ARTHI6C

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ARTHI 6C - Art Survey III: Modern-Contemporary Art

History of Art and Architecture College of Letters and Science

Full Course Title

Art Survey III: Modern-Contemporary Art

Course Description

Introduction to the modern era of Western art history, focusing on European and American histories. It begins reviewing the 18th-century European Enlightenment: scientific inquiry and new forms of representation are the models for the course. Proceeding through the 19th-century histories of colonization and land grabs, and then move to the 20th-century, focusing on the rise of urbanism, migration, and new developments in abstract art; additional focus on ethnicity, race, sexuality and gender across the Arts & Crafts Movement, and the rise of internationalism and global art histories in the 21st-century, ending the course by examining the present time period.

Unit Value

5

Maximum number of times course can be repeated for additional credit

0

Maximum Units

5

Advisory Enrollment Comments

ARTHIW 6C is the online version of ARTHI 6C.

General Subject Areas

F, E

Special Subject Areas

EUR, WRT