This unit provides an in-depth investigation into the major modernist movement of the twentieth century. It charts how Braque and Picasso challenged the passivity of Impressionism and the naivety of Primitivism with a new fragmentary style responsive to the disorientations of industrial modernity and mass consumerism. It then charts the transformations of Analytic and Synthetic Cubism after 1914 into other French and European art movements until its eventual appropriations in Asia, Africa and the Americas. -- Course Website
Prerequisites: any Level 2 History of Art core unit
