ARTH 2080 - Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARTH 1600 AND ARTH 1700 with C- or better or permission of department

Description: Students in this course study modern and contemporary art from 1900 to the present. Major critical, intellectual, and aesthetic frameworks are introduced and artistic movements are situated in relation to their cultural contexts. Shifting conceptual definitions of art provide a foundation for understanding contemporary practices, and thus a focus is placed on avant-garde forms of art throughout the period. Students are also introduced to critical debates about art arising out of civil rights, postmodernism, postcolonialism, transnationalism, and globalism.