4.41: Key Characteristics of Art- 1900 to the Present
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Identify and describe key characteristics and defining events of art from 1900 to the present
Learning Activities
The learning activities for this section include:
- Reading: Cubism and Picasso’s Still Life with Chair Caning
- Video: Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913, Abstract Expressionism
- Reading: British Art and Literature During WWI
- Reading: Italian Futurism: An Introduction
- Reading: Dada and Surrealism
- Reading: Art in Nazi Germany
- Reading: The Origins of Abstract Expressionism
- Reading: Photography
- Reading: Contemporary Art
- Reading: Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe
- Reading: Conceptual Art
- Reading: Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document
- Reading: Appropriation (The “Pictures Generation”)
Take time to review and reflect on each of these activities in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.