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ARTH 172 Modern Art: 1890-1945 6 credits
This course explores developments in the visual arts, architecture, and theory in Europe and America between 1890 and 1945. The major Modernist artists and movements that sought to revolutionize vision, culture, and experience, from Symbolism to Surrealism, will be considered. The impact of World War I, the Great Depression, and the rise of fascism will be examined as well for their devastation of the Modernist dream of social-cultural renewal. Lectures will be integrated with discussions of artists’ theoretical writings and group manifestoes, such as those of the Futurists, Dadaists, Surrealists, Constructivists, and DeStijl, in addition to select secondary readings.
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ARTH 172.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 240 Art Since 1945 6 credits
Art from abstract expressionism to the present, with particular focus on issues such as the modernist artist-hero; the emergence of alternative or non-traditional media; the influence of the women’s movement and the gay/lesbian liberation movement on contemporary art; and postmodern theory and practice.
- Winter 2027
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2, Writing Rich 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One Art History (ARTH) course with a grade of C- better.
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ARTH 240.01 Winter 2027
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 245 Modern Architecture 6 credits
This course will trace major trends in western architecture from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to the dawn of the Cold War, concentrating especially on the decades from the 1870s through 1950s. We will discuss technological developments and stylistic issues in different cultural and political contexts, such as Chicago after the Great Fire and Berlin after the Great War. We will consider critiques of modern material culture, from the Arts & Crafts movement to Soviet Constructivism, analyze styles from Art Nouveau to Art Deco, and consider new building typologies such as train stations, department stores, and skyscraping office buildings.
- Fall 2026
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 245.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FBoliou 161 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ARTH 247 Architecture Since 1950 6 credits
This course begins by considering the international triumph of architecture’s Modern Movement as seen in key works by Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and their followers. Soon after modernism’s rise, however, architects began to question the movement’s tenets and the role that architecture as a discipline plays in the fashioning of society. This course will examine the central actors in this backlash from Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the United States and elsewhere before exploring the architectural debates surrounding definitions of postmodernism. The course will conclude by considering the impact of both modernism and postmodernism on contemporary architectural practice.
- Spring 2027
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 247.01 Spring 2027
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 270 Contemporary Art and Fiction 3 credits
“Art is a lie that reveals the truth,” according to Pablo Picasso. This course considers the range of contemporary art practices that capitalize on this notion. Artist-tricksters who create fictional avatars that question individual subjectivity; utopian visions of impossible-yet-plausible future worlds; fabricated documents of events that never happened; history paintings of imagined pasts that might have been. Students will explore these and other deceptions while probing the ways in which the resulting works reveal broader cultural truths. Ultimately, fiction will be offered as a category that oscillates between truth and falsity.
1st Five Weeks
- First Five Weeks, Spring 2027
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 270.01 First Five Weeks, Spring 2027
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 272 Contemporary Art and Non-Fiction 3 credits
In the contemporary era, artists increasingly turned toward research-based practices that attempted to unearth repressed truths and subject them to public scrutiny. This so-called “archival turn” has emerged as a key tactic among artists whose critical practices foreground the unvarnished truth. Parallel to these practices are a range of documentary photography, film, video, and digital media customs that similarly attempt to present the unvarnished truth to viewers. Art is not necessarily reportage, though, as all works of art are, ultimately, crafted fabrications. This course asks students to consider, then, where one might draw the line between non-fiction and fiction.
2nd Five Weeks
- Second Five Weeks, Spring 2027
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 272.01 Second Five Weeks, Spring 2027
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 341 Art and Democracy 6 credits
What does it mean to say that a work of art is “democratic?” For whom is art made? And who can lay claim to the title “artist?” These questions animate contemporary art production as artists grapple with the problems of broadening access to their works and making them more socially relevant. In this course we will consider the challenges involved in making art for a sometimes ill-defined “public.” Topics to be discussed include: activist performance art, feminism, public sculpture, the Culture Wars, queer visual culture, and the recent rise of social practice art.
Extra Time Required: There are two evening film screenings for this course, as well as one field trip to the Twin Cities (the Walker Art Center and/or a local arts organization in the Twin Cities).
- Fall 2026
- IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any two courses in ARTH with grades of C- or better.
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ARTH 341.01 Fall 2026
- Faculty: Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am