Course Catalog - 2008-2009

     

HART 305 - ART IN EUROPE, 1900-1945

Long Title: ART IN EUROPE, 1900-1945
Department: Art History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This class surveys European art from roughly 1900-1945, paying particular attention to the social contexts in which this work emerged and the interpretive strategies that have been used to understand it. Among the topics to be considered are Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dada, and Surrealism, as well as the reaction against these by emergent authoritarian regimes of the 1930s.