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HAD-634 Origins of Abstraction 1900-1930

3 Credits

  • HAD-634-01

    Wednesday

    2:00 pm – 4:50 pm

    Main Building, 214

At the tum of the twentieth century, non-figurative imagery emerged for the first time in the history of art. This course explores the development of abstraction in art and theory in Europe and the United States from 1900 through the 1920s. Emphasis is placed on the defining moments of transition from representation to the non-objective within each artist's oeuvre. Abstraction will be considered in conjunction with essential inter-disciplinary influences from science, spiritualism, politics, music and dance, and folk and decorative arts.