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This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

COURSE: THE AVANT-GARDE IN LITERATURE, PAINTING, AND FILM

DESCRIPTION: This course is a study of the Avant-Garde through the works of renowned artists in diverse disciplines including Buñuel, Picasso, Dalí, and Lorca, among others.

CONTENT:
UNIT 1. EUROPE IN THE 20TH CENTURY
1.1. Turn of the century crises and new advances
1.2. Ground-breaking movements

UNIT 2. ART, MAGNET FOR THE NEW
2.1. The futurist manifesto
2.2. Common characteristics in the Avant-Garde movements
2.3. Spanish contributions to the new trends
2.4. Gómez de la Serna: The concept of New Literature
2.5. The role of literary journals: Ultra, Revista de Occidente, La Gaceta Literaria, Ronsel and L’Amic de Les Arts

UNIT 3. EXPRESSIONISM
3.1. Ideology
3.2. Valle Inclán. Expressionist elements in Luces de Bohemia

UNIT 4. CUBISM
4.1. The painting of Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris
4.2. Literary cubism in Gerardo Diego, Jorge Guillén and Luis Cernuda

UNIT 5. SURREALISM
5.1. Dada, ethical and aesthetic reactions to the circumstances
5.2. The surrealist manifesto
5.3. Surrealist narrative and poetry: Aleixandre and Cernuda
5.4. Theatre
5.5. Film: Buñuel and Dalí
5.6. Painting: Dalí, Picasso and Joan Miró

UNIT 6. SPANISH MOVEMENTS
6.1. Creationism
6.2. Ultraism

UNIT 7. EXTENSION OF THE AVANT-GARDE
7.1. Surrealism in Hispanic America