ARTH-433 American Art: Civil Rights to Social Justice (3)

Examines the relationship between American art and politics from the 1960s to today. Lectures and assignments explore how artists reimagined traditional understandings of art and why these formal experiments became a way to assert and question personal and social identities. From a variety of subject positions, the course considers the rise of performance art, video art, installation art, and other forms of new media. Crosslist: ARTH-633. Prerequisite: ARTH-105 and ARTH-210.