History 1040

The Great War

Week #8

October 19:

We will focus our discussion of the "Response of the Arts to the Great War."

October 21: 

No Class today as I am in Belfast.  Instead of coming to class today you will:

• Download the Powerpoint "Descent into Barbarism" on Courseweb and bring it to class next Tuesday.
• Go to Courseweb, Podcasts and download and listen to the Podcast "Lecture On Mass Violence in the 20th Century."
  • 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."

For Tuesday the 26 October.

Read:

• Barbarism: A Users Guide by Eric Hobsbawm on CourseWeb.

• 124-139 in Fero

•  pp 113-159 in 14-18: Understanding the Great War

RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED: 

• Christopher J. Walker, Armenia: The Survival of a Nation (revised second edition, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990), pp. 197-240 (on e-reserves).

When I return on the 26 October for class we will follow up this discussion and go through it in class. Please listen to it in advance and then we will deal with it in class.

Readings for next Thursday 28 October - THESE ARE ALL VERY BRIEF

• Tristan Tzara, “Dada Manifesto”, in his Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (fifth ed., London et al.: Calder/Riverrun, 2003), pp. 3-13 (on e-reserves)

  

  • DADA Student Guide from the 2006 DADA travelling exhibit.

  • Brief Explanation of Cabaret Voltaire

  • http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture8.html - The Entire Lecture

  • Hugo Ball on DADA

  • DADA Manifesto-

  • Scroll down to Tristan Tzara's Manifesto

  • Emmy Hennings Poem - "Dancer"

  Listen to and watch:

  • Hugo Ball's sound poem- 'Gadji beri bimba'

  • Listen to DADA Poems
  • Go to Courseweb - Video Files - Max - Max and Art and also Max and the Avant Garde

  Recommended:

  • Watch these videos on DADA - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=00AD6EBD1B24834E - from YouTube.com