A survey on the evolution of the idea of avant-garde art and its implications for imagining artists and artworks as agents of historical change. Students will learn how art worked as a space of both support and resistance to the period’s dramatic historical changes. We will discuss the impacts that developments in the fields of science, linguistics, and literature had in art production in Europe between 1850 and 1930. This class adopts a social perspective to the study of art as it introduces students to other theories such as feminist and decolonial art history.
- Teacher: Paloma Checa-Gismero