WASH Lecture Summary (10/29)

Dada, Surrealism and After

Dada

• Began in WWI
• Protest against war, society, our social order

Contributeions

• Appropriations
• Assemblage, construction
• Conceptual Art
• Chance

Dada Artists

• Jean Arp
• Hugo Ball
• Kurt Schwitters
• Marcel Duchamp

"Cabaret Voltaire 1916"
Zurich, Switzerland
Berlin, 1919

Surrealism blossomed in Paris in 1924


Surrealism

• Less political
• New psychological theories of Sigmund Freud (The interpretation of Dreams)
• Access to the subconscious mind
• Automatism

Surrealist Artists

• Max Ernst
• Rene Magritte
• Salvadore Dali
• Georgio de Chirico
• Man Ray
• Jean Arp