ARTH 562(S) Moving Pictures: New York and New Art, 1900-1920

This course will examine how avant-garde artists in New York grappled with new theories and new technologies-primarily film-in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The various circles of artists such as The Eight, the Stieglitz group, and New York Dada reacted to and transformed European ideas as represented by Matisse, Kandinsky, and Freud (among others). At the same time, they shared American fascination with technology, including film, photography, and mechanical reproduction, all of which produced profound changes in methods of representation. The entire gamut of pictorial imagery will be considered in placing American art of this era into a larger social context that includes the workings of the New York art world, gender issues including the New Woman and the Suffrage Campaign, the impact of psychology on American thought, and the First World War. Requirements: two 5-page papers and a 20-page paper.

Hour: MATHEWS