After analyzing the invention of cubism by Picasso and Braque, this course examines its international reverberations, including Italian futurism, the later phases of German expressionism, constructivism in revolutionary Russia, Art Nouveau and the Dadaism. It addresses the tensions in the multiple currents of surrealism: metamorphic, academic, and abject, and then analyzes painting after World War II, from Pollock to Dubuffet, as an extension and transformation of prewar trends. The course utilizes the contemporary arts collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Menil Collection, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
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