UHC Week 7

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:

Go to Courseweb, Podcasts and watch the lecture podcast "Descent into Violence"
- This podcast will begin to examine the origins of the Mass Violence of the 20th Century focusing on how the Great War and the total mobilization of society, heavily influenced by Social Darwinism, Imperialism and the waning of the Enlightenment led to the mass violence and the elimination of the line between civilian and combatant that we now accept as "normal."
Download the PowerPoint "Descent into Barbarism" on Courseweb to use along with the Podcast. Alsobring that PowerPoint to class next Tuesday 18 October
Download the PowerPoint "Origins of Mass Violence-Followup" - on Courseweb - PowerPoints. Bring that to class also on the 18 October.

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

Go to Couresweb- Course Documents and read Ernst Junger "Total War"
Read click on first link on page for brief History of Otto Dix
Watch the Following videos.

WAR	Death, Mud and the Trenches

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"

View the list of painters and their art

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/