Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 58

Modern Art and Modernity
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Maria Gough and Benjamin Buchloh
Tuesday/Thursday 10:30-11:45am
The course examines the defining moments in the development of modern European and American art from the eighteenth- through to the twentieth-century. Anchored by a significant date, each lecture focuses on the relationship between a major artistic event and the social, political, cultural, and technological conditions of its emergence. A wide range of media, from painting, sculpture, and print-making to photography, photomontage, video, installation, and performance art, will be considered. Situating the key aesthetic transformations that defined art's modernity in a broader historical context, the course explores the fundamental role of advanced forms of artistic practice in the formation of modern culture and society.