ARTHIST 445 - Intermedia Practices of the 1920s and 1930s

Institution:

Stanford University

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The emergence and proliferation of new intermedia practices in Weimar Germany, fascist Italy, and Soviet Russia as avant garde artists invented modes of agitation and propaganda appropriate to the protean ambitions of each state. Focus is on monumental photography, wherein the medium of photography was mobilized on an architectural scale in interior spaces, exhibitions, and urban environments, and on the photo essay, a radicalization of the traditional amalgam of pictures and text made possible by advances in printing technologies. The historical avant garde's significance for postwar debates about media hybridity and the society of the spectacle. 5 units, not given this year

Credits:

5.00

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Instructional Type:

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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