Ah, had one good class in college, Concepts in Surrealism. What I remember...the instructor, who also ran the Art Museum on Campus, was someone who looked more like a footballer, but truly an artists mind. How surrealism came from the experience of WW1, men in the trenches suddenly finding their mates beside them without their heads, of them learning to 'duck' at certain sounds. The absurdness of war, of images that made 'no sense' because it was a new kind of 'non-sense', of humans trying to make sense of high powered destruction. C'est une pipe? https://www.renemagritte.org/the-treachery-of-images.jsp
I came to Surrealism from DADA. I knew Dali of course but not not think of him as in the clique of Breton as much but more his own soul, like Picasso whom I knew a bit of then too. Then I discovered an art book by George Grosz, then later Kurt Schwitters on Merz. International DADA gripped me. I think it still does.
Thank you so much! I will immediately add to my growing ebook collection. I aim for 10,000 titles in the hard drive by 1/1/24 and in the Google storage as my fall back emergency recovery option. Free Love Above All direct from the endless bliss of the Surrealist Summer of Love.
Ah, had one good class in college, Concepts in Surrealism. What I remember...the instructor, who also ran the Art Museum on Campus, was someone who looked more like a footballer, but truly an artists mind. How surrealism came from the experience of WW1, men in the trenches suddenly finding their mates beside them without their heads, of them learning to 'duck' at certain sounds. The absurdness of war, of images that made 'no sense' because it was a new kind of 'non-sense', of humans trying to make sense of high powered destruction. C'est une pipe? https://www.renemagritte.org/the-treachery-of-images.jsp
I came to Surrealism from DADA. I knew Dali of course but not not think of him as in the clique of Breton as much but more his own soul, like Picasso whom I knew a bit of then too. Then I discovered an art book by George Grosz, then later Kurt Schwitters on Merz. International DADA gripped me. I think it still does.
Hey, look what I found.....cool...thanks Stegiel.... https://archive.org/details/loveaboveallothe00gros
Thank you so much! I will immediately add to my growing ebook collection. I aim for 10,000 titles in the hard drive by 1/1/24 and in the Google storage as my fall back emergency recovery option. Free Love Above All direct from the endless bliss of the Surrealist Summer of Love.
https://annas-archive.org/md5/43b27bc2b99149db34c9fecd8dab678f