ART 204: Contemporary Art History

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Class Program

Art

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Meets Degree Requirements For

Diversity,

Humanities

Description

An introduction to contemporary art history and the concerns of artists generally from the 1970s to the present. Will include discussion of artists who have been historically excluded, overlooked, or marginalized from major academic art history traditions.

Course Learning Outcomes

Recognize and attribute the characteristics of contemporary art and the concerns of artists generally from the 1970s to the present.

Program Learning Outcomes

Acquire an enhanced understanding of artists, art, and design.
Gain improved visual literacy.
Be more familiar with the history and traditions of the arts

Seek knowledge, information, and diverse viewpoints by studying art and art making processes by people from different cultures and time periods in history.

Program Learning Outcomes

Acquire an enhanced understanding of artists, art, and design.
Understand the tools and techniques used by artists to create art.
Be more familiar with the history and traditions of the arts

Explore how race, class, gender, and other categories of demographic/identity differences intersect with one another and how these dynamics appear in and affect works of visual art and the broader art world.
(Identity Development and Intersectionality)

Program Learning Outcomes

Acquire an enhanced understanding of artists, art, and design.
Be more familiar with the history and traditions of the arts

Express knowledge of the systemic nature of discrimination that has been directed toward people of diverse backgrounds and orientations in the art world.
(Systemic Discrimination and Oppression)

Program Learning Outcomes

Acquire an enhanced understanding of artists, art, and design.
Be more familiar with the history and traditions of the arts

Self-reflect regarding one’s personal identities and biases though synthesizing and applying learning about other artists of varying backgrounds and values.
(Self-reflection of Personal Identities and Bias)

Program Learning Outcomes

Acquire an enhanced understanding of artists, art, and design.
Gain improved visual literacy.

Core Topics

Visual literacy and understanding of art
Formal elements of art and principles of design
Fine arts media in contemporary art
- 2D media: Drawing, painting, printmaking
- 3D media: Sculpture, installation
- Time-based and new media
Art, artists, and themes from the 1970s to the present.
Historical context for contemporary art
Individual and cultural identity and diversity in art, including discussion of artists who have been historically excluded, overlooked, or marginalized from major academic art history traditions.