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ART 375 Modernism in Art & Literature

In this course we study visual art and literature of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Styles and ideas leading up to Modern and Postmodern trends are analyzed. The social, political and ideological context will be emphasized over aesthetic concerns. Looking for ideological relationships between art and literature, places where ideas connect and places where they diverge, will provide a broad understanding of ways context influences art and perhaps, vice versa. 

Modern Art: Impressionism to Postmodernism

Other support & 
student presentations

Instructions for Presentations
Henri Bergson
WW1
Freud and the Unconscious_Alyssa
Stream of Consciousness
Marcel Duchamp
Andre Breton
Freud and Dreams
The Depression
Unionization
The Atom Bomb
Zen 50s and 60s
Post War Europe
TV in the 50s
The Beats
Picture
Emile Zola, Edouard Manet









This portrait was painted in appreciation for the support Zola gave to Manet in his 
1866 essay in La Revue du XXe siècle and during Manet's independent exhibition 
held along side the Universal Exposition in 1867.

Paper in Art and Literature

Instructions for writing: Purdu Writing Lab

Analysis Paper 1
2 student samples for paper 1

Art Paper 2

Literature Paper 1
Literature Paper 2

Art Paper 3

Final Project--



Week 1

Course Syllabus

Note: Syllabus contains SNOW updates and student presentation schedule

Modern Art reading 1
MoMA Link
Mod
Metropolitan Museum Site
Art Story.org
San Francisco Museum of Art_Mod

Week 3

Expressionism Lecture
Monday--Expressionism
Expressionism MoMa

Expressionism Define

Kahn Academy_Kirchner's Street Dresden


Wednesday--Literary Impressionism

Manet's  portrait of Zola__video

Zola--"I want to portray, at the outset of a century of liberty and truth, a family that cannot restrain itself in its rush to possess all the good things that progress is making available and is derailed by its own momentum, the fatal convulsions that accompany the birth of a new world."

Jean Toomer, Cane

Week 2

Monday--Realism break with tradition

Modern Art reading 1

Modernism 

Renaissance Tradition

Renaissance 

Realism Lecture
Impressionism-Post impress
Wednesday--Impressionism

First part of reading scanned

Second part of reading scanned

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Japanese Art and Modernism


Picture

Week 4

Harlem Ren Art
Monday--Feb 17
Harlem Renaissance

Link to Harlem Renaissance in Art

Link 2 to Harlem Renaissance in Art

Reading: Jim Crow
Literary critics sometimes work within an analytical framework known as "new historicism."  This is a way of investigating the relationship between a text and the historical context surrounding its production -- and not simply the "accepted" history of the time of the work, but all the events, pop culture and everything, that were taking place during the author's life and could have shaped his or her writing of the text.  This link, to the Ferris University Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, offers a good deal of this context for the works, like Cane, of the Harlem Renaissance.
Wednesday February 19
Zola --
Jean Toomer, Cane-- Cane is widely considered the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance, which is generally regarded as beginning in 1923, with the publication of Cane, and ending in 1929, though the precise boundaries are debatable. 

Wednesday--Literary Modernism

Faulkner
Picture
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon at MoMA

Week 5

Monday--Literary Modernism
Faulkner



Wednesday--Cubism
Cubism

Cubism and African Art
Cubism Lecture
Futurism Lecture
Futurism at Guggenheim NOW

Week 6

Picture
Dada Lecture
Monday--Dada

Marcel Duchamp and readymades


Wednesday-- Surrealism
Surrealism
Picture


week 7

Monday--Modernist Poetry

eecummings 
Guillaume Apollinaire
Calligrammes


Art Analysis Paper 2

Wednesday--Pre-Modernist America
The Armory Show
The Ashcan School
The Hudson River School
The Stieglitz Group
American Regionalism

Ernest Hemingway and Art

The Great Depression
Am. Art before WWII part 1
Am. Art before WWII part 2

week 8

The New York School
Monday-- Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism MoMA
Abstract Expressionism MET

Wednesday--Abstract Expressionism


Picture
Instructions for Final Project
Picture
Picture

week 9

Monday
Pop part 1
Pop part 2
Wednesday-- Dharma Bums

"When I was a little kid in Oregon I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper gray censorship of all our real human values but and when I discovered Buddhism and all I suddenly felt that I had lived in a previous lifetime innumerable ages ago and now because of faults and sins in that lifetime I was being degraded to a more grievous domain of existence and my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom".


Picture

week 10

Monday-- Dharma Bums 
Here are a few pictures of the cabin Kerouac (and the fictional Ray Smith) stayed in on Desolation Peak as a fire lookout.  The cabin is still there, and the job is still regularly available from the US Park Service.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Wednesday--POSTMODERN ART
Minimalism & Feminism in Art

Lecture_minimalism_feminism
Part 1
Part 2

Postmodern notes
Art Paper 3

Picture

week 11

Monday---POSTMODERN CONTINUE
Land Art, Graffiti & Identity

Lecture Land Art, Site Specific and Graffiti
Part 1
Part 2


Wednesday-- Identity & Assimilation


week 12

Monday-- POSTMODERN LITERATURE

The Crying Lot


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