Discussion Response (150 Words)

• Post at least one image of any Dada or Surrealist artwork. (2pts)
• Credit Artist, include Title and Date, Medium used. Institution where held if necessary. (1)
• Identify key symbols or ideas. “Read” or interpret the work. (3 points)
• What is the artist trying to express and how was it new or different from artistic traditions of the 19th c? How does it explore cultural or political themes? (2points)
• Comment on someone else’s choice of artwork or contribution and offer interpretation where possible. (2 points)

Outcome:

Students respond to the aesthetics, new media, new technologies of 20th c art movements as a means by which to explore concepts in aesthetics, technology & society and the role of New Media.

reading resources :

Hugo Ball’s Dada manifesto, 1914. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hugo-ball-dada-manifesto.pdf

Tristan Tzara’s Dada manifesto, 1916  http://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Tzara_Dada-Manifesto_1918.pdf

Breton, Andre, First Surrealism, 1924 Focus on the following sections of Breton’s text – pp. 4-6  – What does Breton think of novels? What does he say about ‘classification’ and other logic? pp. 7-8 on Freud and dreams, Imagination p. 8; the ‘marvellous’ pp. 10 -13; pp.15 -17 on the image and Chirico’s paintings; starting on p. 18 – about ‘surrealism’ the word through p. 20. And, then read the finale, pp. 32 – 36.

http://uploads.worldlibrary.org/uploads/pdf/20121102214233manifestopdf_pdf.pdf