The Great War
History 1040
October - 12 There is no class as this is our "Fall Break" This is too difficult to even try and explain! LOL! There will be no Podcast. Instead you can use this free time to work on your mid terms.
October 14
Today's class will focus on:
For October 19:
Read click on first link on page for brief History of Otto Dix
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Death, Mud and the Trenches |
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Readings for 19 October
Download PowerPoint from Courseweb called "DADA and the Great War."
Ian F. W. Beckett, "War and Culture," in his The Great War 1914-1918 (Harlow: Longman, 2001), pp. 441-57 (on e-reserves).
F.T. Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism”, in Umbro Appollonio (ed.), Futurist Manifestos (second ed., Boston: MFA, 2001), pp. 19-24, (on e-reserves)
Vladimir Majakovski, “Slap in the Face of Public Taste”, in Anna Lawton (ed.), Russian Futurism through Its Manifestoes, 1912-1928 (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1988), pp. 51-52, on e-reserves
Tristin Tszara's DADA Manifesto on e-reserves
DADA at the MOMA- When the Lunatics Took Over the Asylum - Michael Kimmelman
RECOMMENDED:
DADA at the MOMA - Review of 2006 DADA Exhibit
DADA at the MOMA - brief analysis of DADA by City DADA in which DADA took hold
Lecture on New York DADA - 2006 - pp. 8-13
DADA Online - HUGE repository of DADA material
Wounded Visionaries from the Guardian Special Edition on the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice
Readings for 26 October: These are not required to be done before the 26 October, but you should have these all done by the 26 October when I return to class from Belfast as we will talk about them in class.
Barbarism: A Users Guide by Eric Hobsbawm on CourseWeb under Course Documents.
133-139 in Fero
113-159 in 14-18: Understanding the Great War
216-22- in Strachan
Read through accounts of the Armenian Genocide from Contemporary Accounts: http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1915/bryce/a00tc.htm. You do not need to read everything.