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Understanding Contemporary Art: Pollock, de Kooning, Warhol, and Their Aftermath (ARTH 220)
The gestural abstraction of Jackson Pollock, the outrageous portrayals of women by Willem de Kooning, and the popular culture focus of Andy Warhol heralded radical shifts in subject matter, image appearance, conceptual orientation, and the way art was produced in the 1950s and ’60s. Not only did this art signal a sweeping challenge to artistic conventions, but also it unleashed a flood of new ideas and alternative modes of creativity. This course will explore the key precedents of the postwar era and the new artistic currents that followed on into the 21st century. The focus will be on the embrace of minimalist, conceptualist, feminist, deconstructivist, and mass-media aesthetics. Featured artists will include: Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Eva Hesse, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Sol LeWitt, John Baldessari, Robert Smithson, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, and Kara Walker.
Class lectures and discussions will be complemented by two museum field trips. The exact dates and times will be discussed on the first night of class. Students should expect to pay a nominal entrance fee.
Sidra Stich
Museum Curator; Director of art-SITES
Sidra Stich received a PhD in art history from UC Berkeley and has taught at Washington University, UC Berkeley, Mills College, and the University of San Francisco. She has also held positions as chief curator at the Berkeley Art Museum, Distinguished Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution, Fellow at the Research Institute of the National Gallery, and Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She has authored guidebooks on contemporary art and architecture for France, Britain, and Ireland, London, northern Italy, Paris, Spain, and San Francisco.
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Course Details
Tuesdays
7:00 - 8:50 pm
10 weeks
Sept 23 - Dec 2
2 units $405
Limit: 40
Drop by: Oct 6
(No class on November 25)
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