Span 4921 - The Avant-Garde in Spain: Poetry/Visual Art/Cinema

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Washington University in St Louis

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Description:

This course examines the development of the avant garde in Spain during the two decades prior to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) from an interdisciplinary perspective, including poetry, the visual arts, and cinema. We first study the development of the historical avant garde through a study of four key avant garde movements either developed by Spanish artists or taking place in Spain: Cubismo (Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris), Creacionismo (Vicente Huidobro, Gerardo Diego), Ultraismo (Gomez de la Serna, Cansinos-Assens, Pedro Salinas), and Surrealismo (Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Joan Miro). We then analyze different connections with the historical avant garde traceable in the work of a later generation of experimental Spanish poets and artists working under the strict censorship existing during Franco's fascist dictatorship, such as Jose Val del Omar, Joan Brossa, Antoni Tapies, Jose Angel Valente, Pere Gimferrer, Jose Miguel Ullan, and Jose Luis Guerin. We also incorporate in our discussion theoretical writings by various critics including Ortega y Gasset, Peter Burger, C. Brian Morris, and Roman Gubern. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates only; in Spanish.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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