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