The painting Liberty Leading The People (1830), perhaps the most influential work of artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). (This image is in the public domain. Source: Web Gallery of Art.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Caroline Jones
MIT Course Number
4.602
As Taught In
Spring 2012
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This class provides an introduction to modern art and theories of modernism and postmodernism. It focuses on the way artists use the tension between fine art and mass culture to mobilize a critique of both. We will examine objects of visual art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints, performance and video. These objects will be viewed in their interaction with advertising, caricature, comics, graffiti, television, fashion, folk art, and "primitive" art.
