Undergraduate Course: Challenging Art: Dada and Surrealism (HIAR10104)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Arts, Culture and Environment |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
History of Art |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course explores some of the variety of ways in which a challenge to traditional forms and values of art was mounted by artists associated with the key avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism between circa 1910 and 1945. Moving from Zurich, to Berlin, to New York and Paris we will chart the ways in which artists including Hans Arp, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, André Breton, Georges Bataille, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Hans Bellmer shared and developed key forms and techniques, including collage, photomontage, the readymade, found objects and word games, aimed at shattering traditional painting and sculpture, as well as at destroying conventional aesthetic responses. We will also trace the ways in which the explosive energy, radical politics and artistic innovation of these years took shape in furious polemics, manifestos and counter-manifestos, as well as in the founding of rival periodicals and journals and in unprecedented experimentation with exhibition design. Ironically, the experiments of these artists established paradigms of aesthetic innovation which reverberated throughout the art of the rest of the twentieth century, and which are still developed and explored by artists today. This course, however, aims to return to the original source of ideas and forms which even today remain uncompromisingly radical. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Seminar | | 1-11 | 09:00 - 10:50 | | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 09:00 - 10:50, Zone: Central. Geddes Room Minto House |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
&· Students will acquire knowledge of important artists and artworks and key artistic issues and debates from the early decades of the twentieth century.
&· Students will come to appreciate the revolutionary ideals which drove key innovations in artistic making in the early decades of the twentieth century, and will be equipped to perceive and analyse the ways in which Dada and Surrealist forms and ideas continue to underpin later twentieth-century and contemporary art.
&· Students will develop the ability to perceive and argue for connections across a range of artistic practices.
&· Students will gain confidence in handling a range of theoretically sophisticated methodologies.
Students will develop their existing abilities to:
&· Look closely at works of art;
&· Read difficult texts skilfully and with understanding;
&· Analyze ideas and arguments successfully;
&· Present their own ideas clearly and well in writing and in debate;
&· Prepare and organize their work effectively to deadlines.
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Assessment Information
One Essay 50%
One Degree Examination 50% |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Tamara Trodd
Tel: (0131 6)50 4116
Email: Tamara.Trodd@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Sue Cavanagh
Tel: (0131 6)51 1460
Email: Sue.Cavanagh@ed.ac.uk |
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