Global Modernisms
Examines modernist art movements in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe (c. 1900-1975), emphasizing Global South practices and interactions with Indigenous, diasporic, and cosmopolitan contexts.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Identify and differentiate major tendencies in global modernist art between approximately 1900 and 1975.
Compare related issues in modernist art across geographical, cultural, and historical boundaries.
Interpret works of global modernist art in written and spoken form using concepts derived from readings, lectures, and group discussions.
Critically evaluate advanced secondary literature and primary sources in the field of art history.
Source: UW Guide
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).
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Topics
- Indigenous, diasporic, and cosmopolitan practices; modernist primitivism
- Modernism's involvement in 20th-century revolutions and decolonization movements
- Nationalism, developmentalist ideologies, state support for arts, and Blackness as a transnational paradigm
- Emergence of global contemporary art from local art worlds
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- Identifying and differentiating major tendencies in global modernist art
- Comparing related issues in modernist art across geographical, cultural, and historical boundaries
- Interpreting works of global modernist art in written and spoken form
- Critically evaluating advanced secondary literature and primary sources in art history
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