Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction


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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 & Surrealism


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Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Prefatory Note -- Part One Data -- 1 Definitions, Statements and Manifestoes -- 2 The Spread of the Dada Virus -- 3 The Dada Essence -- Part Two Surrealism -- 4 Definitions, Statements and Manifestoes -- 5 Birth, Progress and Politics -- 6 Origins, Aesthetics and Ethics -- Select Bibliography -- Index




Dada and Surrealist Art


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A Companion to Dada and Surrealism


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This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender. This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the field Offers historical coverage as well as in–depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender One of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth century Dada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres




DADA BODIES


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A comprehensive study of Dada's images of the body in various media and geographical centres. Mask or machine-part, grotesque or iconoclastic, the bodily image is confronted as both a reflection of and on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of wartime and post-war Europe, and a blueprint of the New Man.




Dada and Surrealist Film


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This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements.




Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism


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"Includes essays by Alfred H. Barr, Georges Hugnet, a brief chronology of the Dada and Surrealist movements, bibliography relevant to the exhibition held at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1936-37"--AbeBooks.




Surrealism and Dadaism


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Surrealist Art


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One of the finest and most famous collections of Surrealist art ever assembled now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago is that of Chicago philanthropists Lindy and Edwin A. Bergman. Artists represented include Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, among many others. Noted critic and art historian Dawn Ades has written an absorbing account of the Bergman collection. All the 118 works are reproduced in full color. 180 illus. 120 in color.




Dada and Surrealist Performance


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The anarchic Dada movement is the subject of continuing interest among literary and cultural studies scholars as well as among theater professionals. This book describes the founding of the movement among the Zurich performance collective known as the Cabaret Voltaire, and traces its scandalous history. (Performing Arts)