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 ***** 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 thier writers. Among them: Picasso (commented by Apollinaire, Cocteau, Breton, Soller), Braque (commented by Ponge, Paulhan, Malraux, Saint John Perse), and others. ***** Prerequisite: Fren 311 or 312 or AP credit or permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring 2005. ***** Instructor(s): Goux.