Semester Hours:3Every other year
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.