Explores how demographic, industrial, and production shifts impacted American society in the 1970s, leading to a dramatic change in how Americans lived, worked, and thought.
Traces the various art trends which emerged and developed between the late 1960s and ended in the early 1990s and looks at some of the period's influential artists, their works, and the social and cultural context of the times.
Explores the strained relationship between science and the humanities, considering why these realms of thought seem so irreconcilable. Discusses ongoing debates surrounding a variety of topics and details the benefits of philosophies garnered from the history and sociology of science.
Describes and analyzes the key ideas of postmodernism, discussing postmodernist artists, intellectuals, academic critics, philosophers, and social scientists as a left-leaning political party, and looking at how they see the world.
Offers a brief introduction to postmodernism, discussing its central issues and theories and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music.
History of art since 1940 when many artists of the European avant-garde moved to New York focusing on the artists' lives and how they intersected with broader cultural issues.
