HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duhamel, Surrealist Manifesto
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Exquisite corpse: an exercise in collective, unconscious creativity; one person draws the head, another connects to the head a body, and the last submits legs; creation of a surrealist artifact. Began with the dada movement: operated within europe in the 1910s-20s in the aftermath of wwi, saw war as madness art should embrace such madness. Surrealism began in paris in the 20s. Leaders: andre breton wrote the surrealist manifesto in 1924 and declared that surrealism was the harmonious joining of dream and reality, max ernst, salvador dali. Surrealism, n. psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner the actual functioning of thought. Andre masson, automatic drawing, 1924, france: completely unfettered artistic expression that rages like mania, drawing uncontrolled by the rational mind, a canvas is the site at which ideas and deeper levels of consciousness (see.
