First-Year Seminar: What's New? Contemporary Art in St. Louis and Beyond

This course will introduce a broad range of practices within the field of contemporary art (i.e., art of the last two to three decades), paying particular attention to museum collections and exhibitions in St. Louis at the Kemper Art Museum, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. Works in both new and traditional media will be discussed and will range from photography and sculpture to installation, performance, film, and mixed media. Readings will include artist statements, theoretical texts, art criticism, and art historical essays. Students with little or no background in art history are encouraged to register. Class meetings will be complemented by local field trips and visits to the studios of local artists.
Course Attributes: FA AH; EN H; FYS; BU Hum; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM

First-Year Seminar: What's New? Contemporary Art in St. Louis and Beyond

ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1075

Section 01