Lecture Notes
| WEEK # | LECTURE TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Modernity, Modernism, Modernization Lecture 1: Introduction to Theories of Modernism and Modernity (PDF) Lecture 2: Introduction to Theories of Mass Culture (PDF) |
| 2 | Post-Revolutionary France Lecture 3: Eugéne Delacroix, or, How to Imagine Liberty (PDF) Lecture 4: Caricature and The Safehouse of "High Art" (PDF) |
| 3 | Realism and the Painting of Modern Life Lecture 5: Courbet, Realism, and Popular Images (PDF) |
| 4 | Impressionism, Photography, Serialism Lecture 6: Manet and Modernization (PDF) Lecture 7: The Impressionist Eye as Camera (PDF) |
| 5 | Modernist Anxiety: "Where are we going?" Lecture 8: Serial Impressions (Print and Eye) (PDF) |
| 6 | Primitive / Woman/ Mass Culture Lecture 9: Woman and The Modern City (PDF) Lecture 10: European Orientalism and Gauguin's Skirt (PDF) |
| 7 | Cubo-Futurism and The Sign Lecture 11: Picasso's Cubism: Politics and/or Semiosis (PDF) Lecture 12: Futurism's and Dadaism's Popular Mechanics (PDF) |
| 8 | Commodities Lecture 12 (cont.): Bauhaus Film |
| 9 | Photography, Propaganda, Montage Lecture 13: (Sur)realism and Photography (PDF) Lecture 14: The Soviet Avant-Garde (PDF) |
| 10 | Postwar Primitives Lecture 15: Anti-culture? Dubuffet, Graffiti, and Art of the Insane (PDF) Lecture 16: The Jackson Pollock Case (PDF) |
| 11 | Marketing Mass Culture Lecture 17: Robert Rauschenberg's Coca-Cola Plan (PDF) |
| 12 | Pop Art and Popular Culture Lecture 18: International Pop and Anti-Pop (PDF) Lecture 19: American Pop and the "Business Art Business" (PDF) |
| 13 | Postmodernism and Mass Media Lecture 20: Postmodernism and Institutional Critique (PDF) Lecture 21: Postmodernism, Feminism (PDF) |
| 14 | The Collapse, or Renewal, of Aesthetic Distance? Lecture 22: Report on the Present: Fashion Culture, Culture Fashion (PDF) Lecture 23: Last Class, Discussion and Review (PDF) |
| 15 | Final Exam |
