Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction
Title Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook
Author David Hopkins
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 209
Release 2004-04-08
Genre Art
ISBN 0192802542

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A stimulating introduction to the many debates surrounding the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, such as the Marquis de Sade's position as a Surrealist deity, attitudes towards the city, the impact of Freud, and attitudes towards women.

Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction
Title Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook
Author David Hopkins
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 208
Release 2004-04-08
Genre Art
ISBN 0191577693

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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 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.

Dada & Surrealism

Dada & Surrealism
Title Dada & Surrealism PDF eBook
Author Christie's, London
Publisher
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Release 1989
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Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction

Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction
Title Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook
Author David Cottington
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 169
Release 2005-02-24
Genre Art
ISBN 0191577820

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As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' art by asking such questions as: What has made a work of art qualify as modern (or fail to)? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is 'postmodernist' art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist - in either case, why, and what does this claim mean, both for art and the idea of 'the modern'? Cottington examines many key aspects of this subject, including the issue of controversy in modern art, from Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey Emin's Bed, (1999); and the role of the dealer from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler to Charles Saatchi. 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.

Surrealism

Surrealism
Title Surrealism PDF eBook
Author Mary Ann Caws
Publisher Phaidon
Pages 312
Release 2004-12
Genre Art
ISBN

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A comprehensive survey of the 20th-century's longest lasting art movement.

After Modern Art

After Modern Art
Title After Modern Art PDF eBook
Author David Hopkins
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 349
Release 2018
Genre Art
ISBN 0199218455

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A beautifully illustrated, new edition of this pioneering study of art since 1945. Focussing mainly on the relationship between American and European Art, this book offers an up-to-date introduction to the major artists and movements of recent years.

Dada

Dada
Title Dada PDF eBook
Author Leah Dickerman
Publisher National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P.
Pages 542
Release 2005
Genre Art
ISBN

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Edited by Leah Dickerman. Essays by Brigid Doherty, Sabine T. Kriebel, Dorothea Dietrich, Michael R. Taylor, Janine Mileaf and Matthew S. Witkovsky. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III.