講義概要 /Course description |
This seminar focuses on Minimalism, an American contemporary art movement of the 1960s, to investigate how it opened up new horizons of aesthetic thought and experience from which developed a variety of movements such as Conceptual Art and Earth Works. Minimalism in other words functioned as a crucial turning point from Modernism to Postmodernism in the field of artistic theory/practice. We will analyze the aspects of this change by looking closely at the works of artists such as Donald Judd, Robert Morris, and Carl Andre while also investigating the reverberations of Minimalist aesthetics in other fields including contemporary dance and film. The artists’ own writings and recent art historical studies will be consulted accordingly. Students are required to have taken at least one of my 300-level courses to register in this course. |