In the beginning of the Modernist era there was an unprecedented outpouring of experimentalism in the arts, including architecture, design, painting, music, literature, and the very new art form of film.
Here are some links to materials we will talk about in our first class session. BLAST! was a project of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. You will find the complete first and second issues here, and a little bit goes a long way. We will talk about this over two class sessions, so just start by getting a taste of the two issues. Listen also to the work of Satie, Hindemith and Schoenberg.
In class we will discuss all this, and look at a few clips from the work of film pioneer Georges Méliès.
