ARTHIST 149 - Art Between the Wars:Dada,De Stijl,Constructivism,Surrealism

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Stanford University

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Description:

(Same as ARTHIST 349.) Historical avant garde movements and anti-modernist tendencies such as socialist realism and Nazi art. Issues: artistic responses to wartime trauma; attempts to develop the progressive potential of technology and the political utility of art; and attempts to reorder relations between body and machine, art object and commodity, and private and public life. Artists: Richter, Heartfield, Tzara, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Bellmer, Man Ray, and Ernst. Readings: the modern subject, mass culture, the modernism/antimodernism debates of the 30s, and the uses of art in totalitarian regimes. GER:DB-Hum GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stanford.edu/

Phone Number:

(650) 723-2300

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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