ARTH 216
Modernism, Anti-modernism, and the Avant-garde, 1900-1950
Last Offered Spring 2024
Division I
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

This course is designed to introduce students to the key artistic movements and aesthetic debates in the first half of the Twentieth Century in Europe, the U.S.S.R., Mexico, and the United States. We will trace the rise of Modernism and Anti-modernism and investigate the concept of the avant-garde. We will situate the crucial artistic movements of the period–from Fauvism to Futurism, Cubism to Constructivism, Social Realism to Surrealism, Art Deco to Dada, the Harlem Renaissance to the Bauhaus–within the social, political, economic and historical contexts in which they arose. Particular attention will be paid to how the work of women artists contributed to the aesthetic and philosophical motivations that shaped the avant-garde.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 25
Expected: 25
Class#: 3994
Grading: yes pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: Attendance, active participation, short writing assignments, regular quizzes, oral presentations.
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Preferences: Art history majors and prospective majors
Distributions: Divison I
Attributes: ARTH post-1800

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