European Avant-Garde Movements

3 credits · Undergraduate

Twentieth-century European aesthetic, political, and social imagination from Expressionism and Dadaism to Fluxus and Happenings. Connection between aesthetics and capitalism. Impact of World Wars on art and literature, gender roles, and 'exoticism'. Art as an institution and literature as performance. [3] (INT) (CORE B, C) (LE HFA)