| Week 1 – MODERNITY, MODERNISM, MODERNIZATION |
| 1 | Introduction to Theories of Modernism and Modernity (PDF) |
| Week 2 – MASS CULTURE AND REVOLUTION |
| 2 | Introduction to Theories of Mass Culture (PDF) |
| 3 | Eugène Delacroix, or How to Imagine Liberty (PDF) |
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Week 3 – FIELD TRIP Field trip to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to see Monet's La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese Costume), 1876, and other paintings.
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| Week 4 – POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE |
| 4 | Caricature and the Safehouse of "High Art" (PDF) |
| 5 | Courbet, Realism, and Popular Images / ASCO preview (PDF) |
| Week 5 – MANET'S REALISM AND THE PAINTING OF MODERN LIFE |
| 6 | Manet: Flâneurs and Flâneuses in the Modernizing City / ASCO (PDF) |
| 7 | European Orientalism: Camille's Kimono and Gauguin's Skirt (PDF) |
| Week 6 – IMPRESSIONISM & PHOTOGRAPHY |
| 8 | The Impressionist Eye as Camera (PDF) |
| Week 7 – SERIALISM & SEMIOSIS |
| 9 | Serial Impressions (Print and Eye) (PDF) |
| 10 | Picasso's Cubism: Politics and/or Semiosis (PDF) |
| Week 8 – NEW SUBJECTS FOR MODERNITY |
| 11 | The Soviet Avant-Garde (PDF) |
| 12 | Futurism's and Dadaism's Popular Mechanics (PDF) |
| Week 9 – PRODUCTION AND (COMMODITY) FETISH |
| 13 | In and Around Duchamp (PDF) |
| 14 |
Irrational / Rational Production: Surrealism vs. The Bauhaus Idea (PDF) Additional handout: Bauhaus (PDF)
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| Week 10 – POSTWAR PRIMITIVES |
| 15 | Anti-culture? Dubuffet, Pollock, and Premonitions of the Postmodern (PDF) |
| Week 11 – MARKETING MASS CULTURE |
| 16 | Robert Rauschenberg's Coca-Cola Plan / International Pop (PDF) |
| 17 | The "Business Art Business," Globalism vs. Globalization (PDF) |
| Week 12 – SIMULATION, SPECTACLE, & THE POSTMODERN |
| 18 | Postmodernism, Spectacle, and Institutional Critique (PDF) |
| 19 |
Postmodernism and Feminism (PDF) Additional handout: Mapping Postmodernism (PDF)
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| Week 13 – NEW MEDIA & BIENNIAL CULTURE |
| 20 | New Media / Mass Media / Sensory Reconfigurations (PDF) |
| 21 | Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience (PDF) |
| Week 14 – PRESENT STRATEGIES |
| 22 |
Present-day Strategies Vis-à-vis Art and Mass Culture (PDF) Guest lecturers: Star TAs, Rebecca Uchill and Nick Vicario!
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| 23 | Last class: concluding discussion of class themes, review for exam, and discussion of student research paper abstracts (PDF) |
