This course surveys principal developments in modern art and architecture from the late 19th century through 1945. Topics include key movements, such as Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Suprematism, de Stijl, Dada and Surrealism, and key concepts such as the avant-garde,
abstraction, the readymade, the unconscious and the primitive. Readings include
manifestoes and other writings by artists as well as art historical texts.
In the image/manifesto paper, you will offer a comparative and formal analysis of an image and a corresponding manifesto or programmatic text (e.g. an image from “Der blaue Reiter” and a theoretical text of Kandinsky; a Malevich painting and one of his statements on Suprematism; a work by Mondrian and one of his writings on New Plasticism, etc). You are free to choose an image and text from our assigned course materials and class discussions; however you are also free to
choose other images and texts as long as they are relevant to the course. Please consult the instructor if you would like to work with an "outside" image/text.
You will be expected to explain the theoretical and aesthetic considerations embedded in the piece of writing and discuss their relevance for understanding and analyzing the image in question. The aim is to express in your own words the extent to which an image coincides formally and conceptually with the terms laid out for it, as it were, in a programmatic or manifesto statement. What is the gap, if any, between the theoretical articulation of a new kind of art and its realization in a specific visual work? The paper is due in hard copy and on turnitin on the last day of class (8/19). The length is 3 to 4 pages (750 to 1000 words). This is not a research paper and you are not obliged to consult sources beyond our course readings, but if you do, all sources must be cited appropriately in MLA or Chicago style.
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