Art has expressed humanitys relationship to history in very different ways over the past thirty years. This week we begin by examining the mood of heroism that prevailed in painting of the 1980s, as artists such as Julian Schnabel and Anselm Kiefer celebrated human creativity and reveled in our ability to conjure different historical epochs in art.

Art has expressed humanitys relationship to history in very different ways over the past thirty years. This week we begin by examining the mood of heroism that prevailed in painting of the 1980s, as artists such as Julian Schnabel and Anselm Kiefer celebrated human creativity and reveled in our ability to conjure different historical epochs in art.

Id like to start the conversation by asking you what you think artists represent in our society today? In the past, our image of artists was shaped by Romanticism, which encouraged us to see them as heroic figures. We saw them as excluded from society (or voluntarily shunning it) and thinking deeply about issues such as history and human existence issues that the rest of us perhaps dont have the time to ponder amidst our hurried lives. But what about today? Does that image still hold? Is that an image that corresponds with the art and artists we see in the first lecture, on painting? Or do we think of artists differently, more in the mold of Andy Warhol, as ordinary but talented individuals, similar to those who might work today in advertising or design?

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