GLOBAL MODERNISMS
Considers modernist art movements in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe between approximately 1900 and 1975, with an emphasis on practices in what has more recently been called the Global South. Key issues include: interactions between Indigenous, diasporic, and cosmopolitan practices; the phenomenon of modernist "primitivism"; modernism's involvement in the revolutions of the 20th century (e.g., the Mexican Revolution; Russian Revolution; decolonization movements in Asia and Africa); nationalism, developmentalist ideologies, and state support for the arts; Blackness as a transnational paradigm; and the emergence of global contemporary art from the coalescence of various local art worlds.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and differentiate major tendencies in global modernist art between approximately 1900 and 1975. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Compare related issues in modernist art across geographical, cultural, and historical boundaries. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interpret works of global modernist art in written and spoken form using concepts derived from readings, lectures, and group discussions. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Critically evaluate advanced secondary literature and primary sources in the field of art history. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and differentiate major tendencies in global modernist art between approximately 1900 and 1975. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Compare related issues in modernist art across geographical, cultural, and historical boundaries. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interpret works of global modernist art in written and spoken form using concepts derived from readings, lectures, and group discussions. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Critically evaluate advanced secondary literature and primary sources in the field of art history. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027