The history of the avant-garde [ LHART2340 ]

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The course is centred on the artistic exchanges immediately before the First World War that were characteristic of an internationalisation of the avant-gardes. It examines the impact of the war and explores the new international landscape of the inter-war period. The issue of the indictment of avant-gardes by critics, by political regimes or even by the artists themselves is also covered.

To decompartmentalise the study of modern art movements by showing their interchanges, their convergences and their conflicts within an international setting.
 
 

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Oral presentation in class and oral examination.

Encounters between artworks and the documents that locate their reception within a national and international context.

All the movements characteristic of the period 1912-1937 may be mentioned : Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Rayonism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Socialist Realism, Metaphysical Painting, Purism, Verismo, Precisionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Regionalism, 'Naïve art', etc.

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