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Dada & Surrealism. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Both responses to The Great War and the end of Enlightenment. Dada & Surrealism. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Modernism Late 19 th to mid 20 th Century
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Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Both responses to The Great War and the end of Enlightenment Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Modernism • Late 19th to mid 20th Century • Produced radically experimental (avant-garde) art: atonal music, Cubism, stream of consciousness fiction) • Anti-bourgeois and disdainful of popularity (Jarrell: “If you won’t read me, I will make sure you can’t”) • Succeeded by Postmodernism • Both quintessential products of Modernism Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism • Dada • The name is intended to evoke baby talk. • A punk-like nose-thumbing at everything sacred. • An exemplary Dada event: a poetry reading in which a half dozen poets read their work simultaneously on stage. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism Dada Duchamp Fountain—Marcel Duchamp Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Surrealism • The name is intended to mean above/beyond realism Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada and Surrealism • Surrealism • Greatly influenced by Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism Surrealism “As beautiful as the chance encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a dissecting table.”—Comte de Lautréamont (born in Montevideo Uruguay, 1846)—from Les Chants de Maldoror ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada and Surrealism • Surrealism • Andre Breton (right): Surrealism’s “pope” Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Surrealism • An exemplary Surrealist activity: the exquisite corpse • Wikipedia article on the exquisite corpse Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Spanish Painter The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad. Salvador Dali Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
I believe that the moment is near when, by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality. --Salvador Dali Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Asked why he had a pet lobster (which the motorcycle-goggle-wearing Dali sometimes walked—with a leash—on the streets of Paris, he replied: “It doesn’t bark, and it knows the secrets of the deep.” Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism 1929 Un Chien Andalou ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism Venus de Milo of the Drawers ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque Cannibalism in Autumn
Dada & Surrealism Metamorphosis of Narcissus ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque Persistence of Memory Asked why he was so fond of limp watches in his work, Dali replied: “Because they keep such good time.”
Dada & Surrealism Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, Premonition of Civil War ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism The Weaning of Furniture Nutrition ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Rene Magritte (1898-1967). Belgian Painter To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been. Rene Magritte Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque Perspicacity
The Therapeutist Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Black Magic Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Son of Man Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Not to be Reproduced Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque Personal Values
Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The Treachery of Images
Presence of Mind Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
The Red Model Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism The Lovers ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dangerous Liaisons Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
The Rape Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Time Transfixed Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism The Giantess ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Philosophy in the Bedroom Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Homage to Mack Sennett ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque Dada & Surrealism
Natural Encounters Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Dada & Surrealism The Menaced Assassin ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Attempting the Impossible Dada & Surrealism ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque