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Abstraction: from Kandinsky to Minimalism - SAHT2680
 SAHT2680

   
   
   
 
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Abstraction is one of the most important developments in twentieth-century art, this course traces the emergence of abstraction in Europe in the early part of the century (Kandinsky, Mondrian) through to the deadpan literalism of American minimalism in the 1960s. Topics to be examined include: spiritual versus literal accounts of abstraction; various languages of abstraction (expressionism, constructivism, concretism); genres of abstract painting (the monochrome, the achrome); and historical movements centering on abstraction (Group Zero, Neo-Dada, Kinetic Art, Abstract Expressionism, Brazilian Neo-Concretism, Colour field painting, Minimalism).

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