Crosslisted with 195:277 and 082:276
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the European avant-garde movements at the beginning of the 20th century. We will consider innovations in art, music, film, and literature, beginning with German Expressionism, followed by Italian Futurism, the international Dada movement, and French Surrealism. We will look at the various ways in which these movements discover the irrational, the pathological, the unconscious, the precarious and the abandoned as revolutionary and subversive gesture with the utopian potential of changing the world. We will explore what binds and what separates these movements from each other. And we will trace the influences on European avant-gardes.
In English. No prerequisites. Taught asynchronously. This course satisfies core requirements AHo, AHp.