Global Contemporary Art
IntermediateGlobal contemporary art from 1980 to the present. Installation art, performance, new media, postmodernism, identity politics, globalization and biennials, relational aesthetics, social practice, digital and AI art, decolonial perspectives, and environmental art.
Artists operate across borders challenging Western-centric art histories.
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- •Analyze postmodern strategies of appropriation and critique
- •Evaluate installation and performance art as expanded media
- •Assess globalization impact on contemporary art practices
- •Examine social practice and activist art movements
- •Compare decolonial and environmental art approaches
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Books
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
by Julian Stallabrass
Art Since 1900
by Hal Foster et al.
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