THE MANIFESTO MODERN ART 1900-1925
History OF Art WHAT is IT?
INTRODUCTION PRIMITIVISM FAUVISM
Futurism VORTICISM CUbisM Purism
ART & POLITICS Pre/post-WWI
GERMAN ExpressIONISM DA Da
This course is a whistle-stop tour of the sweeping speed of artistic activity between the turn of the century and 1925. There are no fewer than 50 Artists' Manifestoes (and probably a good many more) that were composed during this 25-year period. It's a lively, urgent, dangerous and tragic quarter century shaped largely by the ascent and nadir of WWI. Technology, speed, the motor-car, arms manufacturing, empire-building and revolution produce a series of events, from which we're still reeling 100 years later.
Up until Art production and the philosophical thoughts and ideas more to come
Up until Art production and the philosophical thoughts and ideas more to come