Literature 2158 - Modernist Poetry and Painting

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Bard College

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Wallace Stevens famously argued that the poet "is in rapport with the painter." This course considersekphrastic works (for example, howAuden, Williams, and Stevens described paintings) and how ideas about poetry and painting influenced each other in the first few decades of the 20th century. Students examine cubism, futurism, vorticism, expressionism, symbolism, and surrealism and consider their literary counterparts. They also study spaces that inspired discussions, essays, and poems about the relationship between poetry and painting (e.g., Alfred Stieglitz's Gallery 291, the 135th Street Library). Writers and painters studied include Gwendolyn Bennett, Hart Crane, Charles Demuth, H. D., Aaron Douglas, T. S. Eliot, Roger Fry, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Juan Gris, Marsden Hartley, Langston Hughes, Alfred Kreymborg,WyndhamLewis, StéphaneMallarmé,John Marin, F. T. Marinetti, Marianne Moore, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ezra Pound,Man Ray, Gertrude Stein,Wallace Stevens, Stieglitz, Paul Valéry, and William Carlos Williams.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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