Showing 4 courses for the subject Art History
Art, Revolution and Crisis
ARTH102
How has art changed the world? This course introduces students to the ways art has responded to political, cultural, social, environmental and technological revolutions over the past 250 years. We examine how art anticipates and interrogates the defi...
Questioning Modernity
ARTH205
This course explores how artists responded to the experience of modernity from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It examines individual and collective efforts to develop new visual vocabularies to make sense of a world of contingency ...
Cultures of Surrealism
ARTH301
This course looks at the work of artists, writers and critics associated with surrealism and its legacies. It will analyse the cultures of surrealism, exploring their relation to previous artistic and cultural movements, polemics within the surrealis...
Art and the Cold War
ARTH302
This course focuses on the visual arts from the post-WWII period to the end of the 1970s. It looks at the fate of modernism and avant-garde art in an era characterised by the ideological conflict between the capitalist West and communist East, decolo...
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