Global Modernisms

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This course aims to pluralize aesthetic modernism, expand its definition and decentralize it from its origins in the West. It looks at how modernist styles in art and visual culture circled the globe and found expression within the cultural centers of the Global South. We will study modernist aesthetic practices within the context of regional histories in order to understand how these practices may reflect quests for self-determination, identity formation and social change in the post-colonial world. This course is dual listed with VS 570.