EUT 450E - Inter. Btwn.20th Cen.Art & Des

Course Objectives

1. To introduce the major -ism s of art history in the 20th century Europe and US
2. To teach to identify the influence of these movements on art
3. To compare the developments in art and design in the same period and find its contextual
reasons

Course Description

A revolt against all forms of naturalism: the quest for subjectivist and objectivistic solutions,
psychoanalysis, primitivism, discovery ofnon-European cultures, Fauvism, Matisse, German
Expressionism, The Blue Rider, Cubism, Futurism, total abstraction and impact of photography;
interwar years: Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism, the International style, Frank Lloyd
Wright, The Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, art and revolution,Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art,
Minimal and Conceptual art, Photorealism, Modernism and Post Modernism.