Modern Art and Modernity

Harvard FAS

What role do artistic practices play in the formation of modern culture and society, and how does art foster critical reflection and debate?How has modernity—understood as a socio-economic reality, technological condition, cultural discourse, and set of aesthetic practices—redefined the purpose and function of art over the past three hundred years or so? What role has modern art played in the constitution of the modern experience of subjectivity? Beginning in the early…