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    20th Century Art

    As taught in: Fall 2002

    A tremendous orange cloth being hoisted into the air by teams of workers.

    Christo and Jean-Claude. Valley Curtain Project, Rifle Gap, Colorado, 1970-72. (Image courtesy the National Archives and Records Administration. ARC Identifier: 544851.)

    Instructors:

    Prof. Caroline Jones

    MIT Course Number:

    4.651

    Level:

    Undergraduate

    Course Description

    Critical examination of major developments in European and American art during the past century. Surveys art's engagements with modernization, radical politics, utopianism, mass culture, changing conceptions of mind and human nature, new technologies, colonialism and postcolonialism, and other significant aspects of recent history.