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This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
666 years, 7 months
Units & Quizzes
24
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
It focuses on the way artists use the tension between fine art and mass culture to mobilize a critique of both. We will examine objects of visual art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints, performance and video. These objects will be viewed in their interaction with advertising, caricature, comics, graffiti, television, fashion, folk art, and “primitive” art.
Course Currilcum
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- Introduction to Theories of Modernism and Modernity Unlimited
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- Introduction to Theories of Mass Culture Unlimited
- Eugène Delacroix, or How to Imagine Liberty Unlimited
- Caricature and the Safehouse of “High Art” Unlimited
- Courbet, Realism, and Popular Images / ASCO preview Unlimited
- The Impressionist Eye as Camera Unlimited
- The Soviet Avant-Garde Unlimited
- Futurism’s and Dadaism’s Popular Mechanics Unlimited
- Anti-culture? Dubuffet, Pollock, and Premonitions of the Postmodern Unlimited
- Postmodernism, Spectacle, and Institutional Critique Unlimited
- Postmodernism and Feminism Unlimited
- Additional handout: Mapping Postmodernism Unlimited
- Present-day Strategies Vis-à-vis Art and Mass Culture Unlimited
- Last class: concluding discussion of class themes, review for exam, and discussion of student research paper abstracts Unlimited
