HAA 1400 Special Topics Modern - The American in American Art

(offered infrequently)

This course explores the relationship between the development of modern art and the formation of national identity in the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century. Artwork will be discussed within the context of contemporary debates regarding art's status as modern and/or American. We will address the role of racial, national and gender identity in the struggle to define a truly American art. Among those artists and thinkers that we will consider are: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keefe, Marsden Hartley, Marcel Duchamp, Stuart Davis, Meyer Schapiro, Thomas Craven, Thomas Hart Benton, Jackson Pollock and Clement Greenberg.