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Modernity, Modernism, Modernization
Lecture 1: Introduction to Theories of Modernism and Modernity
Lecture 2: Introduction to Theories of Mass Culture |
Discuss Readings and Video (View Excerpt in Recitation?) [Marxism's Blindness to Feminism; The Woman "Arranged for the Gaze," Conflation of Subject-in-Representation with the Real, Marxism as theory and interpretation as practice] |
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Post-Revolutionary France
Lecture 3: Eugéne Delacroix, or How to Imagine Liberty
Lecture 4: Caricature and the Safehouse of "High Art" |
View and Discuss Video: Pictures Beneath the Cobblestones: July 28, 1830, Liberty Leading the People
Discuss writing strategies for first paper |
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Realism and The Painting of Modern Life
Lecture 5: Courbet, Realism, and Popular Images |
Discuss Realism
How does allegory function in Courbet's Modernism? |
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Impressionism, Photography, Serialism
Lecture 6: Manet and Modernization
Lecture 7: The Impressionist Eye as Camera |
Discuss Clark's Concept of Urban Spectacle, and Baudelaire's Modernism
How do photography and fashion function for both thinkers? |
Paper 1 due |
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Modernist Anxiety: "Where are we going?"
Lecture 8: Serial Impressions (Print and Eye) |
Two Field Trips in place of Recitations |
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Primitivism / Woman / Mass Culture
Lecture 9: Woman and the Modern City
Lecture 10: European Orientalism and Gauguin's Skirt |
Exam Review and Preview (bring questions) |
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Cubo-Futurism and the Sign
Lecture 11: Picasso's Cubism: Politics and/or Semiosis
Lecture 12: Futurism's and Dadaism's Popular Mechanics |
Discuss the Persistence of Orientalism through early Picasso |
Midterm exam |
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Commodities
Lecture 12 (cont.): Bauhaus Film |
Discuss Theories of the Fetish and Commodity Culture
Did Bauhaus Artists develop a Utopian Theory of the Commodity? |
Paper 2 due |
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Photography, Propaganda, Montage
Lecture 13: (Sur)realism and Photography
Lecture 14: The Soviet Avant-Garde |
Meet at Busch-Reisinger Collection (Harvard Art Museums) for discussion of Montage, Graffiti, and other "Mass Cultural" Influences in modern art |
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Postwar Primitives
Lecture 15: Anti-culture? Dubuffet, Graffiti, and Art of the Insane
Lecture 16: The Jackson Pollock Case |
Discuss Readings - How does Culture become Marketable, and how do market goods become cultural?
Review strategies for Final Paper |
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Marketing Mass Culture
Lecture 17: Robert Rauschenberg's "Coca-Cola Plan" |
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Paper 3 due |
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Pop Art and Popular Culture
Lecture 18: International Pop and Anti-Pop
Lecture 19: American Pop and the "Business Art Business" |
Discuss Horkheimer and Adorno (from week 10)
Screen Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (if possible)
Discuss Readings |
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Postmodernism and Mass Media
Lecture 20: Postmodernism and Institutional Critique
Lecture 21: Postmodernism, Feminism |
Discuss Readings and "Map" Postmodernism
Exam Review |
Paper 4 due |
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The Collapse, or Renewal, of Aesthetic Distance?
Lecture 22: Report on the Present: Fashion Culture, Culture Fashion
Lecture 23: Last class, Discussion and Review |
No recitation this week, but there will be exam review sessions |
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Final exam |
