The 1950s: Independent Writing Seminar in Art History, Architectural Studies or Critical Theory 1

The 1950s: Independent Writing Seminar in Art History, Architectural Studies or Critical Theory is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies class taught by Karen Koehler. It is one of three writing seminars for The 1950s: Cold War Culture and the Birth of the Cool.

Course Description
Students in this course will develop an independent research paper on any aspect of the history of art, architecture, design or critical theory in the Cold War period. Students may choose develop papers on particular philosophical or theoretical concerns, such as existentialism, formalism, or structuralism, or historical concerns such as colonialism, censorship, etc. as they were expressed in art or in critical texts. Students can also choose to work on an individual artist, work of art, building or object of their choosing, from any place or region of the world?from the emergence of the postwar American suburb, to Abstract Expressionism, to European Art Brut, to the Hundred Flowers Campaign in China, to the emergence of a contemporary African art in Johannesburg. Students will engage in independent research, present their work to one another, and continue to revise their paper with support from the instructor throughout the semester. Not for distribution or first-year students. Students in this workshop MUST ALSO ENROLL in HACU 240: The 1950s: Cold War Culture and the Birth of the Cool.