Modern & contemporary art

pt. 1: The historic avant-gardes. The fauves at the Salon d'Automne: wild beasts or children?

Pastorales and primitive nudes: Matisse between 1905 and 1907

Picasso and the "idols": the proto-cubist period

Die brucke: a manifesto aimed at "the new generation of artists and connoisseurs"

Blue knights: Kandinsky and the "spiritual" avant-garde

"An enormous unexpected toy": futurism in Italy and Europe

Leading figures in the historic avant-gardes: Wassily Kandinsky; Henri Matisse; Emil Nolde; Paul Klee; André Derain; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; Franz Marc; Carlo Carrà; Fernand Léger; Pablo Picasso; Urnberto Boccioni; Georges Braque; Robert Delaunay; Oskar Kokoschka; Juan Gris

Themes, styles, and movements in the historic avant-gardes: Nymphs, amazons, and bathers: primitivist nudes en plein air, 1907-09; Images and words: Matisse, Braque, Picasso; A new "hieroglyph": Der Blaue Reiter

pt. 2: Between the two wars. Images, industry, politics, revolutions

National contexts: Mediterranean myths, Nordic realities

Art, architecture, communities: "abstraction," symbols, and myths

New objectivity

Masquerades and archetypes

Leading figures between the two wars: Piet Mondrian; Constantin Brancusi; Kazimir Malevich; Francis Picabia; Felice Casorati; Chaim Soutine; Max Beckmann; Mario Sironi; Hans Arp; Marcel Duchamp; Giorgio de Chirico; Man Ray; Giorgio Morandi; Otto Dix; Alberto Savinio; Max Ernst; George Grosz; Joan Miró Christian Schad; Filippo de Pisis; Andre Masson; Rene Magritte; Scipione; Alberto Giacometti

Themes, styles, and movements between the two wars: The modem movement in architecture; Architecture and lifestyle: the "machine for living"; Le Corbusier the city planner; From utopia to industrial design: the Bauhaus; The mass-produced object; Frank Lloyd Wright: the modem movement and regional architecture; Photography as science and art; The photographic book; Social anthologies; Paris by night; Modernism and documentary photography in the United States: Edward Weston, Paul Strand; Participative viewpoints: Tina Modotti

pt. 3: The informal decade. Informel, Art Brut: explorations and restlessness

Paris / New York

The development of an American idiom

An American art

Leading figures in the informal decade: Lucio Fontana; Willem de Kooning; Mark Rothko; Francis Bacon; Arshile Gorky; Alberto Burri; Jackson Pollock

pt. 4: The neo-avant-gardes

From the 1960s to today

Kinetic, Neo-Dada, and Pop Art: processes, institutions, and the street

Minimalism

Seriality and repetition in photography

Anti-form, earthworks, and land art

Texts, performances, collective projects: the conceptual decade

Late conceptualism and new figuration

A civic, environmental, post -colonial agenda: contemporary neo-conceptual tendencies

Leading figures in the neo-avant-gardes: Joseph Beuys; Andy Warhol; Robert Rauschenberg; Cy Twombly; On Kawara; Jasper Johns; Piero Manzoni; Frank Stella; Hans Haacke; Robert Smithson; Alighiero Boetti; Susan Hiller; Bruce Nauman; Robert Morris; Richard Long; Anselm Kiefer; Francesco Clemente; Roni Hom; Jeff Koons.