A comprehensive study of Dada's images of the body in various media and geographical centres. Mask or machine-part, grotesque or iconoclastic, the bodily image is confronted as both a reflection of and on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of wartime and post-war Europe, and a…
Herschel B. Chipp's 'Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics' is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics - some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Gre…
Herschel B. Chipp's 'Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics' is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics - some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Gre…
Dada, surrealism, and the cinematic effect
Deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. This title examines the Dada and Surrealist movements …
Dada, surrealism, and the cinematic effect
by Elder, Bruce
fromFilm and media studies series
Dada, surrealism, and the cinematic effect
Deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. This title examines the Dada and Surrealist movements …
Dada, surrealism, and the cinematic effect
Dada, surrealism, and the cinematic effect
Companion to the author's Harmony and dissent, demonstrates that for the early-twentieth-century avant-garde movements cinema was the pre-eminent form that served as a model for recasting the other arts, proclaiming it the most important art as it exemplified the vibrancy of con…
Dada, surrealism, and the cinematic effect
Deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. This title examines the Dada and Surrealist movements …