DR. MARIA ELENA BUSZEK
ARTHI4035-03: Seminar in Postmodern art and theory
Tuesdays, 2:30-5:30 DSB 104
Course
description:
Unlike Modernist art, postmodernism no
longer proclaims its autonomy, its self-sufficiency, or its transcendence.
Instead it narrates its own contingency, insufficiency, and immanence.
Postmodernism's deconstructive thrust allows us to compare art arising from a
dissatisfaction with "modernity." This course focuses on the culture and
codified signs of this dissatisfaction—reflected in
art, theory, music, and politics—as well as the pleasures to be found therein.
WRITING AND
RESEARCH: Citation style guidelines
Search the collection of KCAI's
Jannes Library
Research your papers on the Wilson Web!
Search the collection of the Kansas City Public
Libraries
Search the UMKC Libraries' catalog
Search the University of Kansas Libraries' catalog
Art in the news:
NEW!
Getty Research Institute acquires a historic American video-art archive
In honor
of his latest work at Matthew Marks, Frieze publishes an appreciation of
Charles Ray
The new New Museum of Contemporary Art opens in NYC
[Read Roberta Smith's review of the New Museum's opening
exhibition]
Tino Sehgal's "situations" reconfigure installation and performance art
Lawrence Weiner retrospective opens at Whitney Museum of American Art
Simon
Lee Gallery shows Arte Povera pioneer Michelangelo Pistoletto's work in London
Julian Schnabel's new film: A painter who directs? Or a director who paints?
Louis Vuitton store in LA-MoCA's Takashi Murakami show divides critics
Performa 7 turns over NYC to international performance artists
Martin Puryear retrospective opens at MoMA
The
Museum of the Moving Image opens and exhibition dedicated to Warhol's films
Lawrence Weiner to be the subject of upcoming Whitney Museum retrospective
Kara Walker's mid-career retrospective opens at the Whitney Museum of American
Art
Damien Hirst's infamous shark temporary finds a home at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art
Robert Irwin's career retrospective set to open in San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opens Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock
and Roll Since 1967
[See the MCA's website for more information on exhibition
and concert series]
See footage of
Morris and Schneemann's Site (1964)
Richard Prince retrospective opens at the Guggenheim Museum
When
parody becomes reality: the January 2001 "forecast" for Bush administration in
The Onion
Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint sculptures exhibited at London's
Serpentine Gallery
Sprüth/Magers-Munich
opens LA-based exhibition that explores the reality of Baudrillard's
"hyperreality"
Artist Elizabeth Murray dies at age 66
NYTimes
reviews a new crop of books that investigate our current "state of the art"
"Nobody
needs French theory:" NYTimes interviews Jean Baudrillard
New Yorker article revisits the CIA's "cultural cold war" projects
Ubufilms.com archives both canonical and
quirky examples of performance/film history
Check out Tout-Fait, the scholarly
journal dedicated entirely to Duchamp!
Baudrillard, The
Matrix, and "fashionable philosophy"