Sunday, November 14, 2010

Lecture Summary (10/19) - Dada and Surrealism

DADA:
      - Began in World War I
      - Protest against war, society and social order

Contributions:
      - Appropriation
      - Assemblage, Construction
      - Conceptual Art
      - Chance

Some Dada Artists:
    Jean Arp
    Hugo Ball
    Kurt Schwitters
    Marcel Duchamp

Locations: Cabaret Voltaire(1916) - Zurich, Switzerland, Berlin(1919), Paris(1929) - morphed into Surrealism

Surrealism:

 Features:
     - Less political
     - New psychological theory of Sigmund Freud
     - 1899 "The Interpretation of Dreams"

Surrealist Artists:
     Max Ernst
     Rene Magritte
     Salvador Dali
     Glorgio De Chirico
     Man Ray

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