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John David Ebert to Teach MOOC on Understanding Contemporary Art

August 29, 2014 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ART

Taught by John David Ebert

Hosted by Open Online Academy

For Eight Weeks

Class Begins: September 29, 2014

Class Ends: November 21, 2014

Number of Video Lectures: Approximately 60

To Enroll, simply press a button at the following link and sit back to begin watching the first week’s lectures on Sept 29:

http://www.ooed.org/learn/understanding-contemporary-art-fall-2014

Course Summary

Have you ever wanted to understand contemporary art, but weren’t sure how to go about it? Well, this course will give you the tools you need to understand ANY contemporary work of art, no matter how obscure or difficult it seems. From Pop Art to today’s museum installations, from Andy Warhol to Damien Hirst, this course will cover that past five decades of the main developments in art history. It will take you close in, and close up to the works of the most famous, and famously difficult, artists of the past five decades. By taking you on a guided tour of the works of contemporary art’s most important artists, you will develop the skills to recognize and appreciate this art’s major protagonists. Artists covered, week by week, will include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Franics Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Odd Nerdrum, Anselm Kiefer, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, and Christian Boltanski. The detailed discussions of their works, in jargon free and comprehensible language, will enable you to understand the significance of contemporary art as a whole.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week One: Introduction and Abstract Expressionism: Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko

Week Two: Pop Art: Andy Warhol, Paul Thek and Jean-Michel Basquiat

Week Three: Postwar German Art Part 1: Joseph Beuys and Odd Nerdrum

Week Four: Postwar German Art Part 2: Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer

Week Five: The Postwar Art of Rome and Paris: Jannis Kounellis and Christian Boltanski

Week Six: Postwar British Art: Francis Bacon, Damien Hirst and Anish Kapoor

Week Seven: Land Art: James Turrell and Andy Goldsworthy

Week Eight: Media Old and New: Susan Rothenberg and Bill Viola

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student will come to have a grasp of the main developments of contemporary art and will be conversant with its vocabulary and ideas. He or she will be able to recognize the main thematic debates of this art and be conversant with them.

WORKLOAD

The student will read chapters from Art After Metaphysics by John David Ebert; as well as selected online readings. The student will watch through the videos, approximately 448 minutes worth of viewing.

TEXTBOOK

The main textbook to be used in this course is Art After Metaphysics by John David Ebert. It is available on Amazon here:

http://www.amazon.com/After-Metaphysics-John-David-Ebert/dp/1492765481/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409242191&sr=8-1&keywords=art+after+metaphysics

ASSESSMENTS

There will be multiple choice quizzes for each video.

PREREQUISITES

No prior knowledge is required for this course.

CERTIFICATION

For those students who are interested, a certificate of completion is available for this course.

PROFESSOR

John David Ebert

John is the author of eight books examining various topics of cultural criticism. These include Dead Celebrities, Living Icons (Praeger / Greenwood, 2010), The New Media Invasion (McFarland, 2011), The Age of Catastrophe(McFarland, 2012), Post-Classic Cinema (Create Space, 2013), Art After Metaphysics (Create Space, 2013) andGiant Humans, Tiny Worlds: Adventures in the Universe of Graphic Novels (Create Space, 2014).

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