Course Description: Modern art, its diversity, tentativeness as well as its revolutionary attitude towards stylistic traditions

Course Topics:

• Modernity and modernism
• Framing the study of the Western art survey
• Western art survey
  •  Impressionism  and Post-Impressionism
  • Symbolism, Fauvism, and German Expressionism
  • Cubism, Orphism, and Purism
  • Futurism and Dada
  • Suprematism and Constructivism
  • Neue Sachlichkeit
  • Surrealism
  • De Stijl, Neoplasticism, and the Bauhaus
  • The Armory Show and the Great Depression
  • European Post-War Expressionism, American Abstract Expressionism, and Post-Painterly Abstraction
  • Pop Art
• Modernism's aporia
• The othering of the rest of the world
• Multiple modernisms
• Cases in other artforms