Modernist Art: 1900 to 1950

Undergraduate catalogue

A critical study of the major movements, paradigms, and documents of modernist art from fauvism to art brut. Among the topics covered are primitivism, abstraction, collage, the readymade, machine aesthetics, photographic reproduction, the art of the insane, artists in political revolution, anti-modernism. For department majors, this course satisfies the 1800-present historical period distribution requirement. Two lectures, one preceptorial.