POP ART AND POP CULTURE (AH3065)

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Aesthetic autonomy is the notion that culture is a sphere apart, with each art distinct, and it is a bad word for most of us raised on postmodernist interdisciplinarity. We tend to forget that autonomy is always provisional, always defined diacritically and situated politically, always semi. …” Hal Foster (2002) Pop Art and Pop Culture investigates the relationships between arts (painting, architecture, design, film, music…) and the mass media, with a particular focus on the 1960s. Rather than relying on practical distinctions between high and low, fine arts and applied arts, serious experiment versus entertaining commercial product, the course will consider the intersections and links between the most advanced artistic endeavors and the aesthetics of the commercial and corporate environment.

Code: 
AH3065
Name: 
POP ART AND POP CULTURE
Discipline: 
AH (Art History)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Classes and discussions are meant to sharpen students’ critical and analytical skills in the discipline of art history
  2. The final paper is intended to prepare students to a higher level of art historical research
  3. The material studied in class will offer the students the possibility to question the relationship of art to a tumultuous age (cold war, social and racial conflicts; technological race, sexual liberation, rise of the society of consumption, etc.)

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