GLI B5530 -

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The New School

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Art and Revolution: From Paris to St. Petersburg Spring 2009. Elizabeth Kendall This course is about the Russian Revolution: the ideas behind it, the events that set it in motion, and the astonishing cultural and artistic experiments that emerged in its wake. We begin with the earlier revolution that served as model to the Russian: the French one of 1789, and the vision of total societal transformation it unleashed on the world. We will leap more than a century, into Russia's decaying imperial regime, exploded in 1917 by a mass popular revolution, followed by an engineered revolutionary coup-followed in turn by wars of doctrine fought amid chaos. We examine eyewitness accounts of these events by journalists and memoirists; compare analyses from historians and revolutionary activitists; and study the radical attempts, by artists in several media, to delineate the confounding new world of the revolution's aftermath, even as they questioned their own artistic languages. Course authors and auteurs include historians and critics T.J. Clark, Hanna Arendt, Edmund Wilson, and Geoffrey Hosking; journalists John Reed, Emma Goldman, and Mikhail Zoshchenko; memoirists Viktor Shklovsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and Nadezhda Mandelstam; musicians Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev; artists Kazimir Malevich and Natalia Goncharova; poets Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva and Osip Mandelstam; filmmakers Esther Shub, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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