A critical survey of major developments and movements in cultural theory and practice after WWII and the aftermath of the “death of the author” (Barthes). Topics to be addressed include the critique of avant-garde production; postmodernism and postindustrial society; institutional critique; ethnicity, gender and sexuality; art in/and the public sphere; new media aesthetics; postproduction and relational aesthetics; art and economics, among others.
Lectures
1. Introduction: Contemporary Art and Cultural Theory
2. Psychoanalysis & Ideology
3. Contemporary Art and Cultural Theory; Semiotics & Deconstruction
4. The New York School | Jackson Pollock
5. John Cage | Robert Rauschenberg | Jasper Johns
6. Clement Greenberg | Pop
7. Happenings | Performance
8. Minimalism | Conceptual Art | Robert Smithson
9. Postmodernism
10. Postcolonialism
11. Postproduction | Relational Aesthetics | The Archive | Thomas Hirschhorn | Pierre Huyghe | Tacita Dean
12. The Postmedium Condition| Christian Marclay | Sophie Calle | Ritkit Tiravanija
13. Art Inc. | New Media
14. Chinese Artists | Avatar
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