ARTH 252 - Collectives and Collaboration in Modern and Contemporary Art

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
This course traces the importance of creative collaboration and spaces of collective art practice in the 20th and 21st centuries. Taking a global approach, we will study how collaboration enabled experiments in materials, style, and audience with attention to the significance of collective work for artists marginalized from the dominant art world whether because of geography or gendered, racial, ethnic, and sexual identities. Drawing extensively from primary sources, students will consider topics including group versus individual voice, art and identity formation, alternative modes of display, audience, and institutionalization. Field trip(s) required. Recommended Preparation: one 100-level course in art history.

Undergraduate Research Intensive