Fall 2018 & Spring 2019
Tuesdays 1:00pm - 4:00pm
This class can be taken as either a fall or spring stand-alone course or as a single year-long intensive study, since the teaching faculty and course material vary by semester. There is a dedicated seminar for graduate students. Standard art history learning goals, course objectives, and assessment practices apply.
Fall 2018: Faculty teaching the class are Delinda Collier (SAIC Scholars section), Nora Taylor (graduate section), Seth Kim-Cohen, and Mechtild Widrich
Select topics include:
The Vietnam War in US and Vietnamese Art
The Wall and Iron Curtain (a divided Germany)
Expanded Practices and Urban Activism
Steven Biko and Black Consciousness
1967 First World Festival of Negro Art
Chicago '68
Screenings: The Year of the Pig, The Act of Killing, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, Medium Cool
Spring 2019: Faculty teaching the class are David Raskin (graduate section), Jennifer D. Lee, Sampada Aranke, and Bess Williamson
Select readings and topics include:
cultural revolution in China and its (mis)interpretations
Black Power in the US and Africa
Hippie Modernism
Origins of Social Design
Dropouts and Cults
Monuments
Screenings: Easy Rider, 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)