ARC 368R/388R
Four Masters of Modernism:
Le Corbusier, Stravinsky, Picasso, Balanchine

Instructor: Dr. Richard Cleary
Time and Location: T Th, Sutton 2.114

Office Hours:
M,W 11-12; T 1:30-2:30. Sutton 4.122. Tel. 471-6165. Email: cleary@mail.utexas.edu.

Prerequisites
Students within the School of Architecture must have completed the introductory history sequence. Students from other units of the university may enroll with the consent of the instructor.

Description
Pablo Picasso, George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, and Le Corbusier are inextricably identified with the concept of modernism in their respective fields of painting and sculpture, ballet, music, and architecture. This course introduces students to representative works by these masters and offers approaches for analyzing them. The study of individual artists and works will be linked by the broad theme of innovation and tradition in artistic creativity.

Educational Objectives
Understand principles underlying the works of Le Corbusier, Balanchine, Picasso, and Stravinsky; develop approaches for criticism of various art forms; sharpen skills for critical reading and analysis in unfamiliar subject areas; improve writing skills.

Evaluation
Assignments will include a series of position papers of about three pages in length responding to selected readings and four papers of about seven pages in length analyzing works by or themes pertaining to each artiste. One paper may be replaced by a project in another medium.

Texts (subject to change)
Howard Gardner, Creating Minds (New York: Basic Books, 1994).
Michael Oliver, Igor Stravinsky (London: Phaidon, 1995).
Roland Penrose, Picasso: His Life and Work (Berkeley: University of California, 1983).
Igor Stravinsky, Autobiography (New York: Norton, 1998).
Bernard Taper, Balanchine: A Biography (Berkeley: University of California, 1996).
Course reader available at Longhorn Copies, 26th and Guadalupe.