Dada & the Avant-Garde (GER-0181)

Spring 2024 · GER 0181 · Tufts University · 4 credits · Undergraduate

Dada literary and art movement as subversion of society and culture. Use of irony, sarcasm, paradox, bombast, montage, etc. to undermine ideologies, e.g., capitalism, nationalism, religion, and militarism. Focus on individual signs, poetry, manifestos, photomontages and assemblages, and commodity forms and aesthetics, as objects of sabotaged meaning making. Avant-garde contexts from Dada’s predecessors, Cubism and Futurism, and successors, Surrealism, Situationalism, and Fluxus. Its continuing influence on popular culture. In English. If taken at the 100-level: Extra assignments and class meetings in German.

Course codes: GER-0181, GER 0181, GER0181, GER-181, GER 181, GER181

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