(previously registered for Art and cultural history before 1500 AND previously registered for Art and cultural history 1500-1800) OR previously registered for Art History and Contemporary Art 1.

The course Contemporary Art: Neo-Avant-Gardes explores a number of developments in art in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, supplemented by an overview of recent exhibitions, events and publications relating to contemporary visual art. Movements such as Cobra, Abstract Expressionism, Situationism, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Happening, Pop Art and Minimal Art are discussed. Attention is paid to both exhibition and publication history and to the most representative figures of these developments. These historical art developments are always linked to more recent art developments and current events in the art world. The course focuses on a transhistorical and transcultural way of looking at art developments between 1900 and 1945. For this reason, in addition to Western art developments, one or more non-Western art developments are also discussed.

Lectures take place every two weeks.
The PowerPoint presentation with visual material will be made available via the electronic learning platform. You are advised to add your own notes during the lectures and through self-study.

In addition to your personal notes, you can also use the following book:
Ad de Visser, De tweede helft. Beeldende kunst na 1945, Sun/Kritak, Nijmegen, 1998 (and later editions).
For students who do not speak Dutch, we recommend the following book:
David Hopkins, After Modern Art, 1945–2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York, 2000

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