This course places international modernism in an intermedial perspective, presenting it as a broad conversation among international artists across various art forms. In addition to reading major literary works by writers such as Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Joyce, Eliot, Kafka, Woolf, Wat, Babel, Rilke, Anand, Césaire, Lu Hsun, students will enhance their understanding of modernism through exposure to other art forms, such as painting (Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Kandinsky, Chagall, Schoenberg), sculpture (Rodin, Brancusi, Giacometti), music (Schumann, Débussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Gershwin), and film (Buñuel, Dali, Eisenstein, Vertov, Carné, Godard, Ruttmann, Cavalcanti, Vigo). Instructor: Stan
Cinematic Arts