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This class covers the paradigm shift from modernity to contemporary culture through an analysis of these general and closely interrelated themes; your faculty will select which they emphasize, but all of these should be familiar to you when you complete this class:
Contemporary art, design, and media involve multi-dimensional social and artistic shifts taking us from “late modern” society into the so-called “post-modern” age. The class covers years beginning after World War II, marked by society-altering ideas and events that radically change how we view creatives, art, design, entertainment, technology, race, gender, and identity in a global context.
We will learn what these terms mean, why they're important to working artists/designers, and how ideas and events from the 1960s up through the current day impact fields from fine art to digital media to fashion and graphic design. Conversely, we look at how art and design work to create who we are and how we think.
We look at the global impact of the spread of TV, video, computers, the internet, the civil rights movements, including #Blacklivesmatter and BIPOC initiatives, gender rights revolutions, including the feminist movements, LGBTQ+ culture, and various other multi-cultural and counter-cultural perspectives like Latinx and Asian art movements.
We study how global contemporary art and design are impacted by legacies of European ethnocentrism and how multi-disciplinary contemporary art fields recognize diverse subject positions to both reflect and challenge Western white colonial and patriarchal power.
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