Main Topics for Discussion (Session 3)

1. Importance of context in artistic interpretation and the viewing of art. [1-6]

2. The concept of the modern.

• subject and treatment [8]

3. Construction of the concept of modernity (Baudelaire and Zola). [9f; 18f]

• Boccioni vs. Picasso [10f]
• Malevich vs. Kustodiev [12ff]
• Modern "tradition": Greenberg and the self-critical criterion. [13ff]

4. Concepts, Representations, and Descriptions [15ff]

• Buchon (iconography; description; imaginative narration)
• Zola ("realism"; attention to formal aspects of Manet's paintings)