In the year 2000, twentieth-century art will be drawing to a
close.  The course will deal with selected artists and topics
from the last one hundred years.  In addition to the standard
succession of art movements and art "stars" (Pablo Picasso,
Salvador Dali, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol), we will consider
the attempts of twentieth-century artists to adapt traditional
art forms like painting and sculpture to the conditions of an
industrialized society and a mass culture.  Key periods of focus
will be the years of painterly experiment between 1905 to 1913,
the projects to "reform" art in the 1920s, the rise of American
painting in the 1950s, and the emergence of protest art in the
1960s and 1970s, (anti-war art, environmental art, feminist art,
African-American art).

Required reading: Selected articles, available in course pack.
Study materials on web page.  Three essay exams.