MEDS 265 - Modern Art and the Mass Media: the New Public Sphere

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

(Same as ART 265 and URBS 265. When the public sphere was reset during the twentieth century by a new order of mass media, the place of art and artists in the new order needed to be claimed. The course studies the negotiations between modern art and the mass media (advertising, cinema, TV), in theory and in practice, during the years between the Great Depression and the liberation movements of the late 1960s–the foundation stones of our own contemporary culture. As a consequence, the physical spaces of culture would be reimagined and designed. Molly Nesbit.

Prerequisite(s): ART 105 or ART 106.

Two 75-minute periods and one film screening.

Course Format: CLS