Fine Arts · Boston College
This course examines developments in the art of Europe and the Americas from 1945 to roughly 1975. We will focus on major paradigms of this period: Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada and New Realism, Neo-concretism, Happenings, Pop, Minimalism and Post-minimalism, Arte povera, Fluxus, Conceptual Art, and Feminist strategies. Key questions include the following: How were notions of artistic skill--and of the artist's function--reimagined in the postwar period? How did artists intervene in the construction of identity, whether along the lines of nationality, race, class, gender, or sexuality? How
