(in Polish) Avant-Garde in European Art nad Literature 1900-1939 3222-50AV2K-N

The aim is to instill in students extended knowledge on the topic of avant-garde tendencies and trends in the European art of the 20th century (in the period of 1900-1939). The term avant-garde at this course is understood broadly as artistic tendencies diverting from traditions, the aim being to create a separate world instead of imitating reality, radical rejection of mimesis, and search for original solutions in the sphere of artistic ideas and its own, individual way of expression.

Seminar meetings will be devoted to analyses of selected literary texts, works of art, architecture, films, photography, music and ballet.

Literature:
Franz Kafka „A Hunger Artist” (1926)
James Joyce „Ulisses” – excerpts (1922)
Marcel Proust “In Search of the Time Lost” (1913-1927), vol. 1
Futurism in Europie. Futurism in Russia: Khlebnikovand „zaumnyj jazyk”, Burluk, Majakowski.
Ukrainian anti-prose -- Majk Johansen “Podorozh doktora Leonardo i joho prekrasnoji koxanky Alchesty w Slobozhans'ku Ukrajinu” – ukraińska, constructivism in prose.
Visual art:
cubism, surrealism, expressionism, futurism, suprematism, construktivism:
- K.Malewicz
-F. Chagall
- M. Duchamp
- A. Archypenko
- J. Miro
-and many others

Cinema:
„In the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1919) – German expressionism
„Metropolis” (1927) - the first visions of the future in cinema
„Bronienosiets Potiomikin” (1925) – Eisenstein's vision of Soviet revolution, developing of the montage technique

Music:
Igor Stravinsky. Scandalous ’ “The Rite of the Spring” (1913). Dodecaphony. A theory of a new music –„Poetics of Music”.
Claude Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1912)

Ballet:
Dance as a subject of philosophy. Les Ballets Russes -- Sergey Diagilev (established in 1909).
Vaclav Nizhensky - a dancer and choreographer
First show of The Rite of the Spring in Paris in 1913

Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

Completion of studies for a licentiate’s degree. English language skills at the level of B1. Good command of German, French, Ukrainian and Russian will be regarded as an asset. In the course of seminar meetings, the student should gain extended knowledge on avant-garde artistic tendencies in literature and European art from the beginning of the 20th century until the outbreak of World War II.

Course coordinators

Lidia Stefanowska

Bibliography

Theory of the Avant-Garde, 1974.
Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of Modernity, 1987.
Fiction’s Many Worlds, Charles E.May ed., 1993.
Twentieth-century French Literature, Harry T. Moore ed., vol.1, 1966.
Concepts of Modern Art, 3rd edition, 1993.
Alan Bowness, Modern European Art, 1985.
Camilla Gray, The Russian Experiment in Art 1963-1922, 1986.
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism, 34 Drawings
Vaclav Nijensky, “Diaries”
Sergey Diaghlev, “Excerpts from Writings”

The Idea of Europe. From Antiquity to the European Union, A. Pagden (ed.), Cambridge Uniersity Press an Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Cambridge UK-Washington D.C. 2002.

The Invention of Tradition, E. J. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK 1993.

Awangarda w perspektywie postmodernizmu, Grzegorz Dziamski, red.

Ilnytzkyj, Oleh S. Ukrainian Futurism, 1914-1930. A Historical and Critical Study. Harvard Ukrainian Press, 1997. (Переклад на українську мову: Український футуризм, Київ 1997.)
Shkandrij, Myroslav. Modernists, Marxists and the Nation. The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s. CIUS, Edmonton 1992.

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