UNIT 4: SURREALISM & DADA
 
READING:

--from The History of Surrealism Maurice Nadeau
--<a href= --"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 " title="" />http://writing.upenn.edu/%7Etaransky/surrealism.pdfshapeimage_1_link_0
Oct 19
Transform the world, said Marx, change life, said Rimbaud: for us these two watchwords are one  –André Breton