Charles Dellheim offers new graduate seminar
In the spring semester Professor Charles Dellheim will offer a new course under the rubric of “Problems in Twentieth-Century History” (GRS HI 743). This seminar examines a critical problem in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American cultural history: the origins and development of the modern movement. The central theme is the relationship between art and thought and social, political, economic, and technological change. Among the issues we will discuss are whether modernism was really a unified movement or if there were fundamental differences between its manifestations in different societies, forms, and genres; the role of cultural capitals, including Vienna, Paris, and New York; the impact of World Wars I and II on modernism; the emergence of Jews and other outsiders as significant cultural producers and brokers; and the economics of culture. We will begin with the origins of modernism in Paris in the 1860s and 70s and end with post-1945 New York. This interdisciplinary course should be of particular interest to students of history, literature, the visual and performing arts, and cultural studies. Mondays 12-3.