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May 17, 2025
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Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog
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ARH 521 - Global Postwar Art
This course has a two-fold goal: to explore the recent scholarship on postwar art across a spectrum of situated geopolitics; and to explore the year 1989 in global exhibition contexts. In the semester¿s first half, the primary texts¿Sonal Khullar, Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930-1990 (2015), Christine Ho, Drawing from Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People¿s Republic of China (2020), and Joshua Cohen, The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents (2020)¿are paired with a range of articles and book chapters written by more established scholars in the relevant subfields. As we will learn, the temporal demarcation of the year 1945 is not strictly observed in this representation of recent scholarship. In the semester¿s second half, the students will explore a case study of their choice¿the 3rd Havana Bienal (Havana, 1989), Les Magiciens de la Terre (Paris, 1989), The Other Story (London, 1989), and The Decades Show (New York, 1990)¿by conducting research of both primary and secondary literatures. Each of these exhibitions manifests a particular picturing of the global, allowing us to trace multiple swan songs of the global postwar period.
3 credits
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
Repeatable May be repeated for credit.
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