This course explores key artists, movements, theories, centers and works of modern art, and situates them within the political, economic, social, technological, scientific, and historical contexts that shaped modernity. Organized chronologically, it surveys international art movements, starting with Impressionism in the 1870s and concluding with conceptual and performance art in the late 1970s, and critically examines their cross-cultural and global character. It also considers how new techniques, materials, styles and subjects – most notably class, gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and indigeneity-challenged the established definitions and institutions of art and made visible a world constantly changing.