Clark Poling Postwar Paris Art and Anxiety

Anxiety and irony, humor and lyricism all appear in French art in reaction to the Second World War and its aftermath. Beginning with Pablo Picasso and other modern masters in the 1940s, this course studies new abstract art and its claim to start from zero (Jean Fautrier), the discovery of childrens and outsider art (Jean Dubuffet), inner and outer journeys to other shores of art (Antonin Artaud and Henri Michaux), existentialist meaning in the work of Alberto Giacometti, and surrealist and psychological aspects of French art in the 1940s and 1950s.

Clark Poling is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Emory University, where he served as chair of the Art History Department and director of the Michael C. Carlos Museum. He has taught summer courses on modern art in France and has written books and exhibition catalogues on the Bauhaus and on Surrealism. His book André Masson and the Surrealist Self appeared this summer.

Thursdays, April 2 - May 7
12:45 - 2:45 p.m.
Location: University Hall, 2199 Addison Street, Room 150

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