Introduction to European Avant-Garde, 1880-1940
ARHA 241
Fall 2025
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01
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| Crosslisting:
RL&L 241, GRST 241 |
This course introduces students to the major avant-garde art movements from the first half of the 20th century as they took root in France, Germany, Italy, Holland, and Russia. Our focus will be on painting, but we will also look at attempts to go beyond painting in an attempt to gain greater immediacy or social relevance for art. Topics that will receive special emphasis include the relationship between abstraction and figuration, the impact of primitivism and contact with non-Western arts, modernism's relationship to mass culture, war and revolution, gender and representation, art and dictatorship, and the utopian impulse to have the arts redesign society as a whole. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (Art History Minor)(Art History)(Art Studio)(College of Letters)(French Studies Minor)(French Studies)(German Studies Minor)(German Studies)(Romance Studies) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
1. Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, ART SINCE 1900: MODERNISM, ANTIMODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM, VOL. 1: 1900-1944. 3rd ed. Thames and Hudson, 2005. ISBN: 978-0-500-29271-6
2. Herschel Chipp, THEORIES OF MODERN ART. University of California Press, 1984. ISBN-10: 0520052560 ISBN-13: 978-0520052567
3. Articles and book chapters made available via ereserve.
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Examinations and Assignments:
4-page paper, 8-page paper, midterm and final exams, peer critique, in-class participation. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
1. The instructor uses the enrollment request system and does not respond to emails prior to the beginning of class. Students who do not attend the first day of class will be dropped from the enrollment list.
2. Prospective Wesleyan students can visit this class. |
| Instructor(s): Kuenzli,Katherine Times: .M.W... 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 3 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 4 | FR: 3 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 7 | 1st Ranked: 5 | 2nd Ranked: 2 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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