An introduction to the major movements, styles and artists from Impressionism to Post Modernism. Examines how themes of Modern Art reflect the social, historical and cultural events of the period.
This course stresses visual arts, but it may include a wide variety of the arts, including poetry, music, architecture, the novel, and drama. The fundamental emphasis, nonetheless, should be upon the extraordinary inventions of the great modernists-- Cezanne, Van Gogh, Mastise, Picasso, Braque, Klee, Moore, Kandinsky, and others down to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Related revolutions in adjacent Arts, such as the change in poetic form ushered in by William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound: the musical transformations carved out by Stravinsky and Bartok; James Joyce and Franz Kafka in narrative; Brecht in drama; the work of the Bauhaus group and that of Wright and Johnson in architecture: all these are useful artistic contexts of change to frame the visual upheavals at work in the high modern period under inspection in this course.
ENG 100/101
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