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Welcome to 

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Hello.

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� You and I and 15 new friends«

� Mon/Wed 9:00-11:30 Tuesdays: Field Trips

� University College London

Who? When? Where?

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About Art 21: Art in the 21st Century

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Okay

Contemporary

Art

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What?Contemporary Art (the past 25 years)

* a diverse range of artists who have succeeded

in giving memorable substance to creative

vision

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Why? to engage actively in your pursuit

of fresh knowledge*to arouse our curiosity, delight our senses, evoke our emotions,

and provoke questions and debate

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How? Thematically

*By looking at themes, we focus on the meaningof a work of art examined as a whole, including

the impact that materials, techniques, form, andsubject matter makes on content

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ANote about Subject Matter

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What, Why, and How

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Week 1Monday

June 27 THE BRITISH ART SCENE:WhatsWhat

An introduction and a broad map for studying contemporary

art in London; outline of historical background tocontemporary art.

Required Reading:

Julian Stallabrass, A Very Short Guide to Contemporary Art .

Michael Glover, The Tate Takes Off, Art News, April, 200, pp.

24-28.

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 Julian Stallabrass

Senior Lecturer in Art History at 

the Courtauld Institute of Art inLondon.

author of several books on art,

including the highly controversial 

High Art Lite (1999), and is a frequent contributor to

 publications including the Evening

Standard and the New Statesman

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� The artworld

expands

� Multi-media

� Globalism

� Commercialism

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The Art World Expands

Contemporary 

art is

rich, diverseand 

unpredictable

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death

in the Mind of Someone Living, 1992, Tiger shark, glass, steel, 5%

formaldehyde solution, 213 cm × 518 cm (84 in × 204 in), Metropolitan

Museum of Art, New York City

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Rachel

Whiteread,

House, 1993

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Jenny Saville, Prop,

1990s

O i f Hi d A Hi

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Demographics

Overview of History and Art History

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The Pluralistic Seventies

Conceptual art

Performance Art

Feminist Art

Process Art

Multiculturalism

Earth Art

PhotorealismNew Image

Neo-Expressionism

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1970s Pluralism

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Art Dematerialized

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 Art Historical

Conventions

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Earth  Art

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Post-modernism

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Modernism

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Formalism

 Art for Art ¶  s Sake

Clive Bell 

 Roger Fry

Clement Greenberg Mark Rothko, 1950s

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 Andy Warhol,

M uhammed Ali , 1977

Alt ti

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Betye Saar, The Liberation of 

 Aunt Jemima. 1972.

 Alternatives

toModernism

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Judy Chicago, The

Dinner Party , 1974-

79

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Old  Art History:

�Connoisseurship

� Quality

�Style

�Genius

:

New  Art History:

�Ideology

�Patriarchy

�Class

�Gender �Race

Postmodernism

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Film and Video

 Ant Farm, M edia Burn, 1972

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Keith Haring

Jean-Michel

Basquiat

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Postmodern Theory

Images as social

constructs

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Gender and

Postmodernism

Cindy Sherman,

Untitled, 1978

Authorship

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 Authorship

and  Art

Jeff Koons, Rabitt, 1987

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Postmodernism challenged some of the

most basic ideas of modern art:

Originality,

 Authorship,

and Cultural Progression

The Proliferation

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The Proliferation

of Media

F ax machines

CD Players

The F irst laptop

Cordless phones

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Media

Theory

How culture

comes to us--

TV, VCRs,

WWW«

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P M ( t d i ) T

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PoMo (postmodernism) Terms

Appropriation (taking someone else¶s image as your own)

Deconstruction (breaking down the meaning of representation,

often by

recontextualizing it)

Simulation (representing as real something that doesn¶t exist in

the world)

 All these terms challenge the adage that in

a media-saturated world, it¶s the look that 

counts.

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In 1980 a new record was set when Jasper Johns Three F lags

was Sold to the Whitney for 1 Million.

The most paid for a work of art by a living artist

R d P i f Li i A ti t

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Record Price for a Living  Artist

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Jenny Holzer, Protect me from What I Want , 1983-85

Mr President Tear Down

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Mr. President, Tear Down

This Painting

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Sky Light, 1973 by Alma Thomas

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Black Like Me #2, 1992 by Glen Lignon

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Ed Ruscha, I Think I¶ ll 1983,

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Nice, 1954 by Nicolas De Stael

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The Bow , Edgar Degas, 1890

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Tate Britain

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Tate Britain

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Rooms 10-17:British Art

1960-2010

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Tate Modern

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Tate Modern

The Tate Modern - the world's

biggest modern art gallery, in a

beautiful building overlooking St 

Paul's Cathedral 

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Michael Craig-Martin in collaboration

with with Herzog & de Meuron, Swiss

Light, 1999

Tate Modern

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Tate Modern

 Anti-

evolutionary 

approach

Using 4

broad themes

to invite

comparisons

 from

different 

 periodsGiorgio de Chirico , The

Uncertainty of the Poet 1913

, Oil on canvas support: 1060 x 

940 mm frame: 1232 x 1125 x 73

mm

Jannis Kounellis Untitled 1979,

Charcoal, paper, arrows and stuffed

birds

displayed: 3600 x 5000 mm

installation

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 At the heart 

of each wing

is a large

central display, or 

'hub', which

 focuses on

one of the

 pivotal 

moments of 

twentieth-

century art 

history.

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Assignment 1

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Assignment 1

Tate Modern Object

Analysis

� Due Wednesday

June 29th

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� 9AM Meet at Ramsey Hall Steps

Goodge St Station (on Tottenham Court Rd)

Take Northern line to Embankement

Take Circle Line to Victoria Station

At Victoria go uo up to Turnimus Placetoward Wilton Rd

Walk towards the River

Turn right on Wilton Rd

Turn Left on Neathouse Place

Turn Slight Right on Walkway Proceed Southeast

Turn Left on Milbank

Tates Britain and Modern