AHST 3318.001: Contemporary Art and Architecture I – UT Dallas

Course Syllabus (Word Doc)

Mid-Term Exam Review (Word Doc)

Writing Tips (Word Doc)

Power Point Presentations:

1. Contemporary Art and Architecture / The Duchamp Effect: Neo-Dada, Collage, Combines and Assemblages
2. British Pop! The Independent Group
3. The Irony and Ecstasy of Mass Consumerism
4. American Pop! and Superrealism: The Irony and Ecstasy of Mass Consumerism
5. French Pop! Nouveau Réalisme
6. Art, Architecture and Revolution in Paris:Lettrisme, the Situationist International and May 1968
7. Bodies in Space: Fluxus, Art, and Anarchy
8. Bodies in Space: Happenings and Protest
9. Post-Painterly Abstraction and Minimalism
10. Minimalism and the Death of the Author
11. Conceptualism: Language and the Sign
12. Conceptualism: Language and Arte Povera
13. Gender and Sexuality in the 1970s
14. Gender and Sexuality in the 1980s
15. Postmodernism: Pictures and Simulations
16. Postmodernism: Neo-Expressionism and Graffiti
17. Postmodernism: Signage, Urbanism, and Space
18. Deconstruction in Art and Architecture
19. British Art in the 1990s

Hand Outs (as Word Docs):

1. The Duchamp Effect: Neo-Dada, Collage, Combines and Assemblages
2. British Pop! The Independent Group
3. American Pop! The Irony and Ecstasy of Mass Consumerism
4. American Pop! The Irony and Ecstasy of Mass Consumerism and Superrealism
5. French Pop! Nouveau Réalisme
6. Art, Architecture and Revolution in Paris: Lettrisme, the Situationist International and May 1968
7. Bodies in Space: Fluxus, Art, and Anarchy
8. Bodies in Space: Happenings and Protest
9. Post-Painterly Abstraction and Minimalism
10. Minimalism and the Death of the Author
11. Conceptualism: Language and the Sign
12. Conceptualism: Language and Arte Povera
13. Gender and Sexuality in the 1970s
14. Gender and Sexuality in the 1980s
15. Postmodernism: Pictures and Simulations
16. Postmodernism: Neo-Expressionism and Graffiti
17. Postmodernism: Signage, Urbanism, and Space
18. Deconstruction in Art and Architecture
19. Performance Art and Video
20. British Art in the 1990s
21. The Death Drive of Painting and Painting in the New Millennium