Spanish 366 - COMPARATIVE TOPCS/SPN/PORT LIT

Topics Course The Spanish Revolution and Civil War (1936-39) is a privileged site to study the connection between art, utopia, war and politics. An immense amount of music, films, poetry, photographs, novels and paintings (such as Picasso's mural Gernika), were inspired by it. Artists from all over the world came together with a common optimistic purpose to transform it.  In this class we study: how people expressed and acted on their dreams of an ideal society; why many international avant-garde artists were so heavily invested in the project and how they challenged established conceptions of literature and the plastic arts; how this "internationalist" legacy and its suppression are remembered in contemporary films and novels; the relation of it all with contemporary anti-establishment movements such as Podemos, the Indignados or Occupy Wall Street. Course conducted in Spanish. Enrollment limited to 14.

Topic: Art, Revolution and the Spanish Civil War.