Course Description
AHI 185: Avant-Gardism and Its Aftermath (4)
1917–1960
Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in art history, or upper division standing and a major or minor in the arts or humanities recommended. Social, cultural, aesthetic, and theoretical development for artists and their audiences in the context of larger issues like the Mexican, Russian and German revolutions, WWI, the Depression, WWII, etc., and a critical-theoretical inquiry into questions of modernism, modernity, and avant-gardism.
GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt | AH, VL, WC, WE.—IV. (IV.)