Course Detail

21/WI DLE-400-A
WHAT MAKES MODERN ART MODERN

Instructor: Stone-Richards
Department: LIBERAL ARTS
Credits: 3   Instruction Method: ONHY
Status: CLSD

This seminar explores the following: (i) art becomes modern when art is rejected; (ii) there is no modern art without poetry, philosophy, ethics or the political; (iii) art becomes modern when the poet Charles Baudelaire realizes the city as an active subject in art; (iv) the city and anti-art produce an avant-garde which claims to refuse art. Broadly speaking, the course is not concerned with the claim of a particular movement or artist as the beginning of modern and/or avant-garde activity; instead the course is concerned with the practices, attitudes and values that make for distinctively modern conceptions of artistic activities, of which the following are emphasized: the city, poetry, spectacle and performance. There is a special section in the course devoted to the city and film. Students will be encouraged to devise creative responses in film, photography, digital media, drawing, painting, sculpture etc. to their environment.

Start Date: 2021-01-19 End Date: 2021-05-08
Meeting in: ONL
Room: ONLINE
Days: T
Start Time: 12:45 PM
End Time: 3:30 PM