Twentieth Century Art In Europe And America

The dissemination and assimilation of modernism in Europe and America after the moment of high Cubism, the establishment of abstraction as the language of the avant-garde, and the gradual shift in the location of the modern art center from Paris to New York after World War II. Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, and the New Expressionism from a critical, contextual standpoint. Postmodernism as a movement and a critique of modernism. Extra assignments and class meetings. (Also offered as lower-level.)