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FYI Dr. Bick has changed the time of this course to make it more accessible to you all (since it conflicted with one of the AMCs in Spring).</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The seminar will now meet on Tuesdays from 4:50 to 7:20pm.</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.15;"><b>Rob Duarte</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.15;">
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FSU Department of Art<br>
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<b>From:</b> Rob Duarte <rduarte@fsu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 22, 2025 11:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Listserv MFA <art-mfastudio@lists.fsu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> FYI: Spring art history elective: Global Contemporary Art </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>ARH 5806-01
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Tuesdays xxxxxxxxxxxx in WJB 2038</b></span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Dr. Bick </b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Course Description: What is “global contemporary art”? Often used as a catchall term for art of the present in
a globalcontext, meant to include art from around the world and art engaged with global circulation, thinking, and subject positions, the term emerged in acknowledgment of the distinctive connectedness
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the world in the post-Cold-War digital age and artists’ responses to it. The term (and subfield of art historical study) tends, however, to present contemporaryart as a universalist field of global, formal artistic currents that bridge historical constructions
of “West” and “non-West.” In so doing, it risks inattention to local histories as well as other world divisions that persist or arose anew after 1989. Examining these tensions, this seminar investigates global contemporary art as a rich field of art historical
study and exciting discourse of methodological debate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 16.48px;"><b>Prerequisite:
</b>Graduate standing in art history or related field. No auditing.</span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.15;"><b>Rob Duarte</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.15;">
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<b>Associate Professor & Graduate Director</b><br>
Department of Art<br>
Florida State University<br>
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O: (850) 644-6474<br>
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