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  1. Characteristics of the Contemporary World: Post-Modernism

  2. Toward a New Global Order, 1970–2001
    1. National issues and international realignment
      1. Economic trends and crises
      2. Domestic challenges and changes in the United States and Soviet Union
      3. The fall of communism
    2. The post-cold war global world
      1. The emergence of the United States as the only superpower
          2. a) Survey of other global powers
          b) Resurgence of late-nineteenth-century trends: nationalism and ethnic violence
          c) The global economy and regional economic alliances
      2. Postmodernism and American culture

  3. The Age of Terror, 2001–
    1. Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001
    2. Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda
    3. War in Afghanistan
    4. War in Iraq
    5. Recession

  4. The Birth of Postmodernism
    1. Differences between late modernism and postmodernism
    2. American role and influence
    3. Medicine, science, and technology
      1. Medical and pharmaceutical advancements
      2. Genetic advancements
      3. Technological advancements: machines, communications, and the information age
      4. Environmental concerns
    4. Philosophy and religion
      1. Poststructuralism and deconstruction
          2. a) Kuhn
          b) Barthes
          c) Derrida
      2. Liberation theology and Christian social justice
      3. Evangelicalism and the Religious Right
      4. The state of contemporary organized religion
    5. The literature of Postmodernism: global Western culture
      1. Latin American writers
          2. a) Borges
          b) García Márquez
      2. Eastern European writers—Milan Kundera
      3. African American writers
          4. a) Walker
          b) Morrison
      4. Chinese-American writer Maxine Hong Kingston
      5. Multicultural literary voices
      6. Poetry: Walcott
      7. Drama
    6. Postmodernism and the arts
      1. Painting
          2. a) Pearlstein
          b) Kiefer
          c) Rothenberg
          d) Botero
          e) Blake
          f) Stella
          g) Gillam
          h) Richter
      2. Sculpture
          3. a) De Andrea
          b) Minimalism: Flavin and Lin
          c) Christo and Jeanne-Claude
          d) Kapoor
          e) Whiteread
      3. Installation art
          4. a) Definition
          b) Hamilton
      4. Environmental art
          5. a) Definition
          b) Smithson
      5. Video art
          6. a) Definition
          b) Paik
      6. Architecture
          7. a) Venturi
          b) I. M. Pei
          c) Rogers
          d) Piano
          e) Johnson
          f) Gehry
          g) Koolhaas
          h) Hadid
    7. Film
      1. New technologies, bigger screens, more expensive films
      2. Art films
      3. Blaxplotation films
      4. Martial arts films
    8. Postmodern music
      1. Glass
      2. Adams
      3. Ligeti
      4. Corigliano
      5. Tan Dun
    9. Performance art
      1. Laurie Anderson
      2. Cindy Sherman
    10. Mass culture

  5. Summing Up

  6. The Legacy of the Contemporary World






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