The Age of Anxiety

I. "The Great War" (World War One: 1914-1918).

A. The horrors of new technology.

B. Video excerpt: "J'Accuse" (1937; no reference to Alfred Dreyfus).

C. Poem: "Dulce et Decorum Est."

D. The art of Max Ernst and Kathe Kollwitz.

II. The Postwar Art Movements.

A. Dada: Marcel Duchamp.

B. De Stijl: Mondrian.

C. Surrealism.

1. Freud and Breton: The Surrealist Manifesto.

2. Artists: Dali, Miro.

III. New Trends in Sculpture.

A. The minimalism of Bruncusi, the biomorphism of Moore.

B. The linear world of Calder (video excerpt: "A Calder Circus).

IV.American Modernism.

A. Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe.

V. Modernist Literature.

A. T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Marcel Proust, e. e. cummings.

VI. Modernist Music.

A. Arnold Schoenberg and atonality (excerpt from Pierrot Lunaire).

VII. Fascism and Picasso's Guernica.

VIII. American Regionalism.

A. Painting: Hopper, Benton.

B. Literature: Faulkner, O'Connor.

IX. American Jazz.

A. Ragtime: Scott Joplin.

B. The New Orleans sound: Jelly Roll Morton.

C. The advent of the soloist: Louis Armstrong.

D. Jazz goes mainstream: Swing and Benny Goodman.

E. The Gibson revolution: Charlie Christian.

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