The Great War
History 1040
11 October: 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 first exam.
13 October:
No class because I am in Belfast. READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CLOSELY:
READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT WEEK:
For Tuesday the 18 October.
If you haven't already read the following as we will be discussing the Podcast in class when I return.
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 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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For Thursday 20 October
Download PowerPoint from Courseweb called "DADA and the Great War" before class and go through it.
Download Handout of Great War Poetry.
Read through this booklet. There are a number of poems. We will discuss them as part of the "Response of the Arts to the Great War" on the 25 October as part of the larger discussion on the Arts in the Great War. I will break this down and give you different poems that we will talk about in class. I will do that as part of the Podcast.
For an interesting take on how this poetry still resonates watch Pete Doherty of The Libertines perform Suicide in the Trenches.
For the Poets and Artists read:
Wounded Visionaries from the Guardian Special Edition on the 90th Anniversary of the Armistice
Browse "Art of the Great War"
For the DADA and the Futurists read:
DADA Student Guide from the 2006 DADA travelling exhibit.
DADA at the MOMA- When the Lunatics Took Over the Asylum - Michael Kimmelman
Tristin Tszara's DADA Manifesto on e-reservesF.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
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
Watch a Yale Lecture on the British War Poets - http://videolectures.net/yaleengl310s07_hammer_lec07/