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By (re-)visiting a diverse selection of popular and some maybe less known examples, this course is directed at both students with a previous knowledge in art history and the humanities, and from all other disciplines. While we will consider all genres, there will be a focus on the photographic medium and its manifold manifestations throughout the last century, following such exhibitions as – "Modernity in Central Europe, 1918 – 1945" at the National Gallery in Washington. As an overall framework, we shall move on a time line that begins with the advent of the last century and that ends in the 21st.Furthermore, we will always try to connect our historical examples with artistic strategies and practices of later periods and/or today. In doing so, we shall see, for instance, what Russian photography of the 1920s has to do with contemporary artists from Central Europe today; how the exhibition maker Harald Szeemann and German artists like Gerhardt Richter, Hans Haacke or Blinky Palermo marked the idea of conceptual art in the 1970s that resonate in the contemporary; and finally, how the last century seems to end with a promise of a (post-)national, global art scene, in which we seemingly cannot really speak of such ideas like German or European art any more. |
