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WEEK #LECTURE TOPICSRECITATION TOPICSKEY DATES
1Modernity, Modernism, Modernization

Lecture 1: Introduction to Theories of Modernism and Modernity

Lecture 2: Introduction to Theories of Mass Culture
Discuss Readings and Video (View Excerpt in Recitation?) [Marxism's Blindness to Feminism; The Woman "Arranged for the Gaze," Conflation of Subject-in-Representation with the Real, Marxism as theory and interpretation as practice]
2Post-Revolutionary France

Lecture 3: Eugéne Delacroix, or How to Imagine Liberty

Lecture 4: Caricature and the Safehouse of "High Art"
View and Discuss Video: Pictures Beneath the Cobblestones: July 28, 1830, Liberty Leading the People

Discuss writing strategies for first paper
3Realism and The Painting of Modern Life

Lecture 5: Courbet, Realism, and Popular Images
Discuss Realism

How does allegory function in Courbet's Modernism?
4Impressionism, Photography, Serialism

Lecture 6: Manet and Modernization

Lecture 7: The Impressionist Eye as Camera
Discuss Clark's Concept of Urban Spectacle, and Baudelaire's Modernism

How do photography and fashion function for both thinkers?
Paper 1 due
5Modernist Anxiety: "Where are we going?"

Lecture 8: Serial Impressions (Print and Eye)
Two Field Trips in place of Recitations
6Primitivism / Woman / Mass Culture

Lecture 9: Woman and the Modern City

Lecture 10: European Orientalism and Gauguin's Skirt
Exam Review and Preview (bring questions)
7Cubo-Futurism and the Sign

Lecture 11: Picasso's Cubism: Politics and/or Semiosis

Lecture 12: Futurism's and Dadaism's Popular Mechanics
Discuss the Persistence of Orientalism through early PicassoMidterm exam
8Commodities

Lecture 12 (cont.): Bauhaus Film
Discuss Theories of the Fetish and Commodity Culture

Did Bauhaus Artists develop a Utopian Theory of the Commodity?
Paper 2 due
9Photography, Propaganda, Montage

Lecture 13: (Sur)realism and Photography

Lecture 14: The Soviet Avant-Garde
Meet at Busch-Reisinger Collection (Harvard Art Museums) for discussion of Montage, Graffiti, and other "Mass Cultural" Influences in modern art
10Postwar Primitives

Lecture 15: Anti-culture? Dubuffet, Graffiti, and Art of the Insane

Lecture 16: The Jackson Pollock Case
Discuss Readings - How does Culture become Marketable, and how do market goods become cultural?

Review strategies for Final Paper
11Marketing Mass Culture

Lecture 17: Robert Rauschenberg's "Coca-Cola Plan"
Paper 3 due
12Pop Art and Popular Culture

Lecture 18: International Pop and Anti-Pop

Lecture 19: American Pop and the "Business Art Business"
Discuss Horkheimer and Adorno (from week 10)

Screen Debord's "Society of the Spectacle" (if possible)

Discuss Readings
13Postmodernism and Mass Media

Lecture 20: Postmodernism and Institutional Critique

Lecture 21: Postmodernism, Feminism
Discuss Readings and "Map" Postmodernism

Exam Review
Paper 4 due
14The Collapse, or Renewal, of Aesthetic Distance?

Lecture 22: Report on the Present: Fashion Culture, Culture Fashion

Lecture 23: Last class, Discussion and Review
No recitation this week, but there will be exam review sessions
15Final exam

 








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