A survey of early 20th-century modern art until World War II. The development of philosophical and formalist abstract painting, sculpture and environments will be considered along with innovations in collage, photomontage, photography, avant-garde cinema and experimental literature. Primitivism's links to colonialism are examined, as are widespread interests in psychoanalysis and esoteric spirituality. Utopian and politically engaged art is compared with the emerging totalitarian art practices of the mid-1930s.
A survey of early 20th-century modern art until World War II. The development of philosophical and formalist abstract painting, sculpture and environments will be considered along with innovations in collage, photomontage, photography, avant-garde cinema and experimental literature. Primitivism's links to colonialism are examined, as are widespread interests in psychoanalysis and esoteric spirituality. Utopian and politically engaged art is compared with the emerging totalitarian art practices of the mid-1930s.
