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NEW Modern Art History Course, ART AND PROTEST, Fall 2001
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Haywood)
Thu Sep 6 08:52:33 2001
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Professor Robert Haywood
History, Theory and Criticism
rhaywood@mit.edu
Department of Architecture, MIT
4.691, Fall 2001
Tues. and Thurs., 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Room 10-280
Art and Protest:
From Civil Rights to the AIDS Crisis
In this course we will probe and analyze primary texts and
works of art engaged with urgent problems of discrimination, social
injustice, corporate exploitation, State power, and militarism in the
United States and Europe. The Cold War and the civil rights movement
in the 1950s and 1960s sparked in large part other protest movements:
the student New Left, free speech, anti-Vietnam war marches, Black
Power, and the drive for equal rights for women, gays and lesbians.
In the sphere of postwar art, many of the aesthetic strategies extend
from earlier modernist experiments, such as the graphic designs of
the Russian Constructivists, whose works are among those that provide
important historical perspective on art and activism in recent years.
We will explore the major concerns and legacy of these activist
movements, how artists participated and responded, and consider the
promise and limits of social and political activism in Western
culture. We will also critically assess politically motivated art
works in light of the modernist quest for aesthetic autonomy. Among
the artists considered are Pablo Picasso, Jacob Lawrence, Andy
Warhol, Guerrilla Art Action, Joseph Beuys, Judy Chicago, Martha
Rosler, Hans Haacke, Daniel Buren, Yoko Ono, Situationist
International, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Gran Fury.
The course, designed for undergraduates without prior study
of modern art history but with a serious interest in the subject,
will combine lectures, class discussions, and collective analysis of
works of art. Graduate students are also welcome and will be
assigned additional readings and separate projects.
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Tues.
and Thurs., 9:30-11:00 a.m.</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Room
10-280</b></font><br>
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color="#000000"><i><b>Art and Protest:</b></i></font></div>
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color="#000000"><i><b>From Civil Rights to the AIDS
Crisis</b></i></font></div>
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</x-tab>In this course we will probe and analyze primary texts and
works of art engaged with urgent problems of discrimination, social
injustice, corporate exploitation, State power, and militarism in the
United States and Europe. The Cold War and the civil rights
movement in the 1950s and 1960s sparked in large part other protest
movements: the student New Left, free speech, anti-Vietnam war
marches, Black Power, and the drive for equal rights for women, gays
and lesbians. In the sphere of postwar art, many of the
aesthetic strategies extend from earlier modernist experiments, such
as the graphic designs of the Russian Constructivists, whose works are
among those that provide important historical perspective on art and
activism in recent years. We will explore the major
concerns and legacy of these activist movements, how artists
participated and responded, and consider the promise and limits of
social and political activism in Western culture. We will
also critically assess politically motivated art works in light of the
modernist quest for aesthetic autonomy. Among the artists
considered are Pablo Picasso, Jacob Lawrence, Andy Warhol, Guerrilla
Art Action, Joseph Beuys, Judy Chicago, Martha Rosler, Hans Haacke,
Daniel Buren, Yoko Ono, Situationist International, Krzysztof
Wodiczko, and Gran Fury. </font></div>
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</x-tab>The course, designed for undergraduates without prior study of
modern art history but with a serious interest in the subject, will
combine lectures, class discussions, and collective analysis of works
of art. Graduate students are also welcome and will be
assigned additional readings and separate projects.</font></div>
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