From Modern To PostModern Art

AY2019/2020 Semester 1

This course is designed for students who?ve already taken foundational Art History courses and chronologically follows DD3005 Survey of Modern Art 1900-1945. In this course you will be introduced to the moment of transformation from modern to contemporary art. It?s intended as a historical and conceptual framework for the development of critical thinking and visual analysis regarding today?s art practice. You will be introduced to a series of art forms and ideas, which still pervade the contemporary, 21st century global art world. You will examine the cultural and socio- political contexts through which these art forms and ways of thinking emerged. The analysis of these artistic contexts is essential for the understanding of a number of parallel situations in contemporary Southeast Asian art and will provide a strong knowledge-base for taking further Art History modules that focus on the contemporary.