Wednesday, January 9: Introduction: Modern, Modernism,
Modernity (I):
Friday, January 11: Introduction: Modern,
Modernism, Modernity (II): The Enlightenment and Modernity: Modernism
and Crisis
Monday, January 14: Modernism and Critical
Theory (I): Psychoanalysis:
• “Psychoanalysis in modernism
and as method,” Art Since 1900, pp. 15-21
Wednesday, January 16: Modernism and
Critical Theory (II): The Social History of Art:
• “The social history of
art: models and concepts,” Art Since 1900, pp. 22-31
Friday, January 18: Modernism and Critical
Theory (III): Formalism and Structuralism:
• “Formalism and structuralism,”
Art Since 1900, pp. 32-39
Monday, January 21: Martin Luther King
Holiday (no class)
Wednesday, January 23: Modernism and
Critical Theory (IV): Postructuralism and Deconstruction:
• “Poststructuralism
and deconstruction,” Art Since 1900, pp. 40-48
Friday, January 25: Modernism in the
19th Century: Baudelaire and Modernity: Impressionism and the Painting
of Modern Life; The Avant-Garde and Modernism
Monday, January
28: QUIZ I
Wednesday, January 30: no class
Friday, February 1: no class
Monday, February 4: Modernism in the
19th Century: Baudelaire and Modernity: Impressionism and the Painting
of Modern Life; The Avant-Garde and Modernism
Wednesday, February 6: Post-Impressionism
(I): Neo-Impressionism: Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Camille Pissarro
Friday, February 8: Post-Impressionism
(II): Symbolism and Synthétisme: Paul Gauguin and Primitivism:
• 1903, Art Since 1900,
pp. 64-6
Monday,
February 11: Post-Impressionism (III): Symbolism and Synthétisme:
Imagists and Imagism: Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, James Ensor; Toulouse-Lautrec
Wednesday, February 13: Post-Impressionism
(IV): Symbolism and Synthétisme: Edvard Munch
Friday, February
15: QUIZ II
Monday, February 18: President’s
Day (no class)
Wednesday, February 20: no class
Friday, February 22: no class
Monday, February 25: no class
Wednesday, February 27: Post-Impressionism
(V): Symbolism and Synthétisme: Vincent van Gogh
Friday, February 29: Post-Impressionism
(VI): Paul Cézanne
Monday, March 3: Henry Matisse and Fauvism;
Critical Theory and Modern Art:
• 1906, Art Since 1900, pp. 70-77
• 1910, Art Since 1900, pp. 100-105
Wednesday, March
5: MIDTERM
Friday, March 7-Monday, March 17: Spring
Break
Wednesday, March 19: ; The Vienna Secession;
Expressionism in Germany (I): Die Brücke and Der Blaue
Reiter:
• 1900a,
Art Since 1900, pp. 52-56
• 1908, Art Since 1900, pp. 85-89
Friday, March 21: Cubism: The Evolution
of Cubism: Cézanne and Cubism; Analytic Cubism: Pablo Picasso
and Georges Braque:
• 1907, Art Since 1900,
pp. 78-84
• 1911, Art Since 1900, pp. 106-111
Monday, March 24: Futurism: Giacomo Balla,
Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini:
• 1909, Art Since 1900,
pp. 90-97
Wednesday, March 26: De Stijl: Piet Mondrian,
Théo van Doesburg, Gerrit Reitveld:
• 1917,
Art Since 1900, pp. 148-153
• 1944a, Art Since 1900, pp. 308-312
Friday, March 28: The Russian Avant-Garde
(I): Russian Modernism: Tatlin and construction: Russian and Soviet
Constructivism: Vladimir Tatlin, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova,
Varvara Stepanova, El Lissitzky:
• 1914, Art Since 1900,
pp. 125-127
• 1921, Art Since 1900, pp. 174-179
Monday, March 31:
QUIZ III
Wednesday, April 2: The Russian Avant-Garde
(II): Kasimir Malevich and Suprematism:
• 1915, Art Since 1900,
pp. 130-134
Friday, April 4: Zurich Dada: Tristan
Tzara, Hugo Ball, Hans Richter, Jean Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, and the
Cabaret Voltaire; New York Dada: Marcel Duchamp:
• 1914, Art Since 1900,
pp. 125-129
• 1916a, Art Since 1900, pp. 135-141
Monday, April 7: German Dada: Raoul Hausmann,
Hannah Höch, John Heartfield; Hanover Dada: Kurt Schwitters: Paris
Dada: Francis Picabia; Cologne Dada:
• 1920, Art Since 1900,
pp. 168-173
• 1918, Art Since 1900, pp. 154-159
• 1926, Art Since 1900, pp. 208-211
Wednesday, April 9: The Bauhaus (I):
• 1923,
Art Since 1900, pp. 185-189
Friday, April 11: The Bauhaus (II): Film:
Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century (Frank Whitford, 1994
Monday, April 15: La Révolution Surréaliste (I):
Freud and Surrealism: André Breton, Max Ernst, Joan Miró:
Metaphysical Painting: René Magritte:
• 1922,
Art Since 1900, pp. 180-184
• 1924, Art Since 1900, pp. 190-195
• 1927a, Art Since 1900, pp. 212-215
Wednesday, April 16: La Révolution
Surréaliste (II): Georges Bataille and the informe: the
surrealist object: Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dalí, Hans Bellmer,
Man Ray, Meret Oppenheim:
• 1930b,
Art Since 1900, pp. 245-249
• 1931, Art Since 1900, pp. 250-254
• 1934b, Art Since 1900, pp. 266-270
Friday, April 18: La Révolution
Surréaliste (III): Surrealist cinema: Films: Un chien
andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929), La age d’or
(Luis Buñuel, 1930)
Monday, April 21:
QUIZ IV
Wednesday, April 23: Fascism, Socialism,
and Social Realism in Europe and America (I): Neue Sachlichkeit
in Weimar Germany: George Grosz, Max Beckman, Otto Dix:
• 1925b,
Art Since 1900, pp. 202-207
Friday, April 25: Fascism, Socialism
and Social Realism in Europe and America (II): Social Realism in America:
Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union:
• 1927c,
Art Since 1900, pp. 220-225
• 1933, Art Since 1900, pp. 255-259
• 1936, Art Since 1900, pp. 276-280
• 1934a, Art Since 1900, pp. 260-265
• 1937a, Art Since 1900, pp. 281-28
Monday, April 28: Fascism, Socialism
and Social Realism in Europe and America (III): Film: Architecture of
Doom (Peter Cohen, 1989)
Wednesday, April 30: The American Avant-Garde:
Clement Greenberg and the farewell to Marxism: Surrealism in America:
The Harlem Renaissance:
• 1942a,
Art Since 1900, pp. 292-296
• 1942b, Art Since 1900, pp. 297-301
• 1943, Art Since 1900, pp. 302-307
• 1944b, Art Since 1900, pp. 313-317
Friday, May 2: Conclusions: Modernism
in Retrospect: The Work of Art in the Age after Art:
• 1935, Art Since 1900,
pp. 271-274
Monday, May 5: Final Examination: 12:30-2:30
