American Art to 1970

From the beginnings of modernism in the visual arts of the United States, around 1900, to Abstract Expressionism and the Beat aesthetic. Focus on the cultural reception and spread of modernism, native currents of modernist expression, from organicism to machine imagery, the mural movement and the art of the WPA, the creation of a usable past, abstraction and figuration, regionalism and internationalism, photography and advertising.
Course Attributes: FA AH; EN H; BU Hum; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR SSC; AH MEA

American Art to 1970

AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES 372

Section 01