Kevin Lotery
May 1, 2026 · Historical comment
Awesome class and awesome professor, loves what he's teaching and rewards participation even if you don't exactly know what you're talking about. Need to be open minded, but if you are it's easy and fun.
ARTH3010 · Fine Arts
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course traces art since roughly 1975, focusing primarily on Europe and the Americas in a global context. Rather than a strict survey, it looks closely at the key techniques, ideas, and debates conditioning contemporary art. We begin with postmodernist takes on the "politics of representation" in appropriation-based photographic and video works of the 1980s, situating them in larger discourses of feminist and queer theory, postcolonial thought, and critical race theory. We end with the challenges of our present and near future: ecological crisis, perpetual war, neo-fascist formations, questions of privilege, and the technologization of everyday life. What strategies have artists invented to research, articulate, and intervene in these ongoing emergencies?
Course experience
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Organization
4.4 / 5
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Challenge
4.5 / 5
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Attendance
4.4 / 5
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Assignments
4.4 / 5
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Weekly effort
~3
hours per week
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May 1, 2026 · Historical comment
Awesome class and awesome professor, loves what he's teaching and rewards participation even if you don't exactly know what you're talking about. Need to be open minded, but if you are it's easy and fun.
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Spring 2025
1 sectionFall 2023
1 section