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Modern Art and Mass Culture

Art: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Rovine di uno degli alloggiamenti de' Soldati presso aduna delle…, 1748 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Caroline Jones
Term: Spring 2012
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 2 exams · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 24 handouts · 8 other files · 4 web pages
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Lecture 1: Introduction to Theories of Modernism and Modernity

Lecture 2: Introduction to Theories of Mass Culture

Lecture 3: Eugène Delacroix, or How to Imagine Liberty

Lecture 4: Caricature and the Safehouse of “High Art”

Lecture 5: Courbet, Realism, and Popular Images / ASCO preview

Lecture 6: Manet: Flâneurs and Flâneuses in the Modernizing City / ASCO

Lecture 7: European Orientalism: Camille’s Kimono and Gauguin’s Skirt

Lecture 8: The Impressionist Eye as Camera

Lecture 9: Serial Impressions (Print and Eye)

Lecture 10: Picasso’s Cubism: Politics and/or Semiosis

Lecture 11: The Soviet Avant-Garde

Lecture 12: Futurism’s and Dadaism’s Popular Mechanics

Lecture 13: In and Around Duchamp

Lecture 14: Irrational / Rational Production: Surrealism vs. The Bauhaus Idea

Lecture 15: Anti-culture? Dubuffet, Pollock, and Premonitions of the Postmodern

Lecture 16: Robert Rauschenberg’s Coca-Cola Plan / International Pop

Lecture 17: The “Business Art Business,” Globalism vs. Globalization

Lecture 18: Postmodernism, Spectacle, and Institutional Critique

Lecture 19: Postmodernism and Feminism

Lecture 20: New Media / Mass Media / Sensory Reconfigurations

Lecture 21: Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience

Lecture 22: Present-day Strategies Vis-a-vis Art and Mass Culture Guest lecturers: Star TAs, Rebecca Uchill and Niko Vicario!

Lecture 23: Last class: concluding discussion of class themes, review for exam, and discussion of student research paper abstracts.