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ART 302 MODERN ART AND THEORY
Description: A study of the major artistic movements and concomitant theories in Modern Art from c. 1880 to WW II. Beginning with late nineteenth-century modernism, we will closely examine the historical, societal, cultural, philosophical, political, economic, and theoretical frameworks from which modern art and theory emerged. Throughout the semester we will consider the broader question of modernity itself and its transformation through a time of radical technological and social change. Although we will concentrate on art, we will also discuss and analyze modernism in terms of music, theater, literature, architecture, and film. We will invariably conduct our analysis through the apparatus of critical theory (psychoanalysis, Marxism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and deconstruction) and related theoretical strategies. Requirements: Students will be given specific reading assignments which they will be expected to have read before class; failure to do so will greatly compromise students’ ability to follow lectures, and eventually, to do well on quizzes and tests. There will be 4 quizzes as well as a midterm and final. The quizzes and tests will involve historical and theoretical questions and/or term definitions. Quizzes and tests will be based on both lectures and readings. The final will not be cumulative. Grading will break down, roughly: Quizzes: 50% (12.5% each); Midterm: 25%; Final: 25%. Attendance: I strongly advise attending each class because what is being presented is not a repetition of a text but an interpretation of images and ideas, the culture and history that shaped them and that they in turn shaped and expressed. It will not be possible to reconstruct lectures from the assigned readings. Furthermore, there will not be an opportunity to makeup unexcused missed quizzes. Failure to attend class will make it extremely unlikely that you will do well in the course. |
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