Browse Hierarchy SML5219: Other Ways of Seeing Modern Art

This module explores modern art from the perspective of the 'Other'. Images and artworks that have played a pivotal part in the cultural history of the Western world at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, in particular in France, Germany and Britain, will be analysed through the critical lenses of canon formation and of the politics of representations. The study of examples of 'otherness' as defined throughout the period, through categories such as women artists or non-Western artists, will enable a deconstruction of the concept of modernity and a redefinition of art as a social practice in dialogue with various forms of cultural expression. No prior academic experience of the discipline of art history is needed.