Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: French Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS AND THEIR WRITERS ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** Fascinated by painting, modern and contemporary French writers have produced significant literary commentaries that reveal affinities with painters whose artistic "questioning" they shared. Those commentaries in turn enlightened their own aesthetic concerns as well as the painters' own creative visions. The purpose of this course is to study some of the encounters between these painters and their winters. Among them: Picasso (commented by Apollinaire, Cocteau, Breton, Sollers, etc.), Braque (commented by Ponge, Paulhan, Malraux, Saint John Perse). Matisse (commented by Aragon, Pleynet), Magritte (analyzed by Foucalt and Butor), and Rebeyrolle (by Sartre, Foucalt).