- Hardcover: 230 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press (3 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198175132
- ISBN-13: 978-0198175131
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.8 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,002,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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David Hopkins analyses the extensive network of shared concerns and images in the work of Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst, the greatest names associated with Dada and Surrealist art. This book covers a broad period from c.1912 to the mid-1940s, during which the emergence of Dada and Surrealism in Europe and the United States challenged earlier movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, creating scope for the expression of the unconscious fears and desires of artists acutely sensitive to the troubled nature of their times. Examining Duchamp's and Ernst's subversion and manipulation of religious and hermetic beliefs such as Catholicism, Rosicrucianism and Masonry, David Hopkins demonstrates the ways in which these esoteric concerns intersect with themes of peculiarly contemporary relevance, including the social construction of gender and notions of ordering and taxonomy. This detailed comparison of components of Duchamp's and Ernst's work reveals fascinating structural patterns, enabling the reader to discover an entirely new way of understanding the mechanisms underlying Dada and Surrealist iconography.
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An unaccountable organism confronts us; part machine, part scientific apparatus, part human, animal or insect ... It is painted in a delicate range of flesh tones, ochres, and browns and stands or hovers in a shallow, claustrophobic space. Read the first page
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An unaccountable organism confronts us; part machine, part scientific apparatus, part human, animal or insect ... It is painted in a delicate range of flesh tones, ochres, and browns and stands or hovers in a shallow, claustrophobic space. Read the first page
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Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst
3 July 2000
Format:Hardcover
If you are looking for individual research involving either artist, look else where. Nonetheless, this book gives a good gleamce into two revolutionary artists lives as they relate to one another. The "true" father of modern art, Marcel Duchamp, and his mad-photographer, Max Ernst as their lives mingle between negative, photo, and glass.
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