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Lecture Notes

WEEK # LECTURE TOPICS
1 Modernity, Modernism, Modernization

Lecture 1: Introduction to Theories of Modernism and Modernity (PDF)

Lecture 2: Introduction to Theories of Mass Culture (PDF)
2 Post-Revolutionary France

Lecture 3: Eugéne Delacroix, or, How to Imagine Liberty (PDF)

Lecture 4: Caricature and The Safehouse of "High Art" (PDF)
3 Realism and the Painting of Modern Life

Lecture 5: Courbet, Realism, and Popular Images (PDF)
4 Impressionism, Photography, Serialism

Lecture 6: Manet and Modernization (PDF)

Lecture 7: The Impressionist Eye as Camera (PDF)
5 Modernist Anxiety: "Where are we going?"

Lecture 8: Serial Impressions (Print and Eye) (PDF)
6 Primitive / Woman/ Mass Culture

Lecture 9: Woman and The Modern City (PDF)

Lecture 10: European Orientalism and Gauguin's Skirt (PDF)
7 Cubo-Futurism and The Sign

Lecture 11: Picasso's Cubism: Politics and/or Semiosis (PDF)

Lecture 12: Futurism's and Dadaism's Popular Mechanics (PDF)
8 Commodities

Lecture 12 (cont.): Bauhaus Film
9 Photography, Propaganda, Montage

Lecture 13: (Sur)realism and Photography (PDF)

Lecture 14: The Soviet Avant-Garde (PDF)
10 Postwar Primitives

Lecture 15: Anti-culture? Dubuffet, Graffiti, and Art of the Insane (PDF)

Lecture 16: The Jackson Pollock Case (PDF)
11 Marketing Mass Culture

Lecture 17: Robert Rauschenberg's Coca-Cola Plan (PDF)
12 Pop Art and Popular Culture

Lecture 18: International Pop and Anti-Pop (PDF)

Lecture 19: American Pop and the "Business Art Business" (PDF)
13 Postmodernism and Mass Media

Lecture 20: Postmodernism and Institutional Critique (PDF)

Lecture 21: Postmodernism, Feminism (PDF)
14 The Collapse, or Renewal, of Aesthetic Distance?

Lecture 22: Report on the Present: Fashion Culture, Culture Fashion (PDF)

Lecture 23: Last Class, Discussion and Review (PDF)
15 Final Exam