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Nationalism, Internationalism, and Globalism in Modern Art

Undergraduate / Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2016

Topics

  • Introduction (syllabus review, discussion of handouts / presentations)
  • Nation, Word, Nomad (units, maps, movable agents – history )
  • Paris (world pictures, materials, infrastructures – philosophy )
  • Venice (empire into nation, cosmopolite – political philosophy )
  • London (arts, manufactures, empire – anthropology )
  • Weimar / Moscow (International Cold War – architecturology )
  • São Paulo / Brasilia / Africa (from Cold War to postcolonial nationalisms – anthropophagology )
  • Osaka / Asia (orientalism and globalization – literary theory )
  • Documenta / Manifesta (cosmopolitanism, take 2 – transnationalism )
  • Joahnnesburg / UAE (cities, branding, globalization theory – sociology )
  • Seminar research / presentation workshops
  • Seminar research / presentation workshops (cont.)

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