The Art Architecture Of The Long Century

AY2017/2018 Semester 1

This course charts the evolution of painting, sculpture and architecture (select examples will be taken taken from Britain, USA, France, Spain, Italy and Germany) from the era of the French and American Revolutions to the end of the First World War and the advent of the Jazz Age. It demonstrates how art, architecture, criticism and consumption changed in this time, and suggests reasons for why this happened. The course observes too, the changing role of the artist, the critic, and the viewer. Masterpieces of painting, sculpture, architecture and criticism will be selected from the following `isms? for closer examination: Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Aestheticism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Art Nouveau, Futurism, Vorticism and Dada. The shift of Modernism from Paris to New York, and its dramatic arrival in the Armory Show, takes the student through to the final lectures which investigate how art was used to memorialize the first global conflict, to `invent? memory for future generations, and to catalyze the process of convalescence. In essence, this course places major movements in art and architecture within a wider context of historical, political and social change, in which adaptation and survival were interdependent. Students are reminded that ADM rules on attendance and plagiarism are in operation within all ADM courses as laid out in the ADM Student handbook http://www.adm.ntu.edu.sg/CurrentADM/Documents/ADMStudentHandbook2010-2011.pdf.