Topics For Second Paper

Paper #2 [30%]
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Proposed Topics (select one)

1. Explain how Dada in the US created « American MOdern Art. »

2. Dada / Surrealism and photography

3. Women's contributions to Dada and Surrealism and the image of the « woman » in the surrealist productions.

4. DADA in New York and American "primitivism"

5. The importance of Picabia in Dada and Surrealism

6. Surrealism and its relationships with social activism (1920-1930)

7. The concept of "words knocking at the window" and its importance for early surrealism.

8. The politics of the Second Manifesto.

9. What do we really mean when we say that "This is very surrealist"?

10. Surrealism and painting.

11. Surrealist films.

12. The importance of dreams and demented state in the surrealist aesthetics.

13. Surrealism in America.

14. The importance of the "image" (and Dali's "double image") for the surrealist movement.

15. The impossible worlds of Dali and Magritte.

16. Surrealist sexuality and concept of "love".

17. In your opinion, is it a mistake to link Dada and Surrealism under the same rubric. Are these two intellectual movements related? Use specific examples in your argumentation?