Art History 280 - COLQ:ART HIST ST: GLOBAL ART

Topics course. Students may take up to four semesters of ARH 280 Art Historical Studies, as long as the topics are different. This course unites the `centers and peripheries' of modernist art history. In doing so, we provincialize Euro-American modernisms and trace how movements, like Impressionism, Orientalism and Abstraction, manifested globally. We problematize the common misconception that these movements were "belated" or "derivative," and instead investigate the parallel ways modernisms in places like Turkey, Japan and Nigeria responded to shared philosophical, political and technological developments. Primary sources, classic texts and new scholarship on global modernisms pair with museum visits to develop students' skills of critical visual analysis and equip them with a vocabulary to discuss modern art, anywhere in the world. (E)

Topic: Centers & Peripheries: Global Art 1850-1950.