Class 1
During this class we will take a look at Minimalism, an extreme form of abstract art mostly developed in the US, emerging in New York in the early 1960s. Minimalist artists questioned conventional boundaries between various media and used industrial materials thus emphasizing anonymity over the expressive excess of Abstract Expressionism. Painters and sculptors avoided overt symbolism and emotional content, but instead called attention to the materiality of their works.

Class 2
During this session we’ll explore what has been labelled as Land Art, Earth Art or environmental art, and Earthworks. “Land art” expanded boundaries of art by the materials used and the location of the works. Land art was part of the wider conceptual art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Earth art was usually documented in artworks using photographs and maps which the artist could exhibit in a gallery. Land artists also made land art in the gallery by bringing in material from the landscape and using it to create installations.

Class 3
During this session we’ll work on the notion of Conceptual art, based on Lucy Lippard’s essay “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972” , Lippard presented evidence that art might be entering a phase of pure intellectualism, the result of which could be the complete disappearance of the traditional art object.

Evaluation: Multiple choice test