West European Studies / Paris and Berlin in the 1920s W605 /
8429 / Pace Meets TR 2:30-3:45 Woodburn Hall 101 Meets with HIST
B366 and WEUR W405 Section 4101 Obtain on-line authorization for
above section from department For more information on this
course, please check the website at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~pb20s Between the end of the First World
War and Hitler's seizure of power there occurred in Paris and
Berlin a cultural explosion that altered our notions of art and
reality and that have shaped our way of viewing the world ever
since. Using films, images, and original sources, we will
explore this era, focusing on the artists and intellectuals who
produced this rich cultural heritage. In the first part of the
course we will consider the pre-1914 experiments of French
artists such as Henri Rousseau and Eric Satie, the assault of
Dadaist on Western concepts of reality, and the theater of
Antonin Artaud. Next, we will move to Berlin to study the impact
of the First World War on German Culture, the develop