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Critical Studies Stage 1

FAP 110 & 111

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Lecture Notes:
• Beuys
• Sophie Calle - a short guide
• Philosophy (an overview)
• Modernism/
Postmodernism

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Modernism/Postmodernism
by Paul Ramsay
 
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A useful 'way in' to difficult subjects is provided by the 'Introducing' series published by Icon Books, the 'For Beginners' series published by Steerforth Press (previously published by Writers and Readers publishing inc.) and the 'Very Short Introduction' series from Oxford University Press.

These provide an excellent overview of their subjects in a lively and intelligent way. Two of them use a comic book format which is effective and yet does not trivialise or over-simplify the subject matter.

It must be stressed however that they should be used to provide the basis for further reading and research and not be the only source you use.


Links:

Etymology
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/etymology
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=a

Modernism
http://www.artmovements.co.uk/modernism.htm
http://www.artsmia.org/MODERNISM/
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/roots.html

Modernist painting key example:
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79766

Modernism in music:
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/modernmusic.htm
http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/Arnold_Schoenberg_21169/21169.htm

Postmodernism
http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/postmodernism.htm
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/pomo.htm
http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html

Womanwords
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Womanwords-Vocabulary-Culture-Patriarchal-Society/dp/1853812749/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224011243&sr=8-1

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5D71539F932A05756C0A964958260
(example of how one has to be careful when researching)


Composers
Suggested Modernist:
Schoenberg
Suggested Impressionist:
Debussy
Suggested Surrealist:
Satie

Suggested Postmodernist:
John Zorn


For further references see my lecture 'The Word'



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