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“From the modernism you chose you get the postmodernism you deserve.”�� David Antin

“If it is art, it is not popular.�� And if it is popular, it is not art.”�� Arnold Schoenberg.

Texts:��In Search of Lost Time—Marcel Proust,��
The Complete Stories—Franz Kafka.

In addition to these primary texts, I will also email assorted essays, including “The Dehumanization of Art” by Jose Ortega Y Gasset, “Creative Writers and Daydreaming,” by Sigmund Freud, “The Ideology of Marxism” by Georg Lukacs and “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” by Walter Benjamin.���� We will also screen Carl Theodor Dreyer’s��Le Passion de Jeanne D’Arc, and listen to excerpts from the work of Arnold Schoenberg.����

To begin to discuss even a few of the aesthetic concerns of the period known as Modernism in a single semester is a fool’s game.�� With such an explosion of radical formal and intellectual innovation and experimentation, the best we can hope for is to carve out a somewhat manageable slice of pie.����By necessity, we are forced to bracket, defer and ignore some of the most important texts, movements, authors, ideas, experiments, ideologies, technologies, developments, historical happenings etc etc etc of the time.�� We are leaving out��much��more than we are including.�� With these discussions, it is highly doubtful we will come to any sort of consensus or resting point.�� We will not master these texts as much as try to intelligently submit to them.