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2012-2013 University Catalog [Archived Catalogue]
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LAAH 120 Modern & Contemporary ArtDivision of Liberal Arts
3 credits 45.0 hours
100 level undergraduate course
The course introduces students to concepts of Modernism and Modernity in European and American cultures from the turn of the 20th century, the rise and fall of New York as an Art Center and the beginning of Post-modern and global concerns in the late 20th and 21st centuries. Students will learn from lectures, sound clips, and short films and museum visits. Among the movements discussed will be impressionism, Post-impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism and DeStijl, Constructivism and Suprematism, Abstract Expressionism, Image Generation and Appropriation modes, the rise of Photography, Happenings and Performance. Formal, aesthetic aspects of work will be examined along with the historic and cultural events that inform the art.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
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