Introduction to Modern Art

3 units

This course will examine major developments in European and American art from the mid-nineteenth century through 1945. The focus will be on both the aesthetics of modernism and its evolving cultural and political context. Topics will include Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Suprematism, the Stieglitz Circle, Dada, the Harlem Renaissance, Social Realism, Surrealism, and the Bauhaus.