Varieties of Modernism Tate Modern
Date: 17-05-2008
Subject(s): Art History
Course(s): A216
AA318
Prerequisites:
Tutor/Guide: Ron Matthews
We shall be discussing the “avant-garde” between the two World Wars and immediately following World War II and the ideological extremes which had developed in Europe. Debates of the time revolved around the question of the purpose of art and its role in society. The culmination of modern art was seen by Clement Greenberg to be American Abstract Expressionism, especially the work of Jackson Pollock.
Since the 1970s revisionist art history has shown that the Modernist view of the autonomy of art was, as everything else, shaped by society. Artists to be considered in detail will be Picasso, Dalí, Miro, Leger and Fougeron.
Members £8. Member’s guest £10. Start
2.00pm
. Finish
4.00pm
approx
Meet by Information desk, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, SE1