Art and Beyond
Term:
Fall 2011
Subject Code:
GLIB
Course Number:
5823
What used to be considered the classical avant-garde has
risen to acceptance and legitimacy with such success in reordering aesthetic
vision that contemporary works adhering to earlier canons came to be rejected
or sidelined. A brief review of how art styles such as cubism, fauvism,
futurism, expressionism became classics, and like other art forms, such as
music and dance, underwent revolutionary transformations: mixtures of new and
ancient modes, dissonance, tone-rows, operas without arias, blending of popular
forms with "serious," serves as a base for understanding the new
challenges that art faces from changing institutional contexts and rapidly
changing technologies. As a social construction that has provided symbolic
supports for competing status groups, nation states, and artists, the arts face
unprecedented global structures and processes that provoke creation, production,
dissemination. Among other things, these force us to question whether the long
held beliefs for the autonomy of individual artists and their creations are
still viable.
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