ARTS 302 - Art from 1900-1960

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT

This course is a focused survey of art in the early 20th century, across media. It will serve as an introduction to major avant-garde movements, including Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Primitivism, Constructivism, and Abstract Expressionism. We will explore how artists adopted representational frameworks to navigate a world altered by technology, war, fascism, rationalization, and industrialization, thus raising questions about self and other; racial, sexual, and social identity; and arts relationship to the machine. This course requires fieldtrips.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Hansen
Prerequisites & Notes
A 100 level art history course.