Updated Syllabus for the remainder of the Semester

Week 9 –  November 2 

17th Century - Northern Europe

Week 10 – November 9 

The Age or Reason and Delight - The 18th Century

Case Study: Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806)

Reading: AH chapter 29 p. 903 -943.

Week 11 – November 16

The 19th Century: Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, and the Permanent Revolution 

Case Study: Gustave Courbet (c.1819/31 - 1877)

Screening: Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930) Passion (1982) excerpt.

Reading due: AH chapter 29 p. 943- 959 & chapter 30: p. 961-1001 (up to “Symbolism”).

Week 12 – November 23

Fracture,Fission, and Movement: Europe 1900 - 1960

Abstract Expressionism and Its Discontents: America 1900 - 1960

Case Study: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Screening: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy and George Antheil Ballet Mécanique (1924);

Oskar Fischinger Wax Experiments (1923 -1927); Jean Cocteau The Blood of the Poet (1930). excerpt. Martha Graham (1894 - 1991) & Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Appalachian Spring (1946) excerpt; Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) At Land (1944).

Reading due: AH chapter 30: p 1003-1013 (from Symbolism through Modern Architecture) & chapter 31 p. 1017-1048 (Early Modern Art in Europe) & p.1050-1081

Week 13 – November 30

The Rise of Performance, Conceptual Art, and the “Post-Modern”: 1960 to 2000

Case Study: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)

Screening: Andy Warhol Kiss (1963) excerpt; Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939) Fuses (1967) excerpt; Joan Jonas (b.1936) Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll (1972) excerpt; Dara Birnbaum (b.1946) Technology Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978). 

Reading due: AH chapter 32 p. 1083 - 1135.

Week 14 – December 7

Concluding Lectures, In class discussions in preparation for the Final Exam

Final Exam December 21