Introduction to Modernism (255-0-1)

Instructors

Christina Kiaer

Meeting Info

Block Pick-Laudati Auditorium: Mon, Wed 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

What is modernism? Why did artists in Western Europe in the late nineteenth century stop making realistic images of the world and instead start experimenting with form to the point that they invented abstract art, or left traditional art behind completely in favor of photography, photomontage or other media? How did artists from other parts of the world reject or transform these developments? Modernist art arose in the historical period we call modernity, defined by colonialism and imperial expansion; industrialization; urbanization; revolution and mass war; the rise of mass commodity culture, spectacle and technology; and the emergence of the art market as we know it today. From the late 19th to the mid-20th C, we will examine the key modernist "isms": Impressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Suprematism, Purism, Constructivism, Socialist Realism, and Abstract Expressionism, as well as how they were reworked in the art of some of the non-European cultures to which they were often indebted.

Class Attributes

Historical Studies Foundational Discipline
Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
Historical Studies Distro Area
Interdisciplinary Distro-rules apply
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area
Global Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity

Associated Classes

DIS - University Library 3370: Fri 9:00AM - 9:50AM

DIS - University Library 3322: Fri 10:00AM - 10:50AM

DIS - University Library 3622: Fri 11:00AM - 11:50AM

DIS - University Library 3722: Fri 12:00PM - 12:50PM

DIS - Parkes Hall 213: Fri 1:00PM - 1:50PM

DIS - Parkes Hall 213: Fri 2:00PM - 2:50PM

DIS - University Library 5722: Fri 10:00AM - 10:50AM

DIS - University Library 5722: Fri 11:00AM - 11:50AM