32104
Advanced Seminar
SoSe 18: American Avant-Gardes in Literature and Visual Culture
Matthew Holman
Comments
In this course we will be studying a wide-ranging sample of seminal experiments in prose, film, poetry, painting, sculpture, dance, music and performance that were undertaken by American avant-gardists in the twentieth century. The course will apply pressure on what might be defined as “avant-garde” while hoping to serve as an introduction to a history of radical art and ideas, and one that asks what possibilities there might be for experimental literature and visual culture in the United States today. This is not a straightforward and reassuring programme, but rather one that will encourage you into exploratory close readings of challenging and often (still) controversial material.
Following a roughly chronological structure, discussed movements will include the Imagist poets, the Stieglitz Circle, Abstract Expressionism, the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, The New York School of poetry and music, the initiatives at Black Mountain College, Neo-Dada, the 1980s East Village scene that included Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as radical feminist poetry via Carolee Schneemann, experimental film (especially Maya Deren, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger), and street photography. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2018-04-18 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-04-25 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-05-02 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-05-09 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-05-16 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-05-23 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-05-30 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-06-06 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-06-13 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-06-20 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-06-27 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-07-04 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-07-11 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2018-07-18 16:00 - 18:00