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SURREALISM IN SPAIN (IN SPANISH) Class code SPAN-UA. 9950.003 Instructor: Ángel Aragonés Instructor Details Email: [email protected] Monday / Wednesday 4.30 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. Office Hours - Monday / Wednesday 5:50 – 6:20 p.m. Class Details SURREALISM IN SPAIN (IN SPANISH) SPRING 2016 Prerequisites SPAN-UA100 or to be taken concurrently with SPAN-UA 9100. Este curso plantea el surrealismo como hecho histórico, y como sistema vigente, de utilidad para Class Description establecer relaciones creativas. Se desarrollará un temario basado en el estudio del fenómeno surrealista, desde sus precedentes históricos, sus creadores y sus descendientes. Realizando, ejercicios prácticos para que los alumnos tengan su propia experiencia surrealista. Es fundamental la participación al máximo en las clases aportando las ideas compartiendo opiniones sobre los temas de estudio. Creando un espíritu de “tertulia” con la participación de todos. Se realizarán algunas visitas a exposiciones, conferencias, obras de teatro o películas que se programen en Madrid, dentro del periodo del curso y que estén relacionadas con el surrealismo. Los objetivos básicos de esta asignatura son: Desired Outcomes Aprender la historia del surrealismo y poder identificar las ideas filosóficas, artísticas y literarias del movimiento a través de lecturas, visitas a los museos y el estudio intensivo de las obras en la clase. La asistencia al museo Reina Sofía u otros, de interés para el curso, las notas sobre Estética y teoría de las Artes (Friedrich Nietzsche), estudiando el apartado El respeto a la representabilidad de La interpretación de los sueños de Sigmund Freud, las teorías de Carl G. Jung (acercamiento al inconsciente, la importancia de los sueños y el papel de los símbolos), así como los ejercicios prácticos de los que serán protagonistas los alumnos, experimentando desde sí mismos asuntos y técnicas que el surrealismo dio como formas de la relación con la creatividad y el encuentro con lo “maravilloso”. Los apuntes de poetas y escritores surrealistas, las diversas entrevistas con artistas del surrealismo y sus descendientes a través de películas o videos a ver en casa, donde estos expresan sus experiencias, proporcionarán una visión personal que harán que el alumno comprenda mejor la proyección de planteamientos formales entre el arte contemporáneo. Requisitos y evaluación: Habrá, tres ensayos (de 5 páginas cada uno) de libre elección relacionados Assessment con los estudios realizados del curso. Components Porcentajes: Participación en clase: 10 %. Primer ensayo(obra escrita): 30 % Segundo ensayo (obra escrita): 30 % Tercer ensayo final (obra escrita): 30 % Failure to submit or fulfill any required course component will result in failure of the class, regardless of grades achieved in other assignments. 1 La falta de participación en clase o la que puede considerarse participación pasiva, será motivo de Grading Policy reducción de nota final. Statement on Provisions to students with disabilities Academic accommodations are available for students with documented disabilities. Please contact the Moses Center for Students with Disabilities at 212-998-4980 or see their website (http://www.nyu.edu/life/safety-health-andwellness/students-with-disabilities.html) for further information. Students with disabilities who believe that they may need accommodations in a class are encouraged to contact the Moses Center for Students with Disabilities at (212) 998-4980 as soon as possible to better ensure that such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion. For more information, see Study Away and Disability Attendance Policy Study abroad at Global Academic Centers is an academically intensive and immersive experience in which students from a wide range of backgrounds exchange ideas in discussion-based seminars. Learning in such an environment depends on the active participation of all students. And since classes typically meet once or twice a week, even a single absence can cause a student to miss a significant portion of a course. 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Plagiarism: presenting others' work without adequate acknowledgement of its source, as though it were one’s own. Plagiarism is a form of fraud. We all stand on the shoulders of others, and we must give credit to the creators of the works that we incorporate into products that we call our own. Some examples of plagiarism: · a sequence of words incorporated without quotation marks · an unacknowledged passage paraphrased from another's work · the use of ideas, sound recordings, computer data or images created by others as though it were one’s own · submitting evaluations of group members’ work for an assigned group project which misrepresent the work that was performed by another group member · altering or forging academic documents, including but not limited to admissions materials, academic records, grade reports, add/drop forms, course registration forms, etc. 2 ·using language translation software. For further information, students are encouraged to check www.nyu.edu/about/policies- guidelines-compliance/policies-and-guidelines/academic-integrity-for-students-at-nyu.html Required Text(s) in Los textos requeridos están anotados con sus ISBN correspondientes en cada una de las sesiones Print Form y estarán disponibles en formato impreso y digital. Required Texts - “Las flores del mal”, Baudelaire. Seis poemas prohibidos, pág. 219-232. Ed. Austral. ISBN. 978-84-08- available via NYU 10337-0. Classes, - “Iluminaciones” Arthur Rimbaud. Una temporada en el infierno, pág. 29-69. Ed. Alianza Editorial. ISBN. NYU Madrid 978-84-206-8359-1. Library and - “Los cantos de Maldoror”, Isidore Ducasse. Gude de Lautrémont. Canto 4º (pág. 229-232). Ediciones Cátedra. ISBN-84-376-0743-1. - “Bases Filosóficas inspiradoras del Surrealismo”. Lectura de breves textos y aforismos de Friedrich Reina Sofía Library. Nietzsche, (1844 – 1900). Estética y teoría de las artes. Editorial Tecnos. ISBN-84-309-3353-0. (Aforismos entre las pág. 81 a la 170). - “Las Intempestivas”. Babelia (periódico semanal). 8 de Octubre de 1994. - “La interpretación de los sueños” El respeto a la representabilidad de S. Freud (1856-1939). Ed. Akal. ISBN 978-84-460-3736-1. (pág. 349-360). Lectura de breves textos de Carl G. Jung, (1875 – 1961), La importancia de los sueños” y “El papel de los Símbolos”. Título original “Man and his symbols”. Carl G. Jung. “El hombre y sus símbolos”. La importancia de los sueños. Luis de Caralt Editor, S.A. 1976. ISBN-84-217-4665-0. (pág. 37-45 y 72-84). - “Almanaque Dadá”. Richard Huelsenbeck (ed.). Traducción de Anton Dieterich. Editorial Tecnos, S.A. ISBN 84-309-22245. (pag. 10-11). - “Primer Manifiesto Dadá, 1918”. Correo Dadá. Raoul Hausmann. Ediciones Acuarela. ISBN 978-84-7774- 207-4. (pág. 51-55). - “Primer Manifiesto del Surrealismo" (1924) Ed Labor, S.A. ISBN 84-335-0028-7. André Bretón (pág. 17-70): selecciones a ser anunciadas. - “Repertorio e ideas del Surrealismo” (1919-1970). Ángel Pariente. Pepitas de calabaza ediciones. ISBN 978-84-15862-20-8. Ideas Dadaísmo (pag. 73-75). Ideas Surrealimo (pág. 235-241). - Lectura de textos sobre Miró. Catálogo exposición “Joan Miró. Campo de Estrellas” Museo Nac. De Arte Reina Sofía. (20 ene – 22 marz. 1993). (pág. 49-51). - El Surrealismo. Walter Benjamin. Casimiro libros. ISBN 978-84-15715-24-5. (pág. 55-59). - “Greguerías”, Ediciones Cátedra, Letras Hispánicas, 2004. ISBN-84-376-0212-2. (Selección de 33 greguerías). - Ultraísmo. “Manifiesto Ultraísta”. Jaime Brihuega, Manifiestos, proclamas, panfletos y textos doctrinales (las vanguardias artísticas en España, 1910-1931), (pag 37-38 y 103-104). Ed. Ediciones Cátedra. ISBN 978- 84-376-0173-1. - Vicente Huidobro. “Altazor” - Temblor de cielo. Edición de René de Costa. Ediciones Cátedra. ISBN-84-376- 0279-3. (pág. 48-55). - “Las cosas se han roto” Antología de la poesía Ultraísta. Juan Manuel Bonet. Editorial Fundación Jose Manuel Lara. ISBN 978-84-96824-86-7. (pág. 13-18). - “Conversaciones con Miró” Georges Raillard. Ed. Gránica editor S.A. ISBN 84-7432036-4. (pag. 145-157). - “Miró el asesino de la pintura”, Fernando Castro Flóret. Ed. Abada editores. ISBN 978-84-96775-68-8. (pág. 1-16). - VVAA. El surrealismo en España.
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    CONSUMING SURREALISM IN MODERN MEXICAN ADVERTISING: REMEDIOS VARO’S PHARMACEUTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS FOR CASA BAYER, S.A. A Thesis Submitted to the Temple University Graduate Board In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS by Alicia M. Pucci August 2018 Thesis Approvals: Gerald Silk, Thesis Advisor, Department of Art History Mariola Alvarez, Second Reader, Department of Art History © Copyright 2018 by Alicia M. Pucci All Rights Reserved ii ABSTRACT My thesis investigates an interdisciplinary narrative of the transatlantic migration of Surrealism to Mexico during the 1940s. I focus on the ways exiled European Surrealists approached notions of Mexican material culture in a hybrid society where local traditions coexisted with a global modernity. Looking to popular and print culture outlets, I concentrate on how Mexican material culture was perceived, promoted, and marketed through a Surrealist lens. Specifically, I consider the collaboration of the German pharmaceutical company Casa Bayer, S.A. and exiled Spanish-born Surrealist Remedios Varo, who produced a series of medical advertisements during her first decade in Mexico City from 1943 to 1949. Through an examination of Varo’s work, my thesis explores the changing boundaries of fine and commercial art that resulted from the efforts of artists who participated in modern mass culture and consumerism. I investigate the significance of her Surrealist advertisements for Casa Bayer as a material culture bound on one side with fine art and the other side with the development of Mexican advertising. This case study supports my argument that Surrealism, as a transnational aesthetic, was one alternative way of demonstrating the new cultural meanings of advertising in an ambiguous, modern Mexican society.
  • Drawing Surrealism CHECKLIST

    Drawing Surrealism CHECKLIST

    ^ Drawing Surrealism CHECKLIST EILEEN AGAR Argentina, 1899–1991, active England Ladybird , 1936 Photograph with gouache and ink 3 3 29 /8 x 19 /8 in. (74.3 x 49.1 cm) Andrew and Julia Murray, Norfolk, U.K. Philemon and Baucis , 1939 Collage and frottage 1 1 20 /2 x 15 /4 in. (52.1 x 38.7 cm) The Mayor Gallery, London AI MITSU Japan, 1907–1946 Work , 1941 Sumi ink 3 1 10 /8 x 7 /8 in. (26.4 x 18 cm) The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Italy, 1880–1918, active France La Mandoline œillet et le bambou (Mandolin Carnation and Bamboo), c. 1915–17 Ink and collage on 3 pieces of paper 7 1 10 /8 x 8 /8 in. (27.5 x 20.9 cm) Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Purchase 1985 JEAN (BORN HANS) ARP Germany, 1886–1966, active France and Switzerland Untitled , c. 1918 Collage and mixed media 1 5 8 /4 x 11 /8 in. (21 x 29.5 cm) Mark Kelman, New York Untitled , 1930–33 Collage 1 5 6 /8 x 4 /8 in. (15.6 x 11.8 cm) Private collection Untitled , 1940 Collage and gouache 1 1 7 /4 x 9 /2 in. (18.4 x 24.1 cm) Private collection JOHN BANTING England, 1902–1972 Album of 12 Blueprints , 1931–32 Cyanotype 1 3 3 Varying in size from 7 3/4x 6 /4 in. (23.5 x 15.9 cm.) to 12 /4 x 10 /4 in. (32.4 x 27.3 cm) Private collection GEORGES BATAILLE France, 1897–1962 Untitled Drawings for Soleil Vitré , c.