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1 | Introduction. |
2 | Karl Marx, "The Communist Manifesto." Marshall Berman, Introduction to All That Is Solid Melts into Air. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception." Igor Stravinsky, The Soldier's Tale, The Rake's Progress. Arnold Schönberg, Pierrot Lunaire. |
3 | Umberto Boccioni, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. Giacomo Balla, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. Ernst Jünger, The Storm of Steel. |
4 | Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin. Sergei Eisenstein, "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form." David Bordwell, The Cinema of Eisenstein, Selections. |
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6 | Vasilii Kandinsky, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. Kazimir Malevich, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. Paul Wood, "The Avant-Garde in the Early Twentieth Century," "Modernization," Avant-Gardism and Abstraction," and "Constructivism." Yve-Alain Bois, "Lissitzky, Malevich, and the Question of Space." Vladimir Mayakovsky, Selected Poems. Edward Brown, "Vladimir Mayakovsky: The Poet Engaged." |
7 | Fritz Lang, Metropolis. Andrew Hewitt, "Avantgarde and Technology." Andreas Huyssen, "Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other." |
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9 | Andrew Hewitt, "Avantgarde and Technology." Andreas Huyssen, "Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other." André Breton, Nadja. Hannah Höch, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. |
10 | Max Ernst, Une Semaine De Bonté. Paul Wood, "The Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism." Marcel Duchamp, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. John Heartfield, Selected Works, In-class Viewing. |
11 | Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye. Luis Buñuel, Un Chien Andalou. |
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13 | André Breton, The Surrealist Manifesto. Tristan Tzara, "Dada Manifesto." Antonin Artaud, "The Theater of Cruelty: First Manifesto." FT Marinetti, "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism." Mary Ann Caws, "The Poetics of the Manifesto: Nowness and Newness." |
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15 | Peter Bürger, "Theory of the Avant-Garde and Critical Literary Science." Bertolt Brecht, The Measures Taken. |
16 | Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." Samuel Beckett, Endgame. |