Modern Art and Mass Culture

Caroline Jones’s MIT course on the running argument between fine art and mass culture — how modern and postmodern artists absorbed, resisted, and critiqued the popular across painting, photography, performance, and video. A reading-and-writing course in art criticism proper: the syllabus, readings, and assignments are all published, and they bite.

Syllabus

modernism and the avant-garde
fine art versus popular culture
photography and performance
postmodern criticism

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