New Trends in Visual Arts 2+1
Teacher: Kukla Krisztián
Aims:
The course introduces students to the reoccurring themes and practices in the interdisciplinary practice of contemporary visual arts. Moving beyond medium-based categories, the course is organized around key topics in contemporary art, the visual art of the present. It surveys a diverse range of issues that motivate artists and create content, keeping the focus on the creative practice of the artists and the process of the art world system.
Topics:
1. Introduction
2. Theories: Psychoanalysis; Social Contextualism, Formalism and structuralism; Post-structuralism and deconstruction
3. Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism
4. Social Realism & Regionalism, the Bauhaus & de Stijl,
5. Dada & Surrealism
6. American Modernism
7. Minimalism, Pop Art
8. Conceptual Art
9. Environmental Art
10. Feminist Art
11. Photography
12. Modern & Postmodern Architecture
13. Video, and Computer Art & New Media