August 27:

• CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
      "On the Heroism of Modern Life"

September 1:

• FELIX FENEON
      "Neo-Impressionism"

• PAUL SIGNAC
      Excerpts from From Eugene Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism  

September 3:

• HENRI MATISSE
      "Notes of a Painter"

• GILL PERRY
      "The Decorative and the culte de la vie: Matisse and Fauvism"

September 15-17:

• GILL PERRY
      "The Expressive and the Expressionist"

September 22-29

• ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER
      "Brücke Program” and “Chronicle of the Brücke"

• RICHARD WAGNER
      "The Art-work of the Future"

October 1-6:

• JILL LLOYD
      "Urban Exoticism in the Cabaret and Circus"

October 8-13:

• WASSILY KANDINSKY AND FRANZ MARC
      "Preface to The Blue Rider Almanac"

• FRANZ MARC
      "The 'Savages' of Germany" and "Two Paintings"

October 15:

• WASSILY KANDINSKY
      "Excerpts from Concerning the Spiritual in Art"

October 22:

•  ADOLF BEHNE
      "German Expressionism"

October 27-29:

• PATRICK WERKNER
      "Body Language, Form and IDea in Austrian Expressionist Painting"

November 3:

• LUDWIG MEIDNER
      "Introduction to Painting the Metropolis"

• WALTER BENJAMIN
      "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

November 10-12:

• NOVEMBERGRUPPE
      Draft of the "Manifesto of the Novembergruppe"

• STEPHANIE BARRON
      "Introduction" to German Expressionism, 1915-25: The Second Generation

• IAN BURUMA
      "Faces of the Weimar Republic"

November 17:

• RICHARD HUELSENBECK AND RAOUL HAUSMANN
      "What is Dada and What Does it Want in Germany?"

• GEORGE GROSZ AND WEILAND HERZFELDE
      "Art is in Danger"

November 24:

• ELSA HERRMANN
      "This is the New Woman"

• DOROTHY ROWE
      "Desiring Berlin: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Germany"

December 1:

• BERTOLT BRECHT
      "Popularity and Realism"

• ANTON KAES
      "Metropolis: City, Cinema, Modernity"

December  3:

• GEORG SIMMEL
      "The Metropolis and Mental Life"

• GEORG LUCACS
      "Expressionism: Its significance and decline"

December 8:

• ADOLF HITLER
      "Speech Inaugurating the 'Great Exhibition of German Art'"

• STEPHANIE BARRON
      "1937: Modern art and politics in prewar Germany"

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