Section 01 [HUM]
Spring 2025
MWF 1:10 – 2:00
Humanities 304
SLN 02151
Avery 111 (The Bundy Reading Room)
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
Hours: MWF 10:00 – 11:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
IN THE MODERN WORLD
January 6 — Introduction and Disorientation; L’Après-midi d’un faune.
Read the Course Description, and my own Work Tips.
January 8 — Music: Late 19th Century to Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky.
January 10 — Art: Late 19th Century, Expressionism (AE), Fauvism (PK), Ashcan (MT).
January 13 — Kafka; Colette, Chéri.
January 15 — Art: Cubism (SB), Orphism (TM), Futurism (), Dada (JS).
January 17 — Metropolis.
[January 20 — Holiday.]
January 22 — Colette, The Last of Chéri.
January 24 — Metropolis.
January 27 — Art: Bauhaus (JB), École de Paris (TM), Art Deco (MS).
January 29 — Metropolis.
January 31 — Art: Concrete Art (RR), Social Realism (LK), Surrealism (JS) & Dali.
[February 3 — No Class.]
February 5 — Sartre, No Exit.
February 7 — Music: Schoenberg, Bartok. [Zoom.]
February 10 — Art: Art Brut (JR), Existential (WB), Organic Abstraction (BH), Kinetic (EH).
February 12 — Sartre, The Flies.
February 14 — Jazz and Electronic Music.
[February 17 — St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 19 — Writing Advice.
February 21 — Review.
February 24 — Midterm Exam & Essay. [Zoom.]
February 26 — Art: Kitchen Sink School (), Assemblage (), Funk Art (). [Zoom.]
February 28 —
March 3 — Beckett plays: Krapp’s Last Tape, That Time.
March 5 — Music: New Virtuosity, Cage.
March 7 — Office Hour.
[March 10 – 14 — Spring Break.]
March 17 — Pop Art (ML), Fluxus (), Op Art ().
March 19 — Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
March 21 — Minimalism in Music; Riley, In C: Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.
March 24 — Churchill, Top Girls, Act I.
March 26 — Minimalism (EIm), Conceptual Art (TM), Body Art (), Installation ().
March 28 — Postmodernism (); Performance Art (FZL), Laurie Anderson.
March 31 — Churchill, Top Girls, Acts II & III.
April 2 — Earth Art (), Site Works (), Super-realism (TO), Video Art ().
[April 4 — Conference.]
April 7 — Sound Art (VF), High-Tech (.), Disposable (), Digital (NC), Internet Art ().
April 9 — Late-Century Music: Scott, Daugherty.
April 11 — Kinetic Architecture (), Fashion (Total Class Option), Food (Total Class Option).
April 14 — Churchill, This Is a Chair.
April 16 — Review.
April 18 — End-of-Semester Exam. [Remote.]
April 21 — Final Essay Due. Mod Games.
April 23 — Optional Zoom: What I Did on My Summer Vacations.
April 25 — The rest is silence.