This course takes the reception of the 1960s as its subject in order to explore the relationship between memory, history, and the production of visual art. Looking at art made since 1985, we explore the manner by which the art of the sixties continues to assert itself in the art and criticism of the present.  Since our primary concern will be with representations and repetitions of the 1960s—what James Meyer has termed the “Sixties Effect”—one of our key tasks as readers and writers will be to analyze the very nature of documentation and its role in authorizing specific historical narratives. Students will be introduced to some of the most pressing themes in the art of the recent past, including issues in photography, painting, and new media, questions of identity and difference, and the implications of a newly “global art.”