ART 553 - Twentieth Century Art

Catalog Year 2015-2016

This course surveys the key artists and artistic movements in Europe and the United States from 1880 to 1945. It emphasizes the development of avant-garde movements in major artistic centers, competing meanings of modernism, the history of the institutions, ideas, and events that contributed to the formation of modern art, and the critical approaches that shaped the construction of the modern art canon. Graduate students who took ART 353 as an undergraduate are not eligible to take ART 553.

PREREQ: Graduate standing or instructor permission
credit: 3