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This course examines the development of the visual arts in America and Europe after WWII up through the beginnings of Postmodernism. Important movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Color Field, the Black Arts Movement, the Beats, Minimalism, and Conceptual art forms (body art, earth art, and performance art) are considered within a critical and theoretical context.