Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0194 - Dada & Surrealism: Art & Anti-

In this art history course, we will explore Dada as a twentieth-century international movement in the visual arts, performance, and film. We will place the emergence of Dada in its modernist European contexts and discuss major artists of the 1910s-1930s, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and others. From Dada's anarchic politics and word/image games to Surrealism's use of Freudian psychoanalysis and experiments with automatism, chance, performance art, and dream language, we will study the key political and cultural contexts of selected images and texts. The course concludes with the influence of Dada aesthetics and politics on postwar visual culture, evaluating their potential as powerful modes of critique and response to a world gone awry.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Writing and Research In this course, students can expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.