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MWF 1:00PM-2:00, Angell Hall Auditorium D Arts of the 20th
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In this course we will explore, more or less chronologically, the work of major 20th-century European and American artists. Two fundamental issues will dominate the survey. The first concerns the way in which avant-garde artists, beginning with Picasso’s influential attack on traditional conventions in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), have repeatedly, in their artistic practice over the course of the past ninety years, interrogated the nature of signification itself (in other words, how form produces meaning). Relatedly, the second issue that we will consider is the avant-garde’s ambitious but theoretically highly controversial relationship to revolutionary politics. The course is designed so as to help you develop the vocabulary, the analytical and visual tools, that are necessary in order to come to grips with the great diversity of works and critical debates that constitute the historyof 20th-century art. Course requirements: attendance at lecture and sections, mid-term and final exams (both in-class) and two 5-8 page papers. (Paice, Kimberly) |
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