| 1 | Avant-garde | |
| 2 | Manifesto of the Communist Party (1872) | |
| 3 | Futurism | Oral presentations |
| 4 | Eisenstein | First essay outline due in class
Oral presentations
First essay due (at end of week) |
| 5 | Kandinsky (1886-1944) | Oral presentations |
| 6-7 | Mass Culture and Woman | Oral presentations by one student
Revision of first essay due (at end of week) |
| 8 | Autonomous Art Movements & the Historical Avant-garde | Oral presentations |
| 9 | Georges Bataille (1897-1962) | Second essay outline due in class |
| 10 | Mary Ann Caws, "The Poetics of the Manifesto: Nowness and Newness." | Oral presentations
Second essay due (at end of week) |
| 11 | Theory of the Avant-garde (Bürger, 1974) | Third essay outline due in class
Oral presentations |
| 12 | Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) | Oral Presentations |