Art in the 1920s and 1930s: Western art between the wars

City Lit

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    London

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    Different dates available

After the First World War, artists responded to the massive changes wrought, in a wide variety of ways: from the Freudian inspired visions of the Surrealists, the geometric abstract art of Russia and de Stijl, and the realist styles in Germany and America.
Find out how politics and propaganda played a part in the realist art movements in the US as well as Eastern Europe while other artists moved closer to abstraction.

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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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• Identify and describe the work of one artist from each style of this period
• Describe one way in which art responded to each political situation in selected countries between the wars
• Compare and contrast the development of abstraction and realism in painting at this time.

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  • Art

Course programme

- Setting the scene: the interwar period
- Dada and Surrealism
- German New Objectivity
- Soviet Constructivism
- De Stijl
- American and Socialist Realism.

You will be taught with short lectures, discussions, and guided tasks. You might wish to bring a notebook. You might wish to buy some of the books on any reading list given out in class. You might be interested in: VB 809- Art in the 1920s and 1930s: architecture and design Which follows on from this course. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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Art in the 1920s and 1930s: Western art between the wars

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