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Offered:
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
This class is about encountering the art of your time.
In HAA 17K, you will learn why visual artists today have such a different range of choices than counterparts in other periods have had. You'll get answers to some big questions (what’s the difference between modern and contemporary?) and have debates about others (can it be good art if it’s not hard to make?). You’ll understand why you won't find an orderly series of movements and styles in contemporary art history, and you'll come to recognize an alternate structure: emergent constellations around issues that matter socially and artistically at once; productive conversations in visual, tactile, experiential form about problems like truth and misinformation; historical memory; race and racism; craft, relationships, and money.