UNIT 4: SURREALISM & DADA
Oct 19
Transform the world, said Marx, change life, said Rimbaud: for us these two watchwords are one
–André Breton
![READING:
--from The History of Surrealism Maurice Nadeau
--First Manifesto of Surrealism
--"Yellow Manifesto" by Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, etc.
-- "Dada is American" by Walter Conrad Arensberg (JR)
--How to make a Dadaist Poem by Tristan Tzara
--Dada Excites Everything Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, etc.
--Free Union André Breton (JR)
--Kurt Schwitters to the Swiss Dadaist Arp. Blackberries (2) Kurt Schwitters
--The and Rendez-vouz du Dimache 6 Fevrier 1916 by Marcel Duchamp (JR)
-- "Poem, 1924" by Andre Breton
-- from A Book of Surrealist Games compiled by Alastair Brotchie
IN-CLASS:
Surrealist games and writing activities [Bring: scissors, images, words]
*Automatism
*Chain Games/Collaborative writing:
WRITING:
--Use Oct 12 in-class writing activities towards a "finished" piece
--Optional: write a manifesto. A manifesto is a public statement that sets forth the tenets of a forthcoming, existing, or potential movement or "ism" – or that plays on the idea of one.
TERMS/ISSUES:
Automatic writing, chance, DADA, surrealism, cut-ups, collage poetry, subconscious](16621B2D-AD3A-41A5-959F-62D6B3FBA592_files/shapeimage_1.png)
