Admission requirements
Lectures will be held in English. Reading skills also in German are required.
Description
The course focuses on selected artists from the 20th century and aims to look at art as a complex structure, which always evolves in the context of society, economy and politics. Selected topics:
Gustav Klimt and Viennese Modernism
Adolf Loos: „Ornament and Crime“
Viennese Kineticism and Erika Giovanna Klien: „Degenerate Art“ and Culture Politics of German Nationalsozialismus
Oskar Kokoschka’s Political Allegories of WW II
Futurism and Italian Fascism
Socialist Realism in the Communist Countries
Andy Warhol and Consumer Culture
Niki de Saint-Phalle and early Feminism
Joseph Beuys: „Soziale Plastik“
Cindy Sherman and the New Media
Damien Hirst and Neoliberalism
Timetable
See timetable History
Mode of instruction
Lectures
Assessment method
Written exam, several questions to be answered in essay form
Blackboard
Reading list
David Hopkins, After Modern Art: 1945-2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000)
Verena Krieger, Was ist ein Künstler? Genie – Heilsbringer – Antikünstler(Köln: Deubner Verlag 2007)
Registration
Via uSis
Contact information
Prof. dr. Patrick Werkner (Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wenen)
Remarks
Lectures will be held in English. Reading skills also in German are required.