Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2006-2007
FREN 423 - MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS/WRITERS
Long Title: MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS AND THEIR WRITERS
Department: French Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): FREN 311 OR FREN 312 or placement test or permission of instructor
Description: Fascinated by painting, modern and contemporary writers have produced significant literary commentaries that reveal affinities with painters whose artistic "questioning" they shared. In this course we will study some of the encounters between these painters and their writers. Among them: Picasso (commented by Apollinaire, Cocteau, Breton, Soller), Braque (commented by Ponge, Paulhan, Malraux, Saint John Perse), and others.