The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

Click the image for a short interactive piece on this famous print by Hokusai: Course description: This is a survey of avant-garde modern art from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth ...

Loosely bracketed between the years 1917 and 1999, this course is specifically interested in examining art and visual culture in relation to the twentieth century's negotiation of utopian political ...