt + texts on iCampus
Bibliography
Hal Foster, (sous la dir. de), Postmodern Culture, London, Pluto Press, 1985.
Charles Harrison & Paul Wood (sous la dir. de), Art en Théorie 1900 ' 1990, Paris, Hazan, 1997 : Idées du postmodernisme (Lyotard, Kristeva, Baudrillard, Owens, Hal Foster, Sherrie Levine, Barbara Kruger, Frederic Jameson, Edward Said).
Fredric Jameson, Le postmodernisme ou La logique culturelle du capitalisme tardif ; traduit de l'américain par Florence Nevoltry (Postmodernism or The cultural logic of late capitalism), Paris : Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 2007.
Brian Wallis (sous la dir. de), Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation, New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984.
Faculty or entity
ARKE


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : French as a Foreign Language

Master [60] in History of Art and Archaeology : General

Master [120] in History of Art and Archaeology: Musicology

Master [120] in History of Art and Archaeology : General

Master [120] in Philosophy