Course Catalog - 2017-2018

     

HART 202 - MODERN ART IN EUROPE,1900-1945

Long Title: AVANT-GARDE AND AFTER: MODERN ART IN EUROPE, 1900-1945
Department: Art History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
May not be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
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. Students cannot receive credit for HART 202 and HART 305.