| 1 |
Avant-garde |
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| 2 |
Manifesto of the Communist Party (1872) |
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| 3 |
Futurism |
Oral presentations |
| 4 |
Eisenstein |
First essay outline due in class
Oral presentations
First essay due (at end of week)
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| 5 |
Kandinsky (1886-1944) |
Oral presentations |
| 6-7 |
Mass Culture and Woman |
Oral presentations by one student
Revision of first essay due (at end of week)
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| 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 |