100012 VO Lecture course: Modern German Literature: Avant-garde - Dynamisation of Arts (2015S)
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max. 999 participants
Language: German
Examination dates
Thursday
25.06.2015
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Friday
16.10.2015
Friday
16.10.2015
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal 31 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
Monday
01.02.2016
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal 7 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 7
Thursday
03.03.2016
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 7 Hauptgebäude, Hochparterre, Stiege 7
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Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Thursday
05.03.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
19.03.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
26.03.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
16.04.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
23.04.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
30.04.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
07.05.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
21.05.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
28.05.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
11.06.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
Thursday
18.06.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal 50 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8
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The label avant-garde is about to become the central concept of 20th century art, at least for some of its agglomerations in the periods from the tenths to the thirties and from the fifties to the seventies. This label can denote an epochal classification as well as a systematic determination of an artistic attitude. Both concepts are closely entangled and shall be examined by reference to significant examples in different arts.
The concept of avant-garde as a formative force cannot be clarified by definition, it has to be deduced from single phenomena. The lecture series will explore the following explanatory models:
- the concentration of different arts on their respective materials and mediality (whereby the meaning of the concepts material, medium, and form has to be explained)
- the intermediality of arts and the cooperation of artists (visual and performing arts, music, literature, film, fashion, etc.) as a constitutive factor of avant-garde
- the dissolution of the concept of (organic) artwork
- the relation between avant-garde, (art-) history, modernism, and post-avant-garde
- the dissolution of the category „art“ altogether, avant-garde artists changing sides from arts to sciences (as "renegade scientists"), but also to political or anarchistic activism
- art as an explanatory approach to phenomena that cannot be explained by sciences
- the role group formation, manifestos, personal confessions, and self-conceptions play for the avant-garde, the genealogical aspiration that can be found in the archives of the avant-garde
- the socio-historical and economical preconditions that lead to the emergence of avant-garde, and vice versa, the socio-historical impacts of the avant-garde
- avant-garde, or the end of avant-garde?
In the course of the lecture series, international and national scholars will deal with these and related questions. We will especially focus on phenomena of Viennese post-war avant-garde. We suppose that many of the well known movements in the US, in France, Great Britain, Germany, etc. were preformed in the Viennese avant-garde – as a pre-avant-garde, as a prototype of avant-garde.
The concept of avant-garde as a formative force cannot be clarified by definition, it has to be deduced from single phenomena. The lecture series will explore the following explanatory models:
- the concentration of different arts on their respective materials and mediality (whereby the meaning of the concepts material, medium, and form has to be explained)
- the intermediality of arts and the cooperation of artists (visual and performing arts, music, literature, film, fashion, etc.) as a constitutive factor of avant-garde
- the dissolution of the concept of (organic) artwork
- the relation between avant-garde, (art-) history, modernism, and post-avant-garde
- the dissolution of the category „art“ altogether, avant-garde artists changing sides from arts to sciences (as "renegade scientists"), but also to political or anarchistic activism
- art as an explanatory approach to phenomena that cannot be explained by sciences
- the role group formation, manifestos, personal confessions, and self-conceptions play for the avant-garde, the genealogical aspiration that can be found in the archives of the avant-garde
- the socio-historical and economical preconditions that lead to the emergence of avant-garde, and vice versa, the socio-historical impacts of the avant-garde
- avant-garde, or the end of avant-garde?
In the course of the lecture series, international and national scholars will deal with these and related questions. We will especially focus on phenomena of Viennese post-war avant-garde. We suppose that many of the well known movements in the US, in France, Great Britain, Germany, etc. were preformed in the Viennese avant-garde – as a pre-avant-garde, as a prototype of avant-garde.
Examination topics
Reading list
Association in the course directory
(I 1242, I 2240, I 2900)
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19. 3. Theorie und Vorgeschichte 1: Hubert van den Berg (Posen): Topographien zentral- und periphereuropäischer Avantgarde im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
26. 3. Theorie und Vorgeschichte 2: Marjorie Perloff (Los Angeles): Austrian 'avant-garde' between the two world wars
16. 4. Literatur: Thomas Eder (Wien): Avantgarde ist "Wiener Gruppe". Aktion und Theorie der "Wiener Gruppe" als paradigmatisches Definiens von Avantgarde
23. 4. Aktionismus: Hubert Klocker (Wien/Zurndorf): "er ist mein freund weil er den hammer schwingt - o.w. biegt um die ecke und trifft n." Hermann Nitsch und die Wiener Gruppe (Nachmittag: Führung durch die Hermann-Nitsch-Ausstellung im Theatermuseum)
30. 4. Archiv: Klaus Kastberger (Graz): Archive der Avantgarde
7. 5. Film: 14:30-17h Filmmuseum, 1. Augustinerstr. 1: Elisabeth Büttner: Der österreichische Avantgardefilm als partisanes Kino (Vorlesung mit Filmprogramm in Zusammenarbeit mit Alexander Horwath)
21. 5. Musik: Thomas Schäfer (Darmstadt): Die Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik als genuiner Ort der Avantgarde im Nachkriegsdeutschland
28. 5. Mode: Barbara Vinken (München): Avantgarde und Mode: Mit Riesenschritten in die Zukunft des Unisex?
11. 6. Museum: Dieter Bogner (Wien): Avantgarde im Museum/Museum als Avantgarde?
18. 6. Architektur: Gabriele Kaiser (Wien/Linz): "Der Bau" ist das Medium. Manifestationen der Avantgarde in Architekturzeitschriften der 1960er Jahre
25. 6. Prüfung