ARTH 400 Advanced Seminar in Art Historical Method

• Thursdays, 8:45-11:30 am
• Instructor: Dr. Vanessa Parent

This course examines art and visual cultural production from the late-1970s to present-day against the backdrop of rapid financial and capital market liberalization policies known as neoliberalism and their global consequences including globalization and economic imperialism, economic inequality and radical individualism. The notion of utopia and dystopia will serve as a critical framework to approach the development of neoliberal economic policies and their global impacts as well as the aesthetic tactics employed by artists responding to them. Taking on a global approach, this course will demand nuanced engagement with issues relating to race, class, sex and gender through topics such as social and economic inequality; the impacts of fast-paced technological change whether social media or AI; and the corporatization of social justice movements.