IMAGES OF WOMEN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Hassold Term I, 2008-2009
UNIT 3: OTHERNESS AS UNCANNY: THE INANIMATE ANIMATED or
OH! YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL!
1817 The mechanical doll Olympia in E.T. Hoffmann's "The Sandman"
1866 The robot Hadaly in Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's Tomorrow's Eve
1884 Two Feminine Trains in Huysman's Against the Grain
1902 "The Indian" in Alfred Jarry's The Supermale
*1918 "The Fetish/Doll" of Kokoschka
*1914-19 "Machine Women" of Francis Picabia
*1915-23 "The Bride and her Bachelors" in Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare
by Her Bachelors, Even
1921 "Robots" in Karel Capek's R.U.R.
*1927 The robot "Maria" in Fritz Lang's Metropolis
*1928 "First Doll" of Hans Bellmer
1934 "Second Doll" of Hans Bellmer
*1970 "Manikins" of Pierre Molinier
*1969 "Female Furniture" by Allan Jones
*1960s on.."Nanas" by Nikki Saint-Phale
Assigned Readings:
Sigmund Freud, (1919) "The Uncanny," 219-252, Vol. 17, The Standard Edition of the Complete Works.
[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: BF 173 F6253 V. 17]
[ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]
Helene Cixous, (1975) "Fiction and its Phantoms: a Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The 'Uncanny')," 525-548, New Literary History, 7:3
[NEW COLLEGE PERIODICAL: PR 1 N44]
[ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]
Rosalind Krauss, (1985) "Notes on the Index, Part 1," 196-209 in The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths,
[USF/TAMPA LIBRARY: N 6490 .K727 1985]
[ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]
Foster, Hal. (1993) Chapter 1, "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," 1-17 in Compulsive Beauty. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1993.
NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: ordered July 2004
[ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE]
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SUGGESTED READINGS: THE UNCANNY
Rosemary Jackson, Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion, 1981, Methuen, London and New York,
Chapter 2, "The Fantastic as a Mode," 13-60.
[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PN 3435 J3]
SUGGESTED READINGS: DUCHAMP
Andre Breton, (1945), "Lighthouse of the Bride," 6-13, View Ser. 5, March 1945
[XEROX COPY]
Katia Samaltanos, Appolinaire Catalyst For Primitivism, Picabia and Duchamp, 1984, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984.
Chapter 3, "Apollinaire, Picabia and Duchamp," 61-105.
[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N 6469 P7 S26 1984]
SUGGESTED READINGS: PICABIA
W.I. Homer, (1975) "Picabia's Jeune Fille Americaine Dans L'Etat De Nudite and her Friends," 110-115, The Art Bulletin, March 1975
[XEROX ON LIBRARY RESERVE]
Spate, Virginia, Orphism: The Evolution of Non-Figurative Painting in Paris 1910-1914, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.
Chapter 3, "Psychological Orphism: Francis Picabia/ Marcel Duchamp," 275-339.
[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: ND 550 .S93]
SUGGESTED READINGS: LANG'S METROPOLIS
Andreas Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, Chapter 4, "The Vamp, and the Machine," Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1986
[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: NX 456 H89 1986]
Siegfried Kracauer, The German Film From Caligari to Hilter,
Chapter 12, "Frozen Ground," pp. 149-150;
Chapter 13, "The Prostitute and the Adolescent," pp. 163-164
[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: N 1993.5 G3 K7 1959]
Paul M. Jensen, The Cinema of Fritz Lang, Chapter 3, "The Silent Era (1925-1929)," pp. 58-69
[NEW COLLEGE LIBRARY: PN 1998 A3 L359]
C. Hassold, "Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS, A Futuristic Vision of the Human Situation,"
[COPY IN FOLDER]
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OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
1919 Woman in Blue
1922 Self-Portrait with Life Size Doll
FRANCIS PICABIA
1913 Undie
1913-14 "Little" Undie
1916-18 Machine Turn Quickly: 1. Woman 2. Man
1917 Amorous Parade
1917 Girl Born Without a Mother
1919 The Child Carburetor
MARCEL DUCHAMP
1911 Sonata
1911 Yvonne and Magdalene Torn in Tatters
1911 Coffee Grinder
1911 Sad Young Man on a Train
1911 Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 1
1912 Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2
1912 Passage from the Virgin to the Bride
1912 Bride
1913-1923 The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even or The Large Glass
Front and Back Views
The Bachelor's/ Lower Glass
Detail: The Occulist Witnesses
Detail: The Chocolate Grinder
Detail: The Glider and the Watermill
Detail: Nine Malic Moulds
COMPARE: 1913. Catalogue Manufacture Francais d'Armes and Cycles de Saint-Etienne,
Detail: The Sieves
Detail: Dust Breeding
The Bride/ Upper Glass
Detail: The Wasp
COMPARE: Veil
FRITZ LANG: Metropolis [film stills]
1927 Maria and Robotic Maria
HANS BELLMER
1934 First Doll/ Four Slides
PIERRE MOLINIER
1970 Manikins /Three Slides
ALLAN JONES
1969 Table Sculpture
1969 Hat Stand
NIKKI DE SAINT-PHALE
1953 Hon
1965 Ensemble 'Nanas'
1963 The Bride
1963 White Witch
1965 Dancing Black Nana
1985 Death