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AR 244 Section 2 Modern Art History II
Steven Michael Vroom: Instructor
Course Description: Survey of the visual arts in Europe and the United States from the First World War to 1970. The formal, stylistic and philosophical developments in painting, sculpture, architecture and photography will be examined, with regard to the social, political and historical events that influence artistic trends.
SYLLABUS [SUBJECT TO REVISION]
PART I After The Great War
Week 1 Introduction and Course Requirements
Week 2 World War One: Zurich Dada and its aftermath
Week.. 3 Berlin Between the Wars
Week 4 The Great Russian Experiment
Week 5 Paris and the Old Masters of Modernism
Week 6 Surrealism and the Return to Reason
Week 7 Modernism in America; The Federal Art Project
Week 8 MID-TERM EXAM
PART II The Post World War II World
Week 9 Europe after the War
Week 10 Abstract Expressionism and the "New York School"
Week 11 Fluxus, Pop Art etc.
Part III The Temporary Contemporay
Week 12 Minimalism
Week 13 Postmodernism
Week 14 Cyberpunk, Intermedia and the Eighties
Week 15 FINAL EXAM; term projects due.
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