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Art 302: MODERN ART AND THEORY


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Introduction: Modern, Modernism, Modernity (I): The Enlightenment and Modernity: Modernism and Crisis:

Renaissance
Reformation
René Descartes (1596-1660)
The Enlightenment
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Kritik, Krise
Modern
Modernism
Modernity
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

Modernism and Critical Theory (I): Psychoanalysis:

condensation
sublimation
desublimation
displacement
dream-work
fetish/fetishism
Oedipus complex
latent/manifest content

Modernism and Critical Theory (II): The Social History of Art:

affirmative culture
Alexandrianism
anomie/anomic
dialogism/dialogical
hegemony/hegemonic
Kitsch
postcolonial discourse

Modernism and Critical Theory (III): Formalism and Structuralism:

Roland Barthes (1915-80)
Bertold Brecht (1898-1956)

estrangement
metaphor
metonymy
polysemy
signifier/signified
synechdoche
trope

Modernism and Critical Theory (IV): Postructuralism and Deconstruction:

aporia/aporetic
durée
Gesamtkunstwerk
logocentrism/logocentric
phallogocentrism
performatice/performativity
phenomenology
simulacrum/a
spectacle

Émile Benveniste (1902-76)
Michel Foucault (1926-84)
Jacques Derrida (1930-04)

Modernism in the 19th Century: Baudelaire and Modernity: Impressionism and the Painting of Modern Life; The Avant-Garde and Modernism:

Charles Baudelaire (1821-67)
bohemian
bourgeois, bourgeoisie
avant-garde
fläneur


Modern, Modernism, Modernity (IV): Modernism in the 19th Century: Impressionism and the Painting of Modern Life:

Haussmannization
Édouard Manet (1832-83)
Impressionism
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-94)

Post-Impressionism (I): The Last Impressionist Exhibition 1886: Neo-Impressionism: Seurat, Signac, Pissarro

Post-Impressionism
Neo-Impressionism
Georges Seurat (1859-91)
Paul Signac (1863-1935)
Camille Pissarro (1830-1905)
pointillism
divisionism

Postimpressionism (II): Primitivism and the “Going Away”: Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin

Émile Bernard (1868-1941)
School of Pont-Aven
cloisonnism
primitivism
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Notes Synthétiques
synthetism
Symbolism
literalness
musicality
iconicity
imagism
imagists
Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
James Ensor (1860-1949)
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91)
Paul Verlaine (1844-96)
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98)
Richard Wagner (1813-83)

Les Vingt
Rose + Croix
Nabis
Paul Sérusier (1863-1927)
Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898)
Gustave Klimt (1862-1918)
Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Henri Rousseau, Le Douanier (1844-1910)
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Postimpressionism (III): Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Arles
Saint-Rémy
Auvers-sur-Oise
Martin Heidegger
Stummung
authenticity
emanation
immanence

Postimpressionism (IV): Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

perception-conception
continuum
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
“Cézanne’s Doubt”

Fauvism

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)
André Derain (1880-1954)
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
Joie de Vivre
Friedrich Nietzsche
André Gide, Culte de la vie
Apollonian-Dionysian
pantheism
paneroticism

German Expressionism

Ausdruck
Ausdruckswollen
Erfahrung
Erlebnis

Die Brücke
: Dresden 1905-14:
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Erich Heckel (1883-1970)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976)
Max Pechstein (1888-1953)
Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Otto Müller (1874-1930)
Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966)

Der Blaue Reiter: Munich 1911-1916:
Franz Marc (1880-1916)
August Macke (1887-1914)
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Alexej Jawlensky (1864-1941)
Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Cubism

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Analytic Cubism
passage
Synthetic Cubism
collage
papier collé

Futurism

Filippo Tommasso Marinetti (1876-1944)
"Le Futurisme," Le Figaro, Paris, 1909
Parole in Libertà
Carlo Carrà (1871-1966)
Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)
Umberto Buccioni (1882-1916)
Luigi Russolo (1885-1947)
Gino Severini (1883-1966)
Antonio Sant'Elia (1888-1916)
Il Manifesto dell' architettura futurista, 1914
CIttà Nuova, 1914
velocità

Vassily Kandinsky and abstract(ing) expressionism

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Munich Secession
Jungenstil
Gabriele Münter
Gesamtkuntswerk
Richard Wagner
Apocalyptic
Friedrich Nietzsche
Naturutopien
cosmic landscape
Über das Geistige in der Kunst, 1912
synesthesia
“Correspondences,” Baudelaire

De Stijl

Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931)
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Neo-Plasticism
J. J. P. Oud (1890-1963)
Gerrit Reitveld (1888-1964)

The Russian Avant-Garde

Leo Tolstoy
Fdyor Dostoyevsky
Ivan Turgenev
Sergei Diaghilev
Ballets Russes
Igor Stravinsky
Nijinski
Mikhail Larionov
Natalia Goncharova

Suprematism

Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935)

Abstraction and Modernity

August Strindberg
Arnold Schoenberg
James Joyce

The School of Paris

École de Paris
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Chaïm Soutine (1894-1944)
Montparnasse
Montmartre

Purism

L’Esprit Nouveau
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier)
Amédée Ozenfant

Zurich Dada (1916-19):

Hugo Ball
Emmy Hennings
Richard Huelsenbeck
Hans Richter
Tristan Tzara
Marcel Janco
Jean Arp
Sophie Taeuber
Cabaret Voltaire

New York Dada (1915-20):

Francis Picabia
391
Man Ray
readymade
readymade-assisted
Alfred Stieglitz
Edward Steichen
“Photo Secession”
291

Marcel Duchamp:

The Bride Stripped by her Bachelors, Even, 1915-23
The Green Box, 1934
Fountain, 1917
Three Standard Stoppages, 1913-14
Tu m’, 1918
“Rrose Sélavy”
readymade
ludic
aleatory

Berlin Dada (1918-23):

John Heartfield
Raoul Hausmann
Hannah Höch
Richard Huelsenbeck
Georg Grosz
Johannes Baader

Photomontage
Bertolt Brecht
dialectic

Hanover Dada:

Kurt Schwitters
merz
merzbau

Cologne Dada:

Max Ernst
Johannes Baargeld

Paris Dada (1919-22):

Francis Picabia
Marcel Duchamp
André Breton

Constructivism:

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924)
Bolshevik Revolution, October 1917
Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953)
El Lissitzky (1890-1941)
PROUNS
Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956)
Varvara Stepavona (1894-1958)
Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)
New Economic Policy, 1921

The Bauhaus:

Weimar 1919-1925
Dessau 1925-1932
Berlin 1932-1933
Walter Gropius
Wassily Kandinsky
Lyonel Feininger
Paul Klee
Johannes Itten
Oskar Schlemmer
Josef Albers
László Moholy-Nagy
Mies van der Rohe

Surrealism:

dream-work
manifest content-latent meaning
Oedipus complex
repression
condensation
sublimation/desublimation
libidinal
displacement
fetish/fetishism

André Masson
automatism
Joan Miró
Paul Klee
Giorgio di Chirico
Max Ernst
frottage/grattage
René Magritte
Salvador Dalí
Yves Tanguy
Paul Delvaux

uncanny doubling
Hans Bellmer
objec trouvé
Man Ray
rayogram
Brassaï
Jacques-André Boiffar
Jacques Lacan
gaze

Georges Bataille
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents, (1930)
bassesse
general economy
dépense
horizontality
abject
informe
heterogeneity
abattoir
Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)
The Lugubrious Game, 1929

The Surrealist Object:
Man Ray
dépaysement (estrangement)
Alberto Giacometti
Meret Oppenheim

Social/Socialist Realism:

Walter Benjamin

Bertold Brecht

Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo

Neue Sachlichkeit
Rudolf Schlichter
Georg Grosz
Otto Dix

Social Realism
Socialist Realism