This series of illustrated lectures traces key developments, themes, and strategies explored by modern and contemporary artists. In each lecture, modern and contemporary art is approached as a cultural field most richly experienced through an understanding of its multiple, intertwined contexts. This course expands art historian Kolya Rice’s winter 2009 course Topics of Contemporary Art to include modern art, and offers a preview of the upcoming Frye exhibition The Old, Weird America (October 3, 2009–January 3, 2010).

Kolya Rice
All levels of students
July 14–17, 10:15–12:45 pm

Kolya Rice

Kolya Rice, currently a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art history and criticism at the University of Washington (UW), was raised in the Seattle area and received his M.A. from Rice University. He has taught courses on western art, theory, and criticism at the UW, University of Puget Sound, and Seattle University over the past decade, and is an adjunct professor in the UW's Art History and Master of Arts in Museology program.