SPECIAL TOPICS IN THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 8

Β. The History of Post-War and Contemporary Art

8th Semester
Course Code: 
4160
Type: 
Elective Course
Teaching Hours: 
3
Domain: 
Dept. Ι
Course Format: 
Theory - Exercise

Art (painting, sculpture, installations, performative practices) after 1945. The influence of significant figures of post-war avant-garde. Art after the end of Worl War II in Europe and the United States. American Abstract Expressionism and European Realism. The “Generation of the Thirties” and the activities of its members in Greece after World War II. Pop art, environments and performances in the 1960s to 1980s and their European forms. The “Generation of the Eighties” in Greece: Abstraction, Representationalism. Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Body Art. Artistic expression in the USA and Europe in the last two decades of the 20th century. New Expressionism and return to narrativity in Greek art in the last decades of the 20th century. Feminist art, graffiti, video art, photographic realism, digital art, neo-pop art.

 

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The course will not be taught during the current academic year