ARTS 361 - Boundary Consciousness: 1960s Art

Examines the “long” or the “global” 1960s and the ways in which many of its notable artists and thinkers made work that engaged with the plasticity and expansiveness of boundaries, both physical and immaterial, during a politically charged, transnationally connected moment in which many seemingly fixed and supposedly natural boundaries were tested and compromised. Engages with a range of artistic, political, and cultural boundary-formations and their breeches, drawing out connections between representation, interpretation, visibility, space, and power in select global case studies of 1960s art. Introduces new and emerging methodologies in the field, and engages with the challenges and the possibilities of writing art history from beyond installed categories of knowledge. Also gives students a methodological context for historicizing the discipline itself, which came of age in the 1960s in the academy and still largely understands fields of artistic production as territorially bound to nation-states and ethnic regionalisms.

Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: None
Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing
Core Component: None

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