2006, ISBN: 0195681746

[EAN: 9780195681741], [PU: Oxford University 2006, pbk], 83381, The avant garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice especially in conte… More...

[EAN: 9780195681741], [PU: Oxford University 2006, pbk], 83381, The 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 Sades 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 recently 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 fetishizederoticized body<

2006, ISBN: 9780195681741

Oxford University Press ,2006 ,New Delhi . Paperback . . Dada and Surrealims are widely considered to be two of the most intriguing and influential art movements of the twentieth cent… More...

Oxford University Press ,2006 ,New Delhi . Paperback . . Dada and Surrealims are widely considered to be two of the most intriguing and influential art movements of the twentieth century. The art and poetry connected with these avant-garde movements-produced by mojor figures such as Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp. Max Ernst, John Heartfield, Joan Miro and Salvador Dali-ranges from being hauntingly irrational to anarchically humorous and provocative. Dada is seen as iconoclastic and confrontational; Surrealism as similarly anti-bourgeois in spirit but more deeply immersed in the bizarre; both are known for their focus on sexuality, identity, fetishism, and shock tactics., Oxford University Press ,2006 ,New Delhi<

2006, ISBN: 9780195681741

Oxford University Press ,2006 ,New Delhi . Paperback . . Dada and Surrealims are widely considered to be two of the most intriguing and influential art movements of the twentieth cent… More...

Oxford University Press ,2006 ,New Delhi . Paperback . . Dada and Surrealims are widely considered to be two of the most intriguing and influential art movements of the twentieth century. The art and poetry connected with these avant-garde movements-produced by mojor figures such as Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp. Max Ernst, John Heartfield, Joan Miro and Salvador Dali-ranges from being hauntingly irrational to anarchically humorous and provocative. Dada is seen as iconoclastic and confrontational; Surrealism as similarly anti-bourgeois in spirit but more deeply immersed in the bizarre; both are known for their focus on sexuality, identity, fetishism, and shock tactics., Oxford University Press ,2006 ,New Delhi<

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