FACS 1900 B September 20th

Avant-gardes THE FUTURIST MODEL

"We shall set in motion the words-in-freedom that smash the boundaries of literature as they march towards painting, music, noise-art, and throw a marvelous bridge between the word and the real."

 

 

 

 
manifestos here http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/

art, war and ideas

1. art responds to trauma

- in the news this week
- Stockhausen
-the futurist manifesto on war

2. the futurists

a. who were the futurists?
b. reaction against dependence on the past
c. the first manifesto
d. futurism and the role of the artist
- new forms and blurring of artistic boundaries
- in poetry
- in synthetic theatre
- in cinema
etc.
- inspiring outrage

3. film: Vita Futurista

4. so what? legacies and connections

-- suggests importance of the impact of radically new forms of technology and the relationship to artists and expression

- relationship to dada and surealism, performance art, fluxus ...

- what connections do you see/can you imagine?

* to close...

- w.h. auden -- on the eve of war

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for next time:

assignment #1 due in tutorial

next class: the avant garde and Modernism (the Wood pieces) -- more specific discussion about the avant-garde -- what the term means, how it is used

Read the two woods articles in the kit -- if the kit isn't in, I will scan in *one* article for you to read. Look for it on Tuesday.