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Topic for Fall 2006: Avant-Garde and Culture Industry. Examines the terms "avant-garde" and "Kulturindustrie" in French and German culture of the early 20th century. Origins of these concepts in surrealist and dadaist literature, art, and cinema. Parallel formations across Europe, particularly in the former Soviet Union. Artists and writers to be considered are Adorno, Aragon, Bataille, Beckett, Brecht, Breton, Berger, Duchamp, Eisenstein, Ernst, Greenberg, Malevich, Marinetti, and Mayakovsky. History and cultural politics of avant-garde movements in the cinema and literature of contemporary Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe. Taught in English. Enrollment limited.

Units: 3-0-9(U)

CI-H

Same As  4.608J