This course explores contemporary art's evolving theories, contexts, and practices within a global framework. Through critical readings, case studies, and discussions, students will engage with key thinkers, movements, and concepts shaping the contemporary art world.
Curriculum syllabus :
- Introduction to Contemporary Art Theories
- Arthur Danto and the Concept of "Indiscernibility"
- Relational Aesthetics and Its Critique
- Hito Steyerl and the Role of the Image in Digital Capitalism
- Archival Turn in Contemporary Art
- Futurism and Science Fiction in Contemporary Art
- The Global South: Art and Curating Beyond the West
- Diaspora and Migration in Contemporary Art
- Gender in Contemporary Art
- The Nonhuman Turn in Contemporary Art
- Cold War in Contemporary Art
- Climate Change, Ecology, Contemporary Art
- Gallery Visit
Indicative references :
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Alpesh Kantilal Patel, 2017, Productive failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian Art Histories (Manchester University Press).
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Arthur Danto, 2014, After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History (Princeton University Press).
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Boris Groys, 2013, Art Power (The MIT Press).
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Edward Lucie-Smith, 2020, Latin American Art Since 1900 (Thames & Hudson).
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Gras, M., Harris, J., & Makhoul, B. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Art in Global Asia (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003285298
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Hal Foster, “An Archival Impulse” October 110 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 3-22.
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Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin, 2015, Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments, and Epistemologies (Open Humanities Pr).
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Hito Steyerl, 2009, “In Defense of the Poor Image” e-flux Journal, issue 10.
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Kodwo Eshun, “Further Considerations on Afrofuturism” The New Centennial Review 3, 2, globalicities: possibilities of the globe (Summer 2003).
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Mark Fisher, 2017, The Weird and the Eerie (Repeater).
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Okwui Enwezor, 2008, “The Politics of Spectacle: The Gaze of the African Artist” 7th Gwangju Biennale catalogue.
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Terry Smith, 2009, What is Contemporary Art? (University of Chicago Press).