Dan Hackbarth, Lecturer

Tuesday and Thursday, 3:40–5:00pm, ARTS Screening Room 335

Department of the History of Art Spring ‘17

For more information on the Department of the History of Art, visit: http://arthistory.ucr.edu

Top: Hannah Hoch, The Beautiful Girl, 1920.

Right: Aleksandr Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova with a Compass, 1924

AHS 181 takes a thematic approach to the fascinating new art forms that

emerged in Europe between 1870 and 1945. Each lecture will focus on one

topic of central importance both to modern art and to our lives in 2017.

These topics include: technology; fascism; cultural appropriation; spirituality; war; city, country, and suburban

life; and Eurocentrism and globalism. Within each of these themes we will examine several different movements

(such as Impressionism, Dadaism, and Surrealism) and mediums (including painting, sculpture, photography,

and architecture). Throughout the course we will investigate the active role modern art has played in politics

and social struggles. We will also regularly consider examples of contemporary art that draws upon these early

artistic experiments. As a result, students will leave AHS 181 able to address an array of challenging material

including abstraction, performance, and experimental media.

AHS 181 — CRN 50022

MODERN ART:

1870 - 1945