ARTH 541

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Seminar in Modern Art

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Credit: 4 hours.

Investigation of special problems in the history of twentieth-century art. Students present reports of their research.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51045	Lecture	A	3:00PM -5:50PM	M	404 Flagg Hall	Kaganovsky, L Romberg, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Title: Techs of RUSS Avant-Garde Section Info: Topic: Aesthetic Technologies of the Russian Avant-Garde. This course takes as its primary focus the radical transformations of aesthetic technologies in painting, photography, film, literature, poetry, and related media produced by the Russian avant-garde in the period from the 1917 Russian Revolution to the beginning of the Second World War. During these interwar years in Russia, Soviet artists attempted to participate directly through industrial design, architecture, literature, and cinema in the state's ambitious projects for constructing a socialist modernity. They developed what we might term "aesthetic technologies” – new ways of processing sensory experience and of organizing pictorial space and narrative. This course is organized as a primer on the technologies of seeing and representing as they appear in Soviet film, literature, poetry, and the visual arts of the 1920s and 1930s. Topics will include: “trans-sense” (zaum), estrangement (ostranenie), montage, collage, attraction, factography, mastery or conquest of space through vision (osvoenie), and socialist realism. We are interested in how these aesthetic technologies were employed in new media such as photography, cinema, and radio, as well as in how they were deployed across media more broadly, including more traditional arts like literature and painting. Figures whose work will be considered include: Andrei Bely, Sergei Eisenstein, Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Krychenykh, El Lissitzky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Yuri Olesha, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Aleksandr Medvedkin, Andrei Platonov, Esfir’ Shub, Varvara Stepanova, Sergei Tret’iakov, and Dziga Vertov. Class will meet with SLAV 525. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.