Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short IntroductionThe avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea of the 'readymade', attitudes towards the city, the impact of Freud, attitudes to women, fetishism, and primitivism. The international nature of these movements is examined, covering the cities of Zurich, New York, Berlin, Cologne, Barcelona, Paris, London, and recenlty discovered examples in Eastern Europe. Hopkins explores the huge range of media employed by both Dada and Surrealism (collage, painting, found objects, performance art, photography, film) , whilst at the same time establishing the aesthetic differences between the movements. He also examines the Dadaist obsession with the body-as-mechanism in relation to the Surrealists' return to the fetishized/eroticized body. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. |
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... Gallery of Modern Art 4 Max Ernst, Pietà/ Revolution by Night 19 © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London 2003. Photo © Tate ... Gallery of Modern Art 9 Cover: La Révolution Surréaliste, 1 (1924) 49 'The Papin Sisters: Before and After' 51 ...
... Gallery of Modern Art 4 Max Ernst, Pietà/ Revolution by Night 19 © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London 2003. Photo © Tate ... Gallery of Modern Art 9 Cover: La Révolution Surréaliste, 1 (1924) 49 'The Papin Sisters: Before and After' 51 ...
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... Gallery of Modern Art 16 54 Jedermann sein eigner Fussball (Everyman his own Football) © DACS 2003 55 17 George Grosz, Daum Marries her Pedantic Automaton 'George' in May 1920. John Heartfield is Very Glad 18 of it 58 © DACS 2003 ...
... Gallery of Modern Art 16 54 Jedermann sein eigner Fussball (Everyman his own Football) © DACS 2003 55 17 George Grosz, Daum Marries her Pedantic Automaton 'George' in May 1920. John Heartfield is Very Glad 18 of it 58 © DACS 2003 ...
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... gallery in New York, and members of the 'Arensberg circle', named after the wealthy art collectors Walter and Louise Arensberg, who acted as Duchamp's patrons. Its key figures, however, were the American photographer Man Ray, who was to ...
... gallery in New York, and members of the 'Arensberg circle', named after the wealthy art collectors Walter and Louise Arensberg, who acted as Duchamp's patrons. Its key figures, however, were the American photographer Man Ray, who was to ...
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Contents
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promoting Dada and Surrealism | 30 |
3 Art and antiart | 62 |
mindspiritbody | 97 |
5 Politics | 123 |
6 Looking back on Dada and Surrealism | 146 |
References | 157 |
Further reading | 161 |
the main centres key individuals and events | 167 |
Key Surrealist events | 170 |
Key figures associated with surrealism | 171 |
Index | 173 |
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