HART0201 The Arts of Living - Indicative Weekly Topics and Suggested Reading

Indicative Weekly Reading

1.    Introduction: Life and Animation in Modern Art and Art history
2.    Abstraction, Empathy, Inorganic Life (Expressionism)
3.    Photography, Biology, History (New Vision)
4.    Eco-Sexualities, Living Landscapes  (French and Czech Surrealism)
5.    Living Objects, Ethnography (French Surrealism, Negritude)
6.    Animism, Animation and Materiality in Film (Soviet and German Avant-garde Film)
7.    Architectures of Life (Neues Bauen, Constructivism)
8.    Materiality, Femininity, Craft (Constructivism, Bauhaus)
9.    New Humans/Machines (Dada, Weimar cinema)
10.  Post-war Developments 

Suggested Reading

TBC