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CAAC 208 - Art of the 20th Century


Semester Hours: 3
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A conceptual as well as stylistic overview of the major movements in painting, especially in Europe, since the avant-garde challenges to academic representation of the later 19th century. The formative role of French art and the emergence of rival centers; a crisis of abstraction and figuration between the World Wars; postwar rivalry with America; conceptualism; neo-expressionism; the lingering problem of modernism.

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(Formerly HUM.)


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