THEA 324 - The Concept of the Avant-Garde

Next Offered: Spring 2012
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU
A seminar examining the cultural and political forces of the late 19th and early 20th century which helped create an ‘adversarial’ relationship between ‘avant-garde’ artists and middle-class society. The course focuses on those modernist movements that affected painting and literature as well as the performing arts. Major issues to be explored include: the relationship of the avant-garde to radical politics as well as to popular culture, the tension between abstraction and representation, and the fate of the avant-garde in the age of post-modernism.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: R. Copeland
Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes