Experimental Modernism

Catalog description

Between 1900-1940, the rich conversations and artistic production of three highly influential communities of writers and artists--the Bloomsbury group in London, Stein and Picasso's circle in Paris, and participants in the Harlem Renaissance in New York--caused the art salon to become a fashionable and prominent symbol of the mondernist era. This interdisciplinary course explores the role of these three salons 1)in the development of new and experimental art forms, including cubism, post impressionism, and literary modernism; and 2)in shaping public discourses about identity and identity politics that still impacts us today. Primary texts include poetry, autobiographies, novel, paintings, and philosophical manifestos from the modernist era. Secondary texts includes work by contemporary scholars in fields ranging from literature and art history to women's, gender, queer, black and cultural studies.