ARTH 3790 - Photography and Modernism

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARTH 2080 or ARTH 3080 with “C-” or better; or permission of department

Description: This course examines relationships between photography, modernity as a social condition, and modernism as an artistic movement. The study is broad in scope, including photographs from the late 19^th century through the 21^st century, but takes a thematic approach. Case studies of particular photographs, movements, and exhibitions provide course content, and students relate images to scholarly articles on the social, aesthetic, and political context of modernism and modernity. Critical approaches to modernism, including postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism, are also explored and related to contemporary practices in photographic art.