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PAINTING / PRINTMAKING, Painting 555a, Critical Perspectives: Art in Postwar Europe
C220 Green Hall W 6:00-8:30; first class meets 9/16/2009

A discussion of the nature of the postwar agon between Paris and New York, emphasizing contingency and circumstances—what happened where, and how circumstance contributed to distinctive developments. After the Second World War, Paris remained the axis of cultural and historical developments for Europeans. Most of the artists of the postwar generation positioned themselves in relation to France, even as they rebelled against it. Many artists, poets, painters, sculptors, essayists, and novelists spoke of beginning from “degree zero,” but in fact took up the challenges of early modernism as angry or ironic interlocutors. Meets biweekly for 1.5 credits. Dore Ashton

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