Modern Art History in Review 1

Open to Art Program BFA2.
Art Program BFA2 students will be pre-enrolled in
this class.
This course may be open to students at other year
levels, and in other Schools, by Permission of
Instructor.

This course will investigate the development of
modernity and modern art in relation to the
social, political, technological, and cultural
shifts and upheavals of the 19th and early 20th
centuries. We will consider multiple points of
origin for modernism, as well as the crucial
concepts and terminology underlying it, including
the notion of the avant-garde. The class will
engage influential artists and movements (such as
Realism, Impressionism, Cubism, Suprematism,
Dada, and Surrealism) alongside contemporaneous
advances and ideas in literature, music,
architecture and design, as well as the invention
and popularization of photographic and cinematic
technologies.