by Natalie Kopp | Jun 12, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Modernists, cubists, Dadaists, the many new and radical artistic moments from the early 20th century experimented and took advantage of the new and the old. One new art form they grabbed hold of was cinema. I just watched Ballet Mécanique, a highly influential...
by Katharina Biermann | Jun 11, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Léonide Massine: Reflections on Artistic Identity in 1924 What intrigues me the most about Leonide Massine is the conflict between the image of the gifted dancer and choreographer and the somewhat inapproachable, certainly difficult to get along with man. The son of...
by Breanna Olson | Jun 8, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Perhaps you’ve seen the iconic advertisement for Le Chat Noir in a French souvenir shop and thought, “that’s so French!” Maybe you’ve seen the infamous youtube star Henri the existentialist chat noir and thought, “that’s even more French!” Located in the bohemian...
by Philip Claussen | Jun 8, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a French composer from Normandy; he studied at the Paris Conservatory (which he despised) and in 1887 left his music publisher and amateur composer father and his stepmother (whom he found unbearable) to live in Montmartre (link to map), the...
by Natalie Kopp | Jun 7, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
There is no question that James Joyce played a major role in the 1920s literary scene in Paris. Moving there in 1920, he befriended and harnessed the aid of Sylvia Beach, owner of the now famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore and lending library. Beach took on the...
by smithdc | May 31, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
I once heard learning equated to the way computers with dial-up service could load information on the screen. There are two separate ways in which this could occur; the first method loads information line by line and it slowly stacks to reveal a picture bar by tedious...
