Semester Hours: 3This is a survey emphasizing the concepts entailed in the various styles of 20th-century European painting, with a concentration on the major movements in European painting since post-impressionism. There is an emphasis on the foundational role of the School of Paris, and 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; and problematics of nationalism and internationalism.