August 26, 2011

1. Course Introduction: Introducing the Avant-Garde
2. Postmodern Strategies: The Canvas as an Arena: Jackson Pollock
3. The (Spiritual) Crisis of Abstract Expressionism: Mark Rothko
4. Clement Greenberg and Post-Painterly Abstraction
5. The Fully Present Object: Minimalism
6. Duchamp's Legacy: Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage
7. Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns
8. Art in an Age of Mass-Media: Andy Warhol
9. Conceptual Art: New Strategies for Meaning
10. Postmodern Strategies: Mixed Messages and Undecidability
11. Working in the Expanded Field: Site Construction
12. Working in the Expanded Field, Part 2: Marked Sites
13. Working in the Expanded Field, part 3: Axiomatic Structures
14. Contemporary Liturgies: Performance Art and Embodied Belief
15. Bodies of Knowledge: Performance Art and Social Space
16. Contemporary Laments: An Update on the Human Condition
17. What's Going on Today, part 1
18. What's Going on Today, part 2

Professor Jon Anderson explains conventions and schools of thought that have been prevalent in modern, postmodern, and other contemporary art. Anderson offers insight into the philosophy and meaning of various works and artists and challenges his audience to evaluate those meanings themselves.