WEEK # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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1 | Avant-garde | |
2 | Manifesto of the Communist Party (1872) | |
3 | Futurism | Oral presentations |
4 | Eisenstein |
First essay outline due in class |
5 | Kandinsky (1886-1944) | Oral presentations |
6-7 | Mass Culture and Woman |
Oral presentations by one student |
8 | Autonomous Art Movements & the Historical Avant-garde | Oral presentations |
9 | Georges Bataille (1897-1962) | Second essay outline due in class |
10 | Mary Ann Caws, "The Poetics of the Manifesto: Nowness and Newness." | Oral presentations Second essay due (at end of week) |
11 | Theory of the Avant-garde (Bürger, 1974) | Third essay outline due in class Oral presentations |
12 | Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) | Oral Presentations |