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Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

David Hopkins
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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 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 more recently 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: David Hopkins EAN: 9780192802545 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 159 g HEIGHT: 174 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-04-08 CITY: GENRE: ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / General WIDTH: 113 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of art, Cultural studies, General and world history

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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).
      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 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 more recently 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: David Hopkins EAN: 9780192802545 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 159 g HEIGHT: 174 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-04-08 CITY: GENRE: ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / General WIDTH: 113 cm SPINE:

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      20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of art, Cultural studies, General and world history

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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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