SYLLABUS LIT 151.02 / Spring 2005

January
Th 13 Introduction / Purpose of the course/ Short History
T 18 DADA's origins: History and Culture  (Neo-Realismus, Futurism, Constructivism, Zutism)
Th 20 The poetics of DADA: praxis and performance / Tzara (Zürich)
T 25 DADA's anti-languages: Dialectics of Revolt
Th 27 Semiotics of DADA's typographical Poetry
February
T 1 Collage , Montage: Picabia, Arp and artistic allegory    
Th 3 The politics of DADA (Berlin)
T 8 Propaganda, social Revolution and Agit Prop.
Th 10 Dada in Germany  (Schwitters' Merz) and Ernst < GIVEN>>
T 15 DADA and the "Arts"
  Th 17 The artistic aesthetics of DADA (New York) Pictures, Pictograms, Iconography
T 22 Return to the Primitive << PAPER DUE >>>
Th 24 The literary aesthetics of DADA (Paris)
March          
T 1 Intellectual Life in Paris circa 1920; The end of DADA
Th 3 You said "Surrealism"?
T 8 Freud meets Reverdy, literature wins
Th 10 Surrealist Manifesto: Automatic writing,
                        SPRING BREAK    
T 22 Breton et La Révolution Surréaliste
Th 24 Freud, Dreams , Collective << TOPICS GIVEN >>
T 29 The Spanish Connection
  Th 31 : Surrealist politics: Eluard, Aragon
April          
T 5 Second Surrealist Manifesto: The “EX” — Artaud, Bataille, Leiris << PAPER DUE >>>
Th 7 Dali and Paranoïa Critique
T 12  Surrealist "art"
Th 14 Dada & Surrealist Women Artists,
T 19 "Art Brut", "Art Naïf" and valuable 60’s schizophrenia.
Th 21 Art as an automatic process or under KONTROL?:
T 26     Surrealism, Post-surrealism // Modernism, Post-Modernism
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