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June 23 DREAMS

Please note that this lecture involves themes of sexuality, as well as violence and misogyny. The latter unfortunately still plagues are world. During the lecture I try to maintain a certain amount of historical objectivity, while also making clear the unethical and problematic dimensions of some of these movements, notably Surrealism.

To watch with chapters “1900a,” “1924” and “1930b.”

June 9 PRIMITIVISM

Like the last lecture we start with an example from the history of music. So, take a moment to watch a bit of The Rite of Spring, in the original costumes and choreography:

 

Here are the chapters for this lecture:

1903

1907

1922

June 4 SHOCK

Towards the beginning of this lecture I tell you about Schoenberg’s SkandalKoncert in 1913. Pause the lecture and check out one of the pieces performed at the concert, by the composer Alban Berg, and see what you think:

 

And in order to give you a bit more time to get the textbook, I will give you PDF’s of the readings for the first couple lectures. Here are the chapters for this first lecture (SHOCK):

1906

1909

1914 (only the section on Duchamp, pages 139-41)