Modernism and the Arts

Description from DukeHub

This course places international modernism in an intermedial perspective, presenting it as a broad conversation among international artists across various art forms. In addition to reading major literary works by writers such as Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Joyce, Eliot, Kafka, Woolf, Wat, Babel, Rilke, Anand, Césaire, Lu Hsun, students will enhance their understanding of modernism through exposure to other art forms, such as painting (Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Kandinsky, Chagall, Schoenberg), sculpture (Rodin, Brancusi, Giacometti), music (Schumann, Débussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Gershwin), and film (Buñuel, Dali, Eisenstein, Vertov, Carné, Godard, Ruttmann, Cavalcanti, Vigo).

Skills

• makingdescription: "painting" and 1 more

AI-resilient: 3 of 5 3/5

• ✓Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "sculpture"
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• ✓Yes: A craft you practice with your hands or body · "painting"
• ✓Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 12 seats per section

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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