Modernism and Cultural Politics

Catalog description

Issues of politics and art of the modernist period in Europe, focusing on movements significantly involved with and influenced by political thought and activism - from anarchism and Marxism to nationalism, neocatholicism, royalism, and fascism -and/or subject to recent politicized art historical interpretation. Topics may include the neo-impressionism; symbolism; catalanisme and the early Picasso; fauvism; primitivism, cubism; futurism; purism; the Bauhaus; deStijl; Russian avant-gardism; dada; and surrealism. Consent of instructor required.