ART 145 History of Art - Contemporary (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
This course surveys contemporary art mediums, from modern origins through Post-Modern styles and issues, focusing on the historical, cultural, and physical contexts for production, appearance, and use of contemporary art worldwide.
Course Content
A. Modern and Post-Modern art leading into Contemporary Art
B. The processes and techniques for learning to examine and interpret major works of Contemporary Art
C. The work of diverse artists in the context of larger social, political, economic, and aesthetic issues
D. Issues such as the role of the museum today, censorship, and the impact of the internet on contemporary art-making
E. The works of important contemporary critics and theorists
Student Outcomes
1. Synthesize fundamental methods of visual thinking and criticism.
2. Analyze various artistic mediums and their relationship to subject, content, and function.
3. Examine style characteristics, style names, culture, content, and intent in order to explain their impact on perception and meaning.
4. Analyze how positionality and contributions of individual and various cross-cultural visual influences affect and influence examples of art from a global perspective of art history.
5. Analyze the role of significant visual elements and principles of design in a work of art.
6. Examine the impact of Eurocentrism and Western Bias on the history and development of art and the works of non-European, non-Western artists that challenge these biases.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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