1 HA 298-003: Special Topics DADA AND SURREALISM Spring 2011 160 Withers Hall Tu/Th 8:30-9:45 Office hours:

Tuesday 1-3pm, and by appointment. Phone: 513-2237 Dr. Laurel Fredrickson ljfredri@ncsu.edu Office: Withers 252

[This syllabus is subject to revision. Check for updates on Moodle.] COURSE DESCRIPTION The history of the international movements of Dada and Surrealism examined in light of the art, literature, theory, and politics of these movements from WWI into the 1960s. Within Dada, the course will explore the origins of the movement in Zurich and New York during the First World War and its expansion to Paris, Hanover, and Berlin after 1918, considering how differing cultural and political circumstances affected its development. Students will be introduced to art, actions, films, and primary texts by such key figures as Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Hannah Hch, and Richard Huelsenbeck, as well as by such close associates as Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. For Surrealism, students will study art, film, and literature in relation to such key texts as Sigmund Freuds Interpretation of Dreams, Andr Bretons Surrealist manifestos, and tracts from the 1920s into the 1960s. The course will expand beyond Europe to consider art and writing produced by non-Europeans like Wilfredo Lam, Aim Csaire, Okamoto Taro, Maya Deren, and Frida Kahlo, among others. REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS --- Matthew Gale, Dada and Surrealism (Phaidon, 1997). --- Sarane Alexandrian, Surrealist Art (Thames and Hudson, 1970). --- Leah Dickerman, ed. Dada (Centre Pompidou, National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, 2007) COURSE REQUIREMENTS GRADING PERCENTAGES Participation 10% 3 Quiz/Exams 30% (10% each) Quiz 1 - February 3 Quiz 2 - March 1 Quiz 3 - April 7 Final: Take-Home Exam 20% 2 -- Group Presentations 20 % o Dada: February 17 and February 22 o Surrealism: April 26 and April 28 2 -- 5 to 7 page papers 10% each (20% total) o First: Due March 17 Dada topic o Second: Due April 19 Surrealism topic Reading Response papers (5 in total); Film Reviews (3 in total).

2 PAPERS Select and research an artwork that you find interesting for visual, material, or topical reasons, and about which you feel strongly, either positively or negatively. Include a visual description upon which you build an analysis. Your paper should demonstrate careful looking and consideration of key terms and concepts, introduced in class and through readings. Explore the meaning or content of the work, including its symbolism and the context of its production. Consider cultural, social, religious, political, and historical influences. Relate the work(s) to this context that gave it meaning. Present and develop a critical argument about your chosen work, using vocabulary and ideas drawn from the textbooks and other sources. CREDIT ALL SOURCES. Use MLA style or Chicago Manual of Style Quoting without attribution (in quotation marks), either in footnotes or through in-text citations (MLA form), constitutes plagiarism! Please be very careful. When you use an idea from a book or article you must also cite your source. Please include provide a bibliography and Images. Present and develop a critical argument. State as a thesis. Draw from ideas and theories covered in the class. Place your subject in an art historical, political, and social context. Cite your sources in footnotes and in a bibliography You must use a minimum of 8 print sources (4 books and 4 substantive essays - Essays of 1 page or less are in adequate. They do not give you enough information from which to work. You may use Internet sites, but these must be substantive and authoritative (no blogs). Cite the URL, institution, and date accessed. Avoid Wikipedia, for anything but getting started with your research. Images are required.

GROUP PRESENTATIONS: Presentations should be in PowerPoint or PDF with approximately 5 pages of text. Include images with names of artists, titles, dates, media, and any other relevant information. Research should produce a cohesive and articulate presentation. Turn in your PowerPoint and paper on the date of your presentation. (In person or on Moodle.) Each participant needs to use at least 4 PRINT SOURCES (articles or books) for information. You may use your textbooks and authoritative Internet sites as sources.

You will be broken into groups and choose topics on the third day of class.

3 PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE Exams are drawn from reading assignments and lectures. Keeping up with your reading (before each lecture as questions arise in class) and attendance is required. Lectures contain information that is not in the readings. 3 unexcused absences are allowed per semester. If you miss the first two classes without informing me you will automatically be dropped from the class. If you miss a class you must contact me by the next class, so that I know that you are attending. If I do not hear from you, you must drop the class. I am required to fail you if your name remains on the roster at the end of the semester. More than 3 unexcused absences and I will assume you have dropped. Attendance is taken at the beginning of each class. If you are not present for roll you will be counted absent. Names cannot be added after class. Do not leave during class or leave early. 3 times tardy and/or leaving early will count as one absence. Additional absences and excessive times late to class will lower your class grade by 2 points. Thus with 5 absences and a grade of 90 you will receive an 80 as the final grade. You cannot miss more than 6 classes or you will have failed to fulfill class requirements. You will be administratively withdrawn. Excused absences require a note within a week of the absence from a physician, physician's assistant, or medical facility or other comparable authorizing agent. Failure to do so results in an unexcused absence. (Do not schedule meetings, even with advisors or job interviews, during class time. These are not acceptable excuses.) Exceptions require advance official notification. I have the option to accept or refuse an excuse, according to university policy. If you have medical or emotional problems please inform me immediately.

COURSE POLICIES Electronics are not permitted in class (computers, cell phones, I-Pods). Please take notes on paper. Any exceptions must be approved in advance. (The first time you use this equipment I will take the item away. The second time you will be administratively dropped from the class.) Papers are due at the beginning of class. Please do not arrive late! Late papers will be reduced a half letter grade if turned in after class and a full letter grade for each subsequent day that they are late. Make-up tests and quizzes must be arranged in advance or immediately following the absence, with proper documentation: a written excuse from a doctor or academic advisor. If you are not on the roll, your work will not be graded.

Students with disabilities please see: http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/academic_affairs/courses_undergrad/REG02.20.1.php

4 Please abide by the NCSU Honor Code http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/student_services/student_discipline/POL11.35.1.php PLAGIARISM 10.1 Submitting written materials without proper acknowledgment of the source. 10.2 Deliberate attribution to, or citation of, a source from which the referenced material was not in fact obtained. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY 7.1 The free exchange of ideas depends on the participants' trust that they will be given credit for their work. Everyone in an academic community must be responsible for acknowledging their use of others' words, research results, and ideas, using the methods accepted by the appropriate academic disciplines. Since intellectual workers' words and ideas constitute a kind of property, plagiarism is like theft. 7.2 Furthermore, as a reader you may want to follow other writers' paths of research in order to make your own judgments about their evidence and arguments. You will depend on those writers' accuracy and honesty in reporting their sources. In turn, your readers will depend on yours. 7.3 The free exchange of ideas also depends on the participants' trust that others' work is their own and that it was done and is being reported honestly. Intellectual progress in all the disciplines demands the truthfulness of all participants. 7.4 Plagiarism and cheating are attacks on the very foundation of academic life, and cannot be tolerated within universities. Section eight (8) of the Code defines academic dishonesty and provides information on potential sanctions for violators of academic integrity. DEFINITIONS OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY 8.1 Academic dishonesty is the giving, taking, or presenting of information or material by a student that unethically or fraudulently aids oneself or another on any work which is to be considered in the determination of a grade or the completion of academic requirements or the enhancement of that student's record or academic career. 8.2 A student shall be guilty of a violation of academic integrity if he or she: a. represents the work of others as his or her own. 8.3 The act of submitting work for evaluation or to meet a requirement is regarded as assurance that the work is the result of the student's own thought and study, produced without assistance, and stated in that student's own words, except as quotation marks, references, or footnotes acknowledge the use of other sources. Submission of work used previously must first be approved by the instructor. 8.5 If in doubt regarding any matter relating to the standards of academic integrity in a given course or on a given assignment, students shall consult with the faculty member responsible for the course before presenting the work. CHEATING 9.1 Copying from someone else's test or examination paper. 9.2 Possessing, buying, selling, removing, receiving, or using, at any time or in any manner not prescribed by the instructor, a copy or copies of any materials (in whole or part) intended to be used as an instrument of academic evaluation.

5 DATES January 11 January 13 TOPICS Introduction Dada and Surrealism Themes and Materials Dickerman: 1-15. REQUIRED READINGS

January 18

Avant-Garde/Modernism Gale: 5-32. Terms and Precedents Groups form and choose topics. Dada in Zurich: Cabaret Voltaire Dickerman: 18-44. Look at plates on pp. 41-83. Ball and Tzara readings on Moodle. Reading Response due Huelsenbeck and Ribemont-Dessaignes readings on Moodle. Reading Response due. Gale: 83-114; Taylor (Dietrich, ed): 277-298. Plates on pp. 299-345. Gale: 115-170. Doherty (Dietrich, ed): 86-112. Plates on pp. 113-153. Quiz 1 Film Review due February 8 Dietrich: 157-178. Plates on pp. 179-213. Kriebel (Dietrich, ed): 217-236. Plates on pp. 237-273. Gale: 173-212. Group Presentations: DADA Group 1:

January 20

January 25

Performance and Provocation

January 27

Dada in New York

February 1

Dada: Berlin

February 3 February 8

Dada Films Dada: Hanover

February 10

Dada: Cologne

February 15 February 17

Dada: Paris

Group 2:

Group 3:

6 DATES February 22 Group 4: TOPICS REQUIRED READINGS Group Presentations: DADA

Group 5:

Group 6:

February 24

Dada into Surrealism

Mileaf/Witkovsky (Dietrich, ed): 348-372, Plates on pp. 373-415. Gale: 215-264. Freud on dreams: on Moodle Reading Response due. Quiz 2

March 1

Surrealism: Beyond Reality

March 3 March 7-11 March 15

Surrealism: 1920s Spring Break

Alexandrine: 47-93.

Films: L'Age d'or and Chien Andalou Film Review (due March 17)

March 17

Surrealism: Desire and Revolution

Gale: 266-302.

Paper 1 Due: Dada topic March 22 Surrealism: 1930s Alexandrine: 94-118. Magritte reading on Moodle. Reading Response due.

March 24 March 27 March 31

Topic to be announced. Surrealist Revolution: Internationalism Gale: 305-352.

Film: Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid "Meshes of the Afternoon. Film Review: Due April 5

April 5

Post-War Surrealism

Gale: 401-424.

7 DATES April 7 TOPICS Surrealist Objects and Exhibitions REQUIRED READINGS Alexandrine: 140-161. Gale: 355-398.

Quiz 3 April 12 Post-War Surrealism: Politics 1950s and 1960s -Jean-Jacques Lebel: Surrealism, Anti-Algerian War Activism, the Happening and the Student/Worker Movement of Paris 1968 Women and Surrealism: Subject/Object Chadwick Readings on Moodle.

April 14

Reading Response due. April 19 Film: Luis Buuel, The Phantom of Liberty (1974). Film Review: due April 26. Second Paper Due (Topic: Surrealism) April 21 April 26 Group 1: Break -- No Class. Group Presentations: Surrealism

Group 2:

Group 3: April 28 Group 4: Group Presentations: Surrealism

Group 5:

Group 6:

Final: Take Home Exam

(Date due: TBA)