The Rise of Modernism in Europe and North America
Chapter 28
Art History 2nd Edition- Marilyn Stokstad
Modernism is far from a precise term--in art history or any other aspect of history. Chief objectives for this chapter include: grasping the unifying aspects of the period from 1880 to 1970, and understanding the essential features of each of a number of movements within the developments contained by this time period.
Goals for this chapter include:
Goals for this chapter include:
- Recognize that Impressionism engendered a range of critical reactions and
identify the essential features of each of these reactions as contained within
the broad term, Post-Impressionism.
- Identify those aspects of early modernism that were pushed at least in part
by resentment towards the developments of modern industrialism.
- Categorize the works and artists talked about in this chapter into one of
the two major poles of modernism: formalism and expressionism.
- Understand the centrality of Cubism and German Expressionism to the
foundation of twentieth-century modernism.
- Recognize the aesthetic basis of the "invention" and development of
non-representational art.
- Recognize new techniques in both painting and sculpture, particularly
collage and construction.
- Watch the emergence of a new aesthetic in architecture--an aesthetic that
placed fully realized function in the realm of the beautiful.
- Observe the relationship between modern psychoanalysis and art--especially
in the realm of Surrealism.
- Witness the growth of regionalism and a documentary impulse in American art
between the wars.
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