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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.
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Dr David Hopkins is lecturer in Art History at Glasgow University. He is the author of After Modern Art: 1045-2000 (OUP, 2000); previous publications include Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: the Bride Shared (OUP, 1988).
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Format:Paperback
"A very short introduction" is the correct description! The book is short and sweet, offering a brief overview of the key ideas, themes and writers/artists etc. of the movement. Don't expect anything too in depth but it's a very good starting point.
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The word it missed out was 'excellent' - this is 'a very short excellent introduction', a very well thought out and explained journey through the vagaries of numbers of artists, making sense of their differing efforts, aims, successes or failures.
In short, a wonderful example of the successful herding of cats. Thorough, well researched, really interesting, highly recommended.
In short, a wonderful example of the successful herding of cats. Thorough, well researched, really interesting, highly recommended.
Format:Paperback
Very in-depth but still the point. Not to boring which is a massive plus! Really good to cite for research and essays. In short exactly what it says on the cover, very handy little book for the arts based student!
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