Tuesday History of Art: Learn & Discuss
Tuesdays 7pm - 9pm
This weekly art history group with an emphasis on painting is led by Linda Polkowski - an academic with a degree in Art History and a love of teaching. Art and thought from the 1970s to present day. How do you define contemporary art? There has been, and still is, such a multiplicity of styles, mediums and approaches to contemporary art that it is hard to categorise. This is the result of a number of influential factors impacting the production of art since 1970 such as the cold war, feminism, migration, politics and globalisation. These sessions will take into account the flux of contemporary experience, but we will focus primarily on what happened to painting. Tuesday 4th February 2025: The 1970s This session will provide some background prior to the 70s and will feature artists such as Philip Guston, who shifted his focus from Abstract Expressionism to figurative painting. We will consider the School of London with its revival of interest in figurative art including Auerbach, Kitaj, Freud, Hockney, Hodgkin, and Kossoff. Tuesday 11th February 2025: The 1980s Baselitz' influence on German art in the 70s helped to pave the way for Neo-Expressionists such as Schnabel, Clemente and Basquiat in the 80s. Meanwhile, in the USA, there is an emphasis on art and consumerism, and we will look at works by Kruger, Sherman, Prince and Levin and the influence of the philosopher Fredric Jameson. Tuesday 18th February 2025: The 1990s We will have an overview of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement, led by Damien Hirst. This will include work by Emin, Whiteread and others. The thinker Arthur Danto will be included as he sheds some light on the history of art with his own contemporary version of Hegel's dialectical history of art. The flourishing art scenes in China and Russia will also be considered. Tuesday 25th February 2025: 21st Century Art beyond the 90s continues to encompass a variety of approaches. Among them, Aldrich and his link to “provisional painting”; the mercurial Bradley, the draughtsmanship of Eisenman, the versatility of Ruby, the abjection of Schutz. We will also consider theorists such as Derrida and Foucault regarding the various modernisms and how all this links through to other thinkers such as Kornbluh and Eagleton, who offer an update as to what came after postmodernism. Tuesdays 7pm - 9pm with Linda Polkowski This pay-as-you-go class takes place at: North Yorks Art School 2-4 South Street Scarborough YO11 2BP
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