Modernisms

A broad study of the histories and meanings of modern art from circa 1850 to 1950 with special attention to social and cultural shifts and related developments in the history of form, technique, and media. Themes include art and political upheaval; the avant-gardes; craft and colonialism; primitivism and futurism; the representation of history, landscape, and the figure; non-objectivity, collage, and the readymade.