GERMAN 456 - The Student Movement and the Neo-Avant-Garde in 1960s Germany

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

An interdisciplinary examination of the aesthetic and intellectual shifts that transformed West German cultural and political life in the years leading up to the student rebellion of 1968. The aesthetic production that the course focuses on reappropriated many of the strategies of the historical avant-garde (especially those of Dadaism), often in the hope of subverting the "spectacle" ofconsumer capitalism and transforming everyday life. Topics include experimental poetry ("Wiener Gruppe," Enzensberger); theater, and antitheater (Handke, Weiss); "New German Cinema"(Fassbinder, Kluge); visual art (Beuys, Fluxus, Pop, Capitalist Realism); and pronouncements and manifestos of the student movement (Dutschke, Baumann, Gruppe SPUR). All readings and classroom discussions are in German.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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