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How do you understand the term such as avant-garde?
Explain the emergence of early Romanticism (early 19th century) as a reaction against the art and philosophy of the Age of the Enlightenment.
Discuss the art of Romanticism in the context of Gothic revival (nationalism, darkness, loneliness)
Discuss various Romanticist and avant-garde traditions as a revolt against the status quo.
Give examples of movements and artists who represented the early avant-gardes of the 1900s-1920s
Explain Clement Greenbergs differentiation between avant-garde and kitsch.
Discuss the notions of the sublime and the beautiful according to E. Burke.
Explain the essence of neo-avant-garde (of the 1970s-2000s). In which aspects did the representatives of this movement see themselves as heirs of the avant-garde of the 1920s? How did they differ?
Explain Peter Eisenmans argument that Casa del Fascio by Giuseppe Terragni could be analyzed independently of its initial program that represented the fascist ideology.
Discuss major features of Renaissance-inspired ideal cities.
Discuss social ideas behind the projects such as Ch. Fouriers phalanstère, E. Howards Garden City, Le Corbusiers Ville radieuse.
Discuss the differences between the notions of classical and the activist utopias (according to C. Rowe and F. Koetter)
Discuss notions such as utopia and heterotopia (according to M. Foucault)
Explain Georg Simmel’s concept of the Metropolis and its relationship to the major urban-design traditions in the post-Renaissance Europe and North America.
How does the concept such as “junk-space” (Koolhaas) is related to the concept of utopias/ heterotopias / dystopias?
