Native and Cosmopolitan Modernisms: American and European Art Between the Two World Wars

This seminar focuses on two contrasting currents within American and European modernism between the two world wars: native and cosmopolitan. Alternating between the United States and France, the content of this course begins in the years before World War I and concludes with the rise of virulent forms of cultural nationalism during the late 1930s. We consider the subjects, personalities, aesthetic strategies, and political and social investments associated with these alternative modernisms, which are linked to a search for roots on the one hand and to a desire for forms of spatial and social mobility on the other. By comparing the "homegrown" and expatriate experiences, we will consider divergent attitudes toward identity, gender, nation, time, and nature, analyzing these two fundamental responses to modernity in relation to one another. Prerequisites: L01 113 or L01 215, or permission of instructor. One 300-level course in Art History preferred.
Course Attributes: FA AH; EN H; BU Hum; BU IS; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM; AH MEA

Native and Cosmopolitan Modernisms: American and European Art Between the Two World Wars

ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 4770

Section 01