760-231 Radical Perspectives in 20th Century Art

Formerly available as 760-231 Modernist Art and Culture. Students who have previously completed 760-231 Modernist Art and Culture are not eligible to enrol in this subject. A minimum of 80% attendance at lectures and seminars is required for assesment in this subject. BA students may credit this subject to an art history major.

12.5 points of Art History and Culture at first year level or equivalent.

Lecture topics and subject content will be selected from the following: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Joris-Karl Huysmans, Symbolism and the Theories of Mario Praz and Carlo Lentricchia; Antoni Gaudi and Alternative Architecture; Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Pablo Picasso and Cubism; Tristan Tzara and the Dadaist Spirit of Revolt; Andre Breton, Surrealism and the Psychology of the Imagination; Art and the Impact of Photography; Clement Greenburg, Kitsch and Pop Art; Jackson Pollock, Carl Jung and Abstract Expressionism; Feminism and Frida Kahlo; Francis Bacon and Existentialism; Irving Goffman and the Sculptural Tableaux of the 1970s.

A seminar presentation of up to one hour equivalent to 1500 words on a selected topic; and submission of a research paper of 2500 words.