An examination of the extraordinary ferment in the visual arts in Germany from 1960 to the present. Beginning with the work of Joseph Beuys, the course will explore, through lecture and discussion, developments in painting, sculpture, and photography, including the work of such artists as Georg Baselitz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Bernhard and Anna Blume, Rebecca Horn, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel, Thomas Schutte, and Thomas Struth. Among the issues to be examined will be German art and historical memory; "Neo-Expressionism"; the rediscovery of alchemy; and the German reception of Pop Art. This lecture course may be taken for seminar credit. Extra seminar sessions will be held outside of the regular lectures for enrolled graduate students. Requirements: attendance at lectures, completion of all required reading, an oral report, to be presented in revised, written form at semester's end, and a ten-minute critical commentary on another student's oral report.