Modernism, Post-Modernism, and the 'Primitive'
In this course we will examine ideas of "otherness" central to the development of modernist and post-modernist painting, sculpture and photography in Europe and the United States. We will study how such artists as Picasso, Emile Nolde and Man Ray interpreted so-called "primitive" art through a modernist lens, and explore their sources in the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Close attention will be payed to the role of photographs and exhibitions in constructing and disseminating ideas about non-Western objects and peoples, drawing on our own experiences with the College museum's exhibition, "Resonance from the Past." 3 hrs. lect.