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VIS 125C. Modern Art in the West, 1850–1950 (4 units)

Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/VIS.html#vis125c

Description

What is the place of visual art in modern Western culture? This course will address visual art and radical politics in Courbet and the generation of 1848; Impressionism, Paris, and the cult of la vie moderne; Gauguin, Van Gogh, and the quest for “visionary” painting; Cezanne and the reformulation of painting in terms of pure sensation; the divergent paths of Matisse and Picasso in 1906. The twentieth century follows the emergence of different interpretations of modernity in the USSR, Germany, and France. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

Prerequisite courses

VIS 125C has no prerequisite courses.

Successor courses

No courses have VIS 125C as a prerequisite.