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Academic Year 2001/2002

European and Russian Avant-Garde
COL 319 FA
Crosslistings:
RUSS 319

This interdisciplinary study of Russian modernism and avant-garde in the European context before and after the 1917 Revolution will examine the radical utopian experiment in literature, visual arts and film. Readings will include contemporary critical and theoretical writing on the arts. The course will explore the tensions between the artist and the revolution, and the clash of modernism and modernity in the early Stalinist period.

MAJOR READINGS

Bely, Andrey, PETERSBURG
Poetry: Akhmatova, Blok, Bely, Mandelshtam, Mayakovsky.
Film: S. Eisenstein POTEMKIN and OCTOBER; Dziga Vertov, KINO-EYE
Benjamin, Walter, "The Author as Producer"; "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." ILLUMINATIONS.
Breton, Andre. MANIFESTOES OF SURREALISM.
Boym, Svetlana. DEATH IN QUOTATION MARKS. CULTURAL MYTHS OF THE MODERN POET.
Burger, Peter. THEORY OF THE AVANT-GARDE.
Foster, Hal, ed. THE ANTI-AESTHETIC: ESSAYS IN POSTMODERN CULTU RE.
Groys, Boris. THE TOTAL ART OF STALINISM: AVANT-GARDE, AESTHETIC DICTATORSHIP, AND BEYOND.
Mayakovsky, Vladimir. THE BEDBUG AND OTHER POETRY.
Orwell, G. 1984
Zamytin, E. WE

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two papers (8-10pp); oral presentation.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA COL    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2002

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