Post-War American Art: From Duchamp To Basquiat - AAA400347

• Title: Poválečné americké umění: od Duchampa k Basquiatovi
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2009
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Louis Armand, Ph.D.

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
This course offers a critical survey of developments in American Art from the post-WWII period until the present. Artists
treated include: Lee Krasner, Willem DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy
Twombly, Franz Kline, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat ?. Particular inattention
will be given to the role of the Black Mountain College and to the various ideologies of the artist as creator, engineer or
bricoleur.

MATERIAL (e.g.)
Hal Foster, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century
Rosalind Krauss and Yves-Alain Bois, Formless: A User?s Guide
Rober Hughes, The Shock of the New

Last update: UAAZNOJE (14.09.2009)