LATS 462
Art of California: Pacific Standard Time Fall 2020
Division II Writing Skills Difference, Power, and Equity
Cross-listed ARTH 462 / ARTH 562 / AMST 462
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In this course, we will study the visual arts and culture of California after 1960 and consider the region’s place in modern art history. We will focus on a series of recent exhibitions organized as part of a Getty initiative entitled Pacific Standard Time. Diverse in scope, these shows explored important developments in postwar art in California, including feminist art, African American assemblage, Chicano collectives, Modernist architecture, craft, and queer activism. In this seminar, we will pursue research projects directly related to the art exhibitions we study, and examine southern California conceptualism, photography, performance, painting, sculpture (including assemblage and installation), and video by artists both canonical and lesser known. Student projects will analyze the critical responses to the exhibitions, while also exploring the roles of archives, art criticism, and curatorial practice in contemporary art history.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Expected: 12
Class#: 2921
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: Several short writing and research assignments, oral presentations, class participation, and a final research paper of 16-20 pages written in stages over the course of the semester. The course will feature synchronous online class meetings with some small discussion groups. Student presentations will be recorded offline and posted to GLOW.
Prerequisites: ARTH 102 - Grad Art exempt from ARTH 102 prerequisite
Enrollment Preferences: senior Art major and senior Latina/o Studies concentrators
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ARTH 462 Division I ARTH 562 Division I AMST 462 Division II LATS 462 Division II
WS Notes: There will be considerable focus on writing and peer-editing as a means of shaping critical thinking. We will treat writing as a process; revision is built into the syllabus. Students will receive from the instructor timely comments on their writing skills, with suggestions for improvement.
DPE Notes: Course themes of art and activism, borders and diaspora, globalism and modernism in the visual arts and how they intersect with the exploration of difference, power, and equity and the various ways that artists have produced works and developed practices that critically probe this intersection. Through discussion, presentations, and writing assignments students will develop skills in analyzing artworks and exhibitions that respond to and/or document social inequality and social injustice.
Attributes: AMST Arts in Context Electives
AMST Space and Place Electives
ARTH post-1800
LATS Comparative Race + Ethnic Studies Electives

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