Humanities 304
Section 01 [HUM]
Spring 2016
MWF 1:10 – 2:00
Humanities / Foreign Languages
SLN 02326
Todd Hall 304
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
Hours: MWF 9:00 – 10:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
HUMANITIES
IN THE MODERN WORLD
January 11 — Introduction and Disorientation; L’Après-midi d’un faune.
Read the Course Description,
and my own Work Tips.
January 13 — Music: Late 19th Century to Debussy to Stravinsky.
January 15 — Art: Late 19th Century, Expressionism, Fauvism, Ashcan.[January 18 — Martin Luther King Holiday.]
January 20 — Colette, Chéri.
January 22 — Art: Cubism, Orphism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dada.January 25 — Metropolis.
January 27 — Colette, The Last of Chéri.
January 29 — Metropolis.February 1 — Metropolis.
February 3 — Art: Bauhaus, École de Paris, Art Deco.
February 5 — Music: Schoenberg, Bartok.February 8 — Sartre, No Exit.
February 10 — Art: Concrete Art, Social Realism, Surrealism & Dali.
February 12 — Jazz.[February 15 — St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 17 — Sartre, The Flies.
February 19 — Art: Art Brut, Existential, Organic Abstraction, Kinetic.February 22 — Electronic Music.
February 24 — Beckett plays.
February 26 — Fashion: Schiaparelli; Review.February 29 — Writing Advice.
March 2 — Midterm Exam & Essay.
March 4 — Art: Kitchen Sink School, Funk, Assemblage.March 7 — Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy.
March 9 — Pop Culture: Herpetophobia.
March 11 — Intermission.[March 14 – 18 — SPRING BREAK.]
March 21 — Music: New Virtuosity, Cage.
March 23 — Pop Art, Fluxus, Op Art.
March 25 — Complete Minimalism!March 28 — Performance Art; Minimalism in Music.
March 30 — Intermission.
April 1 — Churchill, Top Girls, Act I.April 4 — Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Body Art, Installation.
April 6 — Churchill, Top Girls, Acts II & III.
April 8 — Postmodernism; Laurie Anderson.April 11 — Super-realism, Earth Art, Video Art.
April 13 — Glass, Koyaanisqatsi.
April 15 — Late-Century Music: Scott, Daugherty.April 18 — High-Tech, Sound Art, Disposable Art, Digital Art, Internet Art.
April 20 — End-of-Semester Exam.
April 22 — No formal class meeting.April 25 — Churchill, This Is a Chair.
April 27 — End Game.
April 29 — Finale.
20th-Century Arts and Humanities Index
Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Clinical Professor, Department of English
delahoyd@wsu.edu
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