Art after 1945 – Modern and Postmodern Art (Bachelor’s Degree)

Pre-requisites: There are no prerequisites for enrolling the course. The attendance to lectures and group work is mandatory.

Course objectives: The goal of the course is to acquire students with theoretical and historical knowledge about the artistic forms and trends created after the World War II analyzed through major social, cultural, ideological and political processes of postwar Europe and United States.

Course description: The theoretical segment of the course includes: Euro-American art after 1945 (informal, abstract expressionism, painting actions, pop art, optical and kinetic art, new realism, post painting abstraction, the painting of colored field, minimalism, conceptual art, poor art, hyperrealism, postmodern phenomena. The course also includes manifestations of postwar modernism to be treated and interpreted from formal-linguistics’ point of view and stylistic determiners, as well as in the context of their social, ideological and/or political background. The forms of neo avant-garde will be interpreted as the final or cumulative phase of language radicalization of postwar modernism. The postmodern art will be analyzed in terms of chronological, ideological and methodological beliefs and determinations. The practical portion of the course will include the analysis of theoretical texts and pieces of art.

Learning Outcomes: After attending the course the student will be capable of interpreting and analyzing the fundamental theoretical and conceptual hypothesis and proposals about art movements I occurrences of postwar modernism and postmodernism.

Literature/Reading:

• Grupa autora, Posle 45, Umjetnost našeg vremena, Beograd-Zagreb-Ljubljana 1972, 13-104)
• Concepts of Modern Art, (revised and enlarged edition) ed. by N. Stangos, Penguin books, 1981; 1990 (poglavlja: Kinetic Art, Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art 212-273)
• E.Lucie-Smith, Movements in Art Since 1945, Penguin books, 1995 (poglavlja: Post Painterly Abstraction; Pop, Environments and Happenings, Arte Povera, Post Minimalism, 90-218)
• M.Kohler, Postmodernismus: povijesno-pojmovni pregled , Republika,10-12, Zagreb 1985
• Art in Theory 1900-1990, An Anthology of Changing Ideas, ed. by C.Harrison & P. Wood, Oxford/Cambridge 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996 (poglavlja: V, VI, VII, VIII )
• Wood,Frascina,Harris,Harrison, Modernism in Dispute, Art since the Forties, The Open University/Yale University, 1993
• G.C.Argan, Studije o modernoj umetnosti, Beograd 1982
• C.Greenberg, Ogledi o posleratnoj američkoj umetnosti, Novi Sad 1997
• L.Lippard, Pop art, Beograd 1967 ili eng. Penguin books, 1996
• R.L.Goldberg, Performance Art, from Futurism to present, revised, Penguin books, 1988
• D.Ashton, The New York School, a Cultural Reckoning, Penguin books, 1979
• Konceptualna umetnost, tematski broj, Polja 156, Novi Sad 1972
• Jameson, Postmodernizam ili kulturna logika poznog kapitalizma , Kulturni radnik, 3, 1985, 34-92
• E.Lucie Smith, Umjetnost danas, Zagreb 1978
• H.Kloc, Umetnost u XX veku, Svetovi, Novi Sad 1995