This course will consider various aspects of modernism as it arose in France, Germany, Russia,
and other European countries in the period from 1900 through the early 1920s.  Among the
recurring themes and topics will be the following: the phenomenon of "primitivism," responses to
scientific discoveries and technological change, attempts to identify and depict a radically
transformed modern consciousness (and, in some cases, attempts to reshape human behavior and
physiology), and the persistent critiques of the institution of art, especially in the post World War
I period.

Capriccio im Februar, 1938, Paul Klee   The focus is on painting and sculpture, with some
attention to architecture.  Matisse,
Picasso, Leger, Delaunay, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich, and Duchamp will be examined in
depth, but the course will include many other artists, including some of the women artists of the
period, e.g., Sonia Delaunay, Gabriele Munter,
Kathe Kollwitz, Natalia Goncharova.

Assignments: 3 essay exams (separate requirements for graduate students)
Readings: Selections from Dictionary of Art (on-line), coursepack