Course overview

This course is for carers, those who have cared, and for the cared for. Study the destruction of art by artists as well as artists who destroy their work to make new art.

Course description

Looking at the reasons that artists destroy their works such as Claude Monet and Louise Bourgeois, to artists who deliberately destroy their work such as John Baldessari, the pioneer of Conceptual Art, and Susan Hiller his contemporary.

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