Surrealism (Temporis Collection) - Hardcover

Nathalia Brodskaia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859950183 ISBN 13: 9781859950180

Publisher: Parkstone Press, 2009

Synopsis

Surrealists appeared in the aftermath of World War I with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins. This refusal to integrate into the bourgeois society was also a leitmotiv of Dada artists, and André Breton asserted that Dada does not produce perspective. Surrealism emerged amidst such feeling. Surrealists and Dada artists often changed from one movement to another. They were united by their superior intellectualism and the common goal to break free from the norm. Describing the Surrealists with their aversive resistance to the system, the author brings a new approach which strives to be relative and truthful. Provocation and cultural revolution: aren t Surrealists after all just a direct product of creative individualism in this unsettled period?

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Synopsis

The Dada movement and then the Surrealists appeared in the First World War aftermath with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins. This refusal to integrate into the Bourgeois society lead Georg Grosz to remark of Dada, "it's the end of -isms." Breton asserted that Dada does not produce perspective, "a machine which functions full steam, but where it remains to be seen how it can feed itself." Surrealism emerged amidst such feeling. These artists often changed from one movement to another. They were united by their superior intellectualism and the common goal to break from the norm. Describing Dada with its dynamic free-thinkers, and the Surrealists with their aversive resistance to the system, the author brings a new approach, which strives to be relative and truthful. Provocation and cultural revolution: Dada and the Surrealists, aren't they above all just a direct product of creative individualism in this unsettled period?

About the Author

Nathalia Brodskaļa is a curator at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. As an author, she has published monographs on Rousseau, Renoir, Derain, Vlaminck, Vallotton and Van Dongen and books on the Fauves and Naive Art. Nathalia Brodskaļa is currently working on a study of French painters at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Parkstone Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1859950183
• ISBN 13: 9781859950180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256