ARTH 3419 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Les Chants De Maldoror, Giorgio De Chirico, Paolo Uccello
12 Jan 2017
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Encounter- confronting that which we did not expect, that which leaves us off-balance. The chance encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a dissecting table from the. Hughes mentions this phrase as being uttered by isidore ducasse in les chants de maldoror. Passage deals with describing a young boy (around 16). Ducasse says that, he is as beautiful as the chance encounter . Psychic automatism thought"s dictation, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concerns -breton"s first surrealist manifesto (1924) Giorgio de chirico was an early figure in art that was exempt from aesthetics and reason. Andre breton served as an orderly to soldiers who had suffered in wwi. Breton worked in one of the psychiatric wards for these soldiers. He depicts breton as one of breton"s patients. Absence of morals and aesthetics are seen here.
