A survey emphasizing the concepts entailed in the various styles of 20th century European painting; concentration on the major movements in European painting since post-impressionism. Emphasis on the foundational role of the School of Paris, but also on the emergence of abstraction in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union; rationalist and irrationalist alternatives; response to American ascendancy after World War II; later modernism and  postmodernism; problematics of nationalism and internationalism.

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