MEDS 364 - Seminar in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art

1 unit(s)

(Same as ART 364) The World Picture: The Shape of Change. It has been a while since the world appeared as it did to Heidegger—as a picture. What shape, then, does the world take? Or, is it better to turn George Kubler’s “Shape of Time” sideways and ask about the shape of change? The seminar studies the global condition of present day culture. That there continues to be no consensus on its definition enables us to explore the active critical problems as steps in a larger trajectory inherited from the utopian experiments of the 1970s and the use they made of materialism. These questions are examined through the work of various contemporary artists. Molly Nesbit.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.

One 2-hour period.

Not offered in 2019/20.

Course Format: CLS