Contemporary Art, 1989-Present

Catalog description

This course examines the range of practices, forms, and institutions that have come to characterize contemporary art since the end of the Cold War. Global in scope, the course considers the extensive network that constitutes the contemporary art world and examines the nodes in that network where the complications and contradictions endemic to it are most intense. Fulfills post-1800 requirement for Art History major. Prerequisite: any 100- or 200-level course in Art History.