4:00-6:30	M	BH 336

*Satisfies COAS Intensive Writing and requires registration in COAS
W333*
Meets with WEUR W406

This interdisciplinary course will focus on literature, painting,
sculpture, architecture, and the history of ideas.  The thematic focus
of the course will be on the concept of exhaustion, as it found
expression in the aesthetics of ruins, fragmentation, posthumousness,
and the end of art.  As formal expressions of such an artistic
mindset, attention will be paid to the techniques of open-endedness,
collage, pastiche, and bricolage.  Among the writers and artists
covered will be Beckett, Giacometti, Pirandello, Borges, Calvino, Eco,
Cioran, Barth, Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Hans Hollein,
Charles Moore, Bernard Tschumi, Gehry, and Isozaki.  Attention will be
paid to comparisons between pre-modern and post-modern, especially
with regard to Mannerism and Neo-Mannerism.