Paris, France - Course Descriptions - Contemporary Art in France since 1950

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This course will aim at giving to students the methodological tools, knowledge and concepts to recognize understand and analyze the most important forms and trends of contemporary art.  It will mainly focus on France from the fifties until today, with a theoretical and visual approach.  The course will be divided between lectures and oral presentations which will be conducted by the students, individually or in groups. 

The evaluation will be based on these presentations, on dissertations about a general problematic in relation to the issue of contemporary art, and on participation.  Depending on artistic events shown during the time period of the course, the possibility to organize visits of exhibitions and museums will be considered.

The course will be ordered, both chronologically and thematically, as follows:

·         Prologue: Art at the Beginning of the 20^th Century. Two examples: Impressionism and Abstract Art.

·         The 50’s: Pop Art in USA and UK.

·         The Object in France during the 60’s: New Realism.

·         The 60’s in Europe: Fluxus.

·         Narrative Figuration in France: the “Salon de la Jeune Peinture”.

·         The 60’s in France: BMPT and Supports/Surfaces.

·         The 70’s and the Internationalization: Minimal Art and Conceptual Art.

·         The 80’s and the Postmodern: Performance and Installation Art.

·         The 90’s: Video and Photography.

·         90’s in Europe: Relational Aesthetics.

·         Art in France since 2000.

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