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Why does so much contemporary art seem provocative and
confrontational?
What does art demand of us?

Since the 1980s, some artists have made work that asks difficult
moral and political questions while others have sought new means for
exploring art’s expressive capacity. Feminism, Queer Theory, and so-
called “identity politics” have entered the mainstream.
Globalization means that jet-setting curators are now the norm. In
the museum, photography, video, performance, installation and
digital media have taken their places alongside painting, print-
making, and sculpture. This course surveys the diverse tendencies
and debates that have defined recent art, asking how a new younger
generation of artists and art historians is making sense of the
exciting possibilities.