To watch with chapters “1923,” “1925a” and “1927c.”
July 2 REVOLUTION
To watch with chapters “1914,” (the Tatlin section), “1921b” and “1933.”
June 25 WAR
To watch with chapters “1916,” “1920” and “1925b.”
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 18 WORDS
To watch with chapters “1912,” “1927a” and “1928b”
June 11 ABSTRACT
June 9 PRIMITIVISM
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):
1914 (only the section on Duchamp, pages 139-41)


