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This special seminar examines the history of American painting from the late 19th century to the present. The course will take a long view of history and will focus on the key debates, figures and outliers that have shaped the painterly imagination in America over the past two centuries. Our approach will be chronological as well as thematic. A central concern of the seminar will be to interrogate how the transformative procedures of painterly depiction actively produce concepts of gender, race, sexuality, and class. Thinking through the contemporary moment, older problems tied to the previous century have reared their head again: a return to the subject, to gesture, to materialism, and finally, to thinking through tradition and history. As a means to address these questions, we will look at a collection of case studies from the work of Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Eakins, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Agnes Martin, Alice Neel, Philip Guston, Noah Davis, Kerry James Marshall, Nicole Eisenman, and Amy Sillman (among many others). |
