LIBRARY
ART 330: Contemporary Humanities: 8: Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World - Part 2
This course offers an introduction to the thought, values, and arts of Western culture through an exploration of the fine and performing arts in the twentieth century.
Culture and Context
Module 8 — Without Boundaries: Globalization, Terror and Post-Modernism
Beyond 20th Century — Contemporary Art
Literature
Architecture
Visual Arts
- William Segal by Ken BurnsWilliam Segal, was a philosopher, publisher, writer and painter who searched relentlessly and compassionately for meaning in the 20th century. Segal helped bring Eastern and Western spiritual traditions together, always stressing what connected humanity rather than what differentiated it. In the last decade of his life, Segal befriended the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, and the two collaborated on this trilogy. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
- Yayoi Kusama, “art medicine”
- Corita Kent
- Kara Walker
- Lynda Benglis
- Elizabeth Catlett
- Sue Coe "Modern Man" and "The Ghosts of His Meat"
- Maya Ying Lin "Vietnam Veteran's Memorial"
- Cindy Sherman
An interview with artist Hank Willis Thomas on the topic of his work, including Question Bridge: Black Males and the collaborative work Truth Booth. By Cleveland Museum of Art