ART 145 — Contemporary Art
This course provides a survey of periods, artworks, and architecture in Contemporary Art with an emphasis on content, context, and style. This course covers subject matter, iconography, patronage, artistic methods and influences, and social and cultural contexts of artworks and monuments within local and global cultures. This course explores themes of: personal and group identity; gender and sexual identity; national identity; political and social commentary; public funding of controversial art; representation, abstraction, and site-specific art and architecture, Appropriation and New Media, and global and local art movements collectively called Contemporary Art. (CSU/UC) (AA/AS-3, CSU-C1, IGETC-3A, Cal-GETC-3A)