ArtHist 170 History of Contemporary Art 

Prerequisite: None | Advisory: English 101

Associate Degree Applicable: Gen.Ed. and IGETC Humanities credit

Transferable: U.C., C.S.U.

3 Units Lecture: 3 hours

Professor Thomas Folland 

Follantf@laccd.edu

Note: This is a ZTC (zero-cost textbook) course. All reading are online, no textbook purchase is required.  

Readings are assigned through KhanAcademy.org which holds a Creative Commons License. Click here for more information. 

"Note: All Khan Academy content is available for free at (www.khanacademy.org)".

Required reading:

1.  http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/

2.  Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

3. Additional readings may be provided.

Course Description: A history of the major stylistic movements of Contemporary art from 1945 to the present with attention to the historical circumstances of visual culture. While the Euro-American tradition will be the primary focus, art produced by the global community will also be considered with the advent of Globalism in the 1990s.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the evolution and function of art within historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts of Post World War II culture and society. 
2. Compare and contrast works of art and architecture from different geographic areas and different stylistic movements.