VH_301 Life and Art in Modernist Paris

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Elena Khokhlova, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alena Taranzová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 15:50–17:25 N41
Prerequisites
Students should have sufficient knowledge of written and spoken English to listen to lectures, participate in discussions, read and analyze suggested literature and write essays.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 120 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/120, only registered: 0/120, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/120
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Course objectives
The overall goal of the course is to get students familiar with the changes in art and culture that occurred during the interbellum period in Europe.

At the end of the course students will be able to:

- explain and analyze the concept of modernity;
- distinguish “academism” and “modernity” and explain the conflict between the two;
- participate in discussions about the culture and specific art movements of fin-de-siècle and interbellum (impressionism, post-impressionism, fauvism, expressionism, cubism, surrealism, suprematism, etc.);
- understand and describe specific cultural items and ideas of Parisian Belle Epoque and modernism (Montmartre, cabaret, flaneur, dendy, bohème, dada, absurdism, Paris Salon, etc.);
- derive interconnections between the beginning of modernist era in Paris and contemporary culture and art.

Students will also learn about music, choreography and stage design of Russian ballets and operas presented in Paris. They will get familiar with the significant figure of world reknown impressario and art manager Serge Djaghilev and his friends Cocteau, Picasso, Matisse, Sert, stravinsky, Chaliapin, Chanel, Benois, Bakst, et
Syllabus
  • Paris
  • 0. City: general concepts
  • 1. Street: fashion, dendy, flaneur, voiyerism, community
  • 2. Gallery: Belle Epoque, Paris Salon, exhibition, revolt
  • 3. Cafe: literature, advertisement, newspaper, people
  • 4. Cabaret: dance, music, chants, clubs
  • 5. Theater: criticism, stage, design, costumes, drama, play
  • Boheme
  • 6. Cosmopolitan community in Paris: Hemingway, Stravinsky, Chanel Picasso, Balanchine, Cocteau.
  • 7. Diaghilev and his club
  • 8. Ballets Russes: opera
  • 9. Ballets Russes: ballets (i)
  • 10. Ballets Russes: ballets (ii)
  • 11. Final project: Parisian cafe in the modernist era.
Literature
  • MCAULIFFE, Mary Sperling. Dawn of the Belle epoque : the Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and their friends. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, xvi, 387. ISBN 9781442209282. info
  • Esprit Montmartre : Bohemian life in Paris around 1900. Edited by Ingrid Pfeiffer - Max Hollein. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2014, 319 stran. ISBN 9783777421964. info
  • MCAULIFFE, Mary Sperling. Twilight of the Belle epoque : the Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and their friends through the Great War. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, xii, 417. ISBN 9781442221635. info
  • POTOLSKY, Matthew. The decadent republic of letters : taste, politics, and cosmopolitan community from Baudelaire to Beardsley. 1st ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 232 s. ISBN 9780812244496. info
  • LEIGHTEN, Patricia Dee. The liberation of painting : modernism and anarchism in avant-guerre Paris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013, xviii, 226. ISBN 9780226002422. info
  • CADDY, Davinia. The Ballets Russes and beyond : music and dance in belle-époque Paris. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, xvi, 237. ISBN 9781107014404. info
  • BELL, Robert. Ballets Russes : the art of costume. Edited by Christine Dixon. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2010, 264 s. ISBN 9780642541574. info
  • DAVIS, Mary E. Ballets Russes style : Diaghilev's dancers and Paris fashion. 1st pub. London: Reaktion Books, 2010, 256 s. ISBN 9781861897572. info
  • A journey into Matisse's south of France. Edited by Laura McPhee. Berkeley, Calif.: Roaring Forties Press, 2006, vii, 136 p. ISBN 0976670690. info
  • Decadent subjectsthe idea of decadence in art, literature, philosophy, and culture of the fin de siáecle in Europe. Edited by Charles Bernheimer - T. Jefferson Kline - Naomi Schor. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, xviii, 227. ISBN 0801867401. info
  • WALSH, Stephen. Igor Stravinsky : a creative spring : Russia and France 1882-1934. London: Pimlico, 2002, xvii, 698. ISBN 0712667237. info
  • The ballets russes and its world. Edited by Lynn Garafola - Nancy Van Norman Baer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, viii, 420. ISBN 0300061765. info
  • The decadent reader : fiction, fantasy, and perversion from fin-de-siecle France. Edited by Asti Hustvedt. 2nd print. New York: Zone books, 1998, 1088 s. ISBN 1890951072. info
  • SCHOUVALOFF, Alexander. The art of ballets Russes : the Serge Lifar Collection of theater designs, costumes, and paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1997, 352 s. ISBN 0300074840. info
  • ELDERFIELD, John, Riva CASTLEMAN and William S. LIEBERMAN. Matisse in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art : including remainder-interest and promised gifts. Edited by Georges Matisse. New York: Museum of modern art, 1978, 232 s. ISBN 0870704702. info
  • BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Selected poems : Baudelaire. Edited by Joanna Richardson. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975, 256 s. info
  • MYERS, Rollo H. Erik Satie. 5. éd. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1959, 200 s. info
Teaching methods
The course represents a set of lectures with open discussions. During the lectures students will be systematically provided with various information regarding the topic of the course, including illustrations, timetables, texts and videos devoted to the modernism in Paris. The lecturer will keep record of attendance.

Most of the lessons will have a form of mixed lecture and seminar. It means that the lecturer will introduce the micro topic of each lecture, offer multimedia regarding the topic and open free discussion where students will be asked to analyze what they've seen and heard and share their impressions and thoughts on the matter.
Assessment methods
Students will be responsible to read suggested literature and analyze given multimedia. Each student will be asked to work on a small project of his own. The project is a set of short essays and a creative presentation that may be prepared and performed in a group. To successfully compose the essays students will need to attend the lectures and participate in discussions, make a small research, gather additional information on their own and write down their critical thoughts based on what they managed to find out.
The author or group of students authoring exceptionally good project will pass the exam automatically.
Other students will have a spoken exam in the end of semester.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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