Art History 116: Topics in Modern & Contemporary Art



Art History 116: Topics in Modern & Contemporary Art

Global Modernisms: Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Monday 1:30-4:20 PM

Kadema 113

Elaine O’Brien, Ph.D.

Hours: M & Th 4:30-6pm

Office: Kadema 190

eobrien@csus.edu



Seminar description:

It is a tenet of art history that in the modern period European painting, sculpture, architecture, and design were fundamentally transformed by non-Western art. What we will study in this class is the other half of the story of modern art. By the end of the 19th century European avant-garde modernism had journeyed to cosmopolitan centers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Through seminar readings and discussions, we will come to understand modern art as a global phenomenon, not merely Western, and more astonishingly radical than we knew.

Prerequisite: one of the following courses: Art 1B (Renaissance to the Present), Art 109 (Modern Art), Art 111 (Latin American & Latino/a), or permission of instructor

NOTE: You are required to attend one hour of the art history symposium, Visual> ................
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