Schedule
Mon, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (1/9/2012 - 4/20/2012) Location: MAIN MAIN 160
Mon, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (1/9/2012 - 1/13/2012) Location: MAIN MAIN 225
Description
CS2023 | Humanities 3: Modernism in Literature, Art and Film
This seminar looks at the background, nature, evolution and multiple facets of modernism, and how these connect through the arts. The ways in which artists in all fields have responded to modernity is discussed, along with the impact of new technologies, art forms, and social and economic conditions. Students develop a faculty for literary, film and art criticism, and an awareness of the ways in which similar themes, techniques and world outlooks have recurred at different times in different media since the advent of modernism. The course operates at two scales, presenting the wider context for each topic as well as looking closely at strategies used by writers, artists and film-makers from Baudelaire to Wong Kar-Wai.