#  HAA 177M - Manet to Man Ray: Modern Art and Its Colonial Matrix 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2021 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 

 

 

 

 Maria Gough

 Intersection of modern art, colonialism, and imperial violence. Select episodes/aspects between 1860s-1930s, focusing on but not limited to the Scramble for Africa and the Soviet recalibration of the Imperial Russian Empire in Central Asia. Key topics: Surrealism’s anti-colonial exhibition of 1931; Soviet photo expeditions in Central Asia; Neoprimitivism in Russia, Caucuses, & Central Asia; Picasso, colonialism, and Communism; Matisse & Islamic/North African textiles; Manet’s Execution of Emperor Maximilian (French intervention in Mexico); Fénéon’s collection of African art, etc.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Fall 2021 ](/class-term/fall-2021)