Art of the Modern World

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the world’s major art and architectural movements from the year 1700 CE through the present. Students analyze artworks in terms of their formal and creative properties along with their relationships to political, economic, socio-cultural, historical, and environmental systems. Contemporary museum practices, the display and repatriation of artworks from colonized regions, and questions of censorship in the arts will also be a focus of this course.