107-039 Difference and Modernity

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Usually 12.5 points of first year Art History

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Subject Description

This subject explores aspects of identity and experience that have been marginalised or suppressed within histories of modernist art on the grounds of their difference. These may include gender, ethnicity, religion, mental illness, physical and intellectual disability, and sexuality. As well as expanding the possibilities of cultural responses to modernity, the subject will also consider the limits of dominant modernist aesthetics and art history; that is, artistic practices not included in orthodox accounts of modern art. Revisionist critiques of modernism will reconsider such received histories will exploring the implications of recent theory for art history.

Assessment

A classpaper of 2000 words, and an essay of 2000 words.

Prescribed Texts

• B Fer et al, Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art between the Wars. Yale University Press 1993.
• C Harrison et al, Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century. Yale university Press 1993.
• C Harrison & P Wood, Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Blackwell 1993.
• S Kern, The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918. Harvard University Press 1983.
• R Whol, The Generation of 1914. Harvard University Press 1979.