course description

This lecture course surveys the most important and interesting art produced in the United States or by American artists living abroad up through the 1950s. This period encompasses the history of both early and modern art in the U.S.

While tracking this history, the course examines art's relation to historical processes of modernization (industrialization, the development of transportation and communications, the spread of corporate organization in business, urbanization, technological development, the rise of mass media and mass markets, etc.) and to the economic polarization, social fragmentation, political conflict, and the cultural changes these developments entailed.

 In these circumstances, art is drawn simultaneously toward truth and fraud, realism and artifice, science and spirituality, commodification and ephemerality, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, individualism and collectivity, the past and the future, professionalization and popularity, celebrating modern life and criticizing it.

课程介绍

本课程介绍了20世纪50年代美国艺术家创作的最重要和最有趣的艺术作品，这个时期包括美国早期和现代艺术的历史。

在追踪这段历史的同时，本课程将探讨艺术与现代化的历史进程(工业化、交通和通讯的发展、企业组织在商业中的传播、城市化、技术发展、大众传媒和大众市场的兴起、等等)以及这些发展带来的经济两极分化、社会分裂、政治冲突和文化变化。在这种情况下，艺术能够同时涵盖真理和欺骗、现实主义和诡计、科学和灵性、商品化和短暂性、民族主义和世界主义、个人主义和集体主义、过去和未来、专业化和流行，赞美现代生活与批判现代生活。

课程时间：6月30日-8月5日

入学资格：

- 在线申请

- GPA 3.3以上

- 个人essay

- 推荐信

- 托福

截止日期：4月1日