20th century-isms: Surrealism Flashcards
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Surrealism:
ORIGIN & DECADE
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Paris
Early 1920’s
Flourished in Europe between WW1 & WW2
Declared dead in 1941
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Surrealism:
HISTORICAL /POLITICAL EVENTS
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Attacked the army, ‘justice’, police, religion, psychiatric & legal medicine, & schooling
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Surrealism:
THEATRICAL TRENDS /PRACTICES
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- Non-conformism
- Experimental theatre with psychological, moral & ideological problems
- Disappearance of theatre of customs
- Attempt of using sceno-graphic resources to return its condition of spectacle to theatre
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Surrealism:
RESPONSE TO 20TH CENTURY CONTEXT
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- Evolved from Dada
- Movement represented reaction against what members saw as destruction wrought by “rationalism” which had guided European culture & politics in the past that had culminated horrors of WW1
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Surrealism:
WORLDVIEW
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-Super-realism; art to express real process of thought
-Reflect subconscious & unconscious processes
(influence of Freud)
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Surrealism:
KEY FEATURES
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- Unexpected juxtapositions & non-sequiturs
- Influenced by Freud’s psychoanalysis
- Makes the unconscious surge
- Detests all the conscious
- Main topic=dreams
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Surrealism:
Purpose
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According to leader Andre Breton,Surrealism was a revolutionary movement.
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Surrealism:
PRACTIONERS
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Andre Breton
“surrealist” first used by Guillaume Apollinaire to describe play, “The Breasts of Tiresias”
Antonin Artaud [Theatre of Cruelty]
