Collage: Evolution of a Modern Medium
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Level: Undergraduate
Division: The New School for Public Engagement
School: School of Undergraduate Studies
Department: Humanities
Course Number: NARH 3755
Course Format: Lecture
Location: NYC campus
Permission Required: No
Topics: - Art History, Theory & Criticism
Description:
The term collage was coined around 1910 to describe certain Cubist experiments by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Since then, collage has remained a central and vital practice in the development of modern and contemporary art. This course examines the hundred-year history of this medium and its deployment by artists associated with Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Assemblage, Pop Art, and other movements. Readings address collage as a formal innovation, a political critique, a reflection of media saturation, and an expression of cultural hybridity. In presentations and final papers, students examine the collage-based practices of contemporary artists.
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