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 107-043 French Avant-Gardes: Post-Impressionists to Surrealists

Note

Formerly available as 111-265/365. Students who have completed 111-265/365 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

To be advised

Prerequisites

Usually 12.5 points of first year Art History

see Prerequisites

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture and a 1.5-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

A subject on the series of French avant-gardes over the half-century from 1885 to 1935. An examination of theories of avant-garde culture will lead to a focus on institutions (e.g. the Salon des indépendants), artists' groups (e.g. Nabis, Surrealists), individualists (e.g. Rousseau, Duchamp), and the dealer-critic system. Issues like the relation of art to politics, the body and sexuality, the discourse of abstraction, and the crisis of the art object will be considered in relation to new scholarship in areas like Pointillism, Cézanne's legacy, the Fauves, Cubism, collage, abstract sculpture, Dada, post-War realism, and Surrealist art and photography.

Assessment

An essay of 2000 words and a classpaper of 2000 words.

Prescribed Texts

  • H Chipp (ed), Theories of Modern Art. Berkeley.
  • C Harrison & P Wood (eds), Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Oxford 1992.


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