SYLLABUS LIT 151/ Spring 2007

Th 11:55- 2:25  Language Center 305

January
Th 11

Introduction / Purpose of the course/ Short History

DADA's origins: History and Culture  (Realismus, Futurism, Expressionism, Constructivism, Zutism)

"Dada"
Th 18 The poetics of DADA: praxis and performance / Tzara (Zürich)

DADA's anti-languages: Dialectics of Revolt

 
Th 25 Semiotics of DADA's:  typographical & (eu) phonic poetry; Hugo Ball "Collage"
February Th 1 Collage , Montage: Film  
  Th 8 Picabia, Arp and artistic FIGURATION  Dada/Tzara Film <TOPICS GIVEN>>
Th 15 The politics of DADA (Berlin)

 

 
Th 22 Dada in BERLIN (social Revolution)

 

March

Th

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DADA in Germany (Berlin, Hanover, Kőln). Richter, Hertzfeld, Grosz, Hausmann, Schwitters' MERZ, Ernst,

Propagandada,  and Agit Prop

DADA and the "Arts"

Film
Th 8 The visual aesthetics of DADA (New York) Pictures, Pictograms, Iconography (Stieglitz, Duchamp, )

Return to the Primitive

<< PAPER DUE >>>
                                SPRING BREAK  
Th 22 The literary aesthetics of DADA (Paris); Intellectual Life in Paris circa 1920; The end of DADA Film  
Th 29 You said "Surrealism"? Freud meets Reverdy, literature and ID wins

Surrealist Manifesto: Automatic writing, Breton et La Révolution Surréaliste

   
April Th 5  Surrealist politics: Eluard, Aragon; is there a "Surrealist art" as an automatic process or under KONTROL?

The Spanish Connection: Dali and Paranoïa Critique, Miró Bunuel

Film
  Th 12 Second Surrealist Manifesto: The “EX” — Artaud, Bataille, Leiris;

Surrealist Women Artists,

<< TOPICS GIVEN >>
Th 19 "Art Brut", "Art Naïf" and valuable 60’s schizophrenia.

 Post-surrealism // Modernism, Post-Modernism

Film  
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