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ONLINE COURSE WITH LUIZ FLAVIO
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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LUIZ FLAVIO
Luiz Flavio taught History of Art and Philosophy in undergraduate and graduate courses at UEMG and PUC Minas universities, as well as free courses and cultural trips with groups to dozens of cities around the world.
ABOUT THE COURSE
Richly illustrated, with images and small texts, in addition to bibliographical indications, the History of Contemporary Art course will present in 24 hours a comprehensive overview of the main artistic manifestations that occurred from the Pop Art (1950s/60s) until the end of the 20th century.
And much more! All this over 48 30-minute lessons + bonus material,
totaling 24 hours of inspiring and didactic content.
THE CONTENT
Class 1 - Contemporary Art - The Counterculture in the Golden Years
Conceptual Introduction: Modernism, Postmodernism and Contemporary Art
New Directions: The Counterculture, Duchamp and the New Generation of American Artists
Robert Rauschenberg: Pioneer of Contemporary Art and Forerunner of Conceptual Art
Jasper Johns: Pioneer of Contemporary Art and Forerunner of Pop Art
Class 2 - Pop Art: The new figuration in the age of consumption
USA, 1960s: Pop Art and the American Way of Life: eroticization, trivialization and excess
“This is Tomorrow”: the emergence of Pop in England in the late 1950s
USA 60's: Pop Art and the American Way of Life: Eroticization, Banalization and Excess
Roy Lichtenstein: Expanding the Duchampian ready-made
Class 3 - Pop Art and Nouveau Réalisme: Grammar and Sociology of the Object
Pop Painting: James Rosenquist and Tom Wesselman
From Painting to Pop Sculpture: Robert Indiana and Claes Oldenburg
Nouveau Réalisme: the new perception of the real
From mundane reality to nirvana: Martial Raysse and Yves Klein
Lesson 4 - The Death of the Real: From Photorealism to Hyperrealism
Photorealism in Germany: the painting of Gerhard Richter
Chuck Close and Hyperrealism in the USA
Other American hyperrealists: Photography and simulacrum in the “society of the spectacle”
The reinvention of Hyperrealism in the art of the last decades
Class 5 - Minimal Art - Minimalism and the poetics of exclusion
Hard-Edge Abstraction: “Precise Boundary Abstraction” or Pre-Minimalism
Minimal Art: Abstraction, literalism and the search for minimal expression
Top minimalists: LeWitt, Judd, Flavin, Andre and Morris
Other minimalists (Agnes Martin, Fred Sandback and Robert Irwin)
Class 6 - Conceptual Art: “Art after philosophy”
Conceptual Art: art, philosophy, language and the Duchampian legacy
Analytical and tautological propositions (Art and Philosophy, Art and Language)
Beyond the “white cube”: Land Art (art, nature and ecology)
From the natural landscape to the “white cube”: Land Art, Earth Art or Earthworks
Class 7 - Conceptual Art II: “When attitudes become form”
Fluxus, happenings, actions and collectivity in the art of the 1960s/70s
Performance Art: Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Gilbert & George, etc.
Art and radicalism: Feminism and Body Art
Art, love and life: Marina Abramovic & Ulay
Class 8 - Neo-expressionist painting in Europe and the USA
The “New Savages” in Germany and the worldwide revival of painting in the 1980s
Anselm Kiefer: Art as History, Tragedy and Redemption
The Italian Transvanguard (Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, etc.)
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and American Graffiti
Class 9 - “After the end of art”: Post-Modernism of the 1980s
Postmodern theories: “post-production” (Nicolas Bourriaud), death of the author (Barthes), of originality (Rosalind Krauss) and of the real (Baudrillard)
Exhaustion: re-production, re-reading, citation and palinody
Jeff Koons: anti-aestheticism, simulacrum, trivialization and market criticism
Dissolution of “movements”, “transfiguration of the banal” and the “end of art” (Arthur Danto)
Class 10 - The identity crisis and other contemporary debates
Identity, otherness and sexuality: the art of Louise Bourgeois
Christian Boltanski: memory, fragmentation and ruins
The Art of Minorities: Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin and Felix Gonzalez Torres
The Feminism of Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer and the Guerrilla Girls
Class 11 - Installation and Site Specific: the “expanded field” of sculpture
From sculpture to installation and site specific: the evolution of three-dimensional art
Anish Kapoor: from materiality to sculptural monumentality
The critical potential of irony: Maurizio Cattelan and the new sculpture
Diversity and multiplicity of discourses: the “expanded field” of the end of the millennium
Class 12 - From Postmodernism to Globalization: the new cultural landscape
Advertising, money and power: YBA (Young British Artists), the new British art
Damien Hirst and the redefinition of the contemporary artist's status
Multiculturalism and Geopolitics: the “invasion” of Chinese art in the West
Provisional conclusions and notes for 21st century art
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You will see references to wonderful films and books on art in the course.
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