Course Schedule and Assignments

Week 1, January 25th, 2024

Introduction: What is Modern Art?

Homework:

1. Sign up for Manifold Reading Account and Dropbox Account – Email me at maura.mccreight@brooklyn.cuny.edu with screenshots confirming this when you’ve done both (due February 2nd, 2024)

2. Read: What is OER?

3. Watch: Why Open Education Matters

Week 2, February 1st, 2024

19th Century Precedents: Impressionism

• Baudelaire, Charles. Edited by Johnathan Maybe. Painter of Modern Life.  London, Phaidon, 1964 (excerpts, originally published 1863). Read Part I (Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness), III (The Artist: A Denizen of the World, a Denizen of the Crowd, yet a Child) and Part IV (Modernity).The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays 

• The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, “Fauvism” Essay Fauvism
• Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure (article) | Khan Academy

Week 4, February 15th, 2024

Cubism and Early Abstraction (Writing Seminar Day)

• Watch: “Pablo Picasso and the New Language of Cubism” SmartHistory, Picasso Guitar
• Rethinking Guernica
• Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War | DPLA

Homework:

1. Annotate one of the OER Writing Seminar chapters (Answer the question: Why should you write?) AND give an example of a formal analysis to “Les Demoiselles Avignon” by Picasso in Dropbox from the Cubism lecture

Week 5, February 22nd, 2024

No class – Monday schedule

Week 6 – February 29th, 2024

Futurism (OER Writing Seminar Day)

• Khan Academy, “Italian Futurism: An Introduction,”Futurism
• Mark Antliff, Shaping Duration: Bergson and Modern Sculpture

Homework (POSTPONED - Due March 14th):

1. Annotate on Manifold: Practice writing a thesis statement using the annotation function on this page, of this image (SCROLL DOWN!): Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), Georges Seurat (French), 1887–88

​​Week 7 – March 7th, 2024

Dada (OER Writing Seminar Day)

• Duchamp, Fountain (video) | Khan Academy

• Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany

• Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany (video) | Khan Academy

Homework (Due March 14th):

1. Annotate “Beer Belly of the Weimar Republic” by Hannah Hoch in the Dropbox Dada lecture

2. Annotate on Manifold: Practice writing a thesis statement using the annotation function on this page, of this image (SCROLL DOWN!): Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), Georges Seurat (French), 1887–88

Week 8 – March 14th, 2024

Surrealism

• Dali, The Persistence of Memory (video) | Khan Academy
• Giorgio de Chirico, "The Anxious Journey" (video) | Khan Academy
• Surrealism, an introduction
• Marcel Duchamp, Fountain by Camfield, William A

Homework:

1. Formal Analysis Paper due next week March 21st, 2024 (email these to me maura.mccreight@brooklyn.cuny.edu by EOD March 21st, 2024).
2. Formal Analysis Self-Grading Rubric will be completed in class on March 28th, 2024

Week 9, March 21st, 2024

Expressionism in Germany

• “Expressionism, an introduction” Shawn Roggenkamp
• “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin” by MoMA

DUE TODAY: Formal Analysis Midterm paper is due today EOD. Please email a copy to me maura.mccreight@brooklyn.cuny.edu when you're done even though this is self-graded (in class next week!), I still want to see that you've completed this on time.

Week 10, March 28th, 2024

Abstract Expressionism/Postwar American Art

• Paul Stella Abstract Expressionism
• Lee Krasner, Untitled, by Dr. Thomas Folland

• Formal Analysis Self-Grading Rubric will be completed in class today March 28th, 2024

Week 11, April 4th, 2024

CoBrA & Spatialism

• Karel Appel,Guggenhim Karel Appel 
• Asger Jorn: The crucial years: 1954-1964: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive

Week 12, April 11th, 2024

Lecture and OER Writing Seminar

Mini-lecture by Ateret Sultan-Reisler, PhD Student, The Graduate Center, CUNY

1. Homework:

Annotate the OER Writing Seminar text: Highlight and write a note about how you are going to tackle the 'fear of the blank page' for your final paper.

Week 13, April 18th, 2024

Library, Third Floor, Room 384 MAC Multimedia Classroom

Week 14, April 25th, 2024

No Class – Spring Recess

Week 16, May 9th, 2024

Library, Third Floor, Room 384 MAC Multimedia Classroom

OER Writing Seminar

Week 17 -  May 16th, 2024 FINALS

No class – Final Paper and Final Paper Self-Grading Rurbic due May 16th EOD (send both documents via email (maura.mccreight@brooklyn.cuny.edu) to me by May 16th, 2024