VES 108 / HAA 173 Stranger Than Fiction

This is an upper-level undergraduate art history/critical studies course about fact and fiction in visual art since 1960. It won't be a survey course, but you'll become familiar with a range of post-modern and contemporary art (and what the difference is between them) as you encounter some of the key artistic developments since the 1960s (e.g., conceptual art, globalization of the art world). The types of art we'll study include photography, film, video, installation art, net.art, and many varieties of performance. Sequenced assigments will develop skills for analyzing and interpreting these non-traditional forms of art, as the class unpacks art's modes of epistemic activity and debates their complex connections with the public politics of knowledge in the period up to and including our post-truth moment.