History of Modern Art II (Bachelor’s Degree)

Pre-requisites: There are no prerequisites for this course but the attendance to lectures and seminars is mandatory.

Course objectives: The goal of the course is to acquire students with theoretical and historical knowledge about the artistic forms and trends created after the World War II analyzed through major social, cultural, ideological and political processes of postwar Europe and United States, as well as to to provide students with proficiency in interpreting theories, language and practice conditioned by the influence of modern art in Serbian and nearby surroundings.

Course description: The course is organized so that through the active dialogue students are given an opportunity to examine the phenomena of Euro-American art after 1945 (informal, abstract expressionism, painting actions, pop art, optical and kinetic art, new realism, post painting abstraction, the painting of colored field, minimalism, conceptual art, poor art, hyperrealism, postmodern phenomena) and phenomena of modern arts in Serbia and surrounding using problem selective opus analysis and sections of the opus of certain authors, specific aspects isolated from one or more movements, that belong to either a domain of formal-linguistic beliefs, or the domain of program-theoretical, ideological, or political beliefs. The course also includes manifestations of postwar modernism to be treated and interpreted from formal-linguistics’ point of view and stylistic determiners, as well as in the context of their social, ideological and/or political background. Along with theoretical insights, the course also examines concrete examples from art practice that are of importance for issues concerning central subject matters. The course is not designed as the interpretation of genesis of modern Serbian art but as the examination and assessment of its major ideas and formal-linguistic contents, as well as the adequate evaluation of regional characteristics and differences.

Learning Outcomes: After attending the course the student will be capable of interpreting and analyzing the fundamental theoretical and conceptual hypothesis and proposals about art movements and occurrences of postwar modernism and postmodernism, as well as towards evaluating and interpreting stylistic languages and ideological contents of phenomena of modern arts, and identifying and categorizing their regional characteristics and differences.

Literature/Reading:

• Grupa autora, Posle 45, Umjetnost našeg vremena, Beograd-Zagreb-Ljubljana 1972, 13-104)
• Concepts of Modern Art, (revised and enlarged edition) ed. by N. Stangos, Penguin books, 1981; 1990 (poglavlja: Kinetic Art, Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art 212-273)
• E.Lucie-Smith, Movements in Art Since 1945, Penguin books, 1995 (poglavlja: Post Painterly Abstraction; Pop, Environments and Happenings, Arte Povera, Post Minimalism, 90-218)
• M.Kohler, Postmodernismus: povijesno-pojmovni pregled , Republika,10-12, Zagreb 1985
• C.Greenberg, Ogledi o posleratnoj američkoj umetnosti, Novi Sad 1997
• L.Lippard, Pop art, Beograd 1967 ili eng. Penguin books, 1996
• R.L.Goldberg, Performance Art, from Futurism to present, revised, Penguin books, 1988
• D.Ashton, The New York School, a Cultural Reckoning, Penguin books, 1979
• Konceptualna umetnost, tematski broj, Polja 156, Novi Sad 1972
• E.Lucie Smith, Umjetnost danas, Zagreb 1978
• L. Trifunović, Srpsko slikarstvo 1900-1950, Beograd 1973.
• S.Čupić, Teme i ideje: srpska umetnost 1900-1941, Galerija Matice srpske, Novi Sad 2008.
• L. Merenik, Umetnost i vlast: srpsko slikarstvo 1945–1968, Filozofski fakultet Beograd i Fond Vujičić kolekcija, Beograd 2010.
• V. Golubović i I. Subotić, Zenit1921-1926, Narodna biblioteka Srbije / Institut za književnost i umetnost (Beograd) / SDK Prosvjeta (Zagreb), Beograd 2008, 15-75.
• M. Todić, Nemoguće, umetnost nadrealizma, Muzej primenjene umetnosti, Beograd 2002, 19-67.
• L. Vergine, Body Art and Performance, Skira 2000.
• T. McEvilley, The Triumph of Anti-Art. Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism, McPherson & Companz 2005.
• Jasna Jovanov, Demistifikacija apokrifa (Dadaizam na jugoslovenskim prostorima 1920/1922), Apostrof, Novi Sad 1999.