ARTH 5100 Graduate Seminar in Modernism

This graduate seminar–Part I–is devoted to issues in the history of Modernism from late nineteenth century to World War II. Begin with a rigorous examination of Cubism and its ancestry in Cezanne and Manet. Discuss the political implications of avant-garde movements in the period of World War I. The seminar examines the implications of the rise of an American art scene. Discuss the meanings of great artists such as Picasso, O’Keefe, and Duchamp, and also the value of an art history of style without names and heroes. The problems of the architecture of modernism also are investigated.
Credits: 3.0