ARTH 375 Issues in the Montreal Art Milieu: Art and Visual Culture in Montreal - the 1960s, 70s, and 80s

• Tuesdays, 2:45-5:30 pm
• Instructor: Dr. Johanne Sloan

This course is concerned with the art and visual culture of Montreal during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. We will look at Expo 67 and the Ti-Pop art movement of the 1960s, Conceptual Art initiatives of the 70s, and the Postmodern scene of the 1980s. Throughout these decades there were art movements and tendencies that circulated internationally, but those would get taken up by local artists – so that the art became rooted in Montreal, and meaningful for the people who live in this city. These were socially and politically tumultuous decades, and so we’ll also consider different types of visual culture – photography, posters, print culture, and/or comics – linked to the Québécois nationalist movement, feminist politics, protests by Black students, Indigenous projects, gay rights, urban activism, countercultural practices, and the anti- Vietnam War movement. Students will have the opportunity to explore research projects related to this dynamic episode in the history of Montreal.