MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Marcel Duchamp, Surrealism, L.H.O.O.Q.
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The french avant-garde writers, critics and artists had been in contact with the zurich dadaists. In 1920, many of the zurich dada originators moved to in. Paris and became paris dada, its last major incarnation. They produced manifestos, organized demonstrations, staged performances and produced a number of journals (the final two editions of dada, le cannibale, and litt rature featured dada in several editions. ) The first introduction of dada artwork to the parisian public was at the salon des independants in 1921. The split within the movement that was to produce. In paris, dadaists turned away from the berlin group"s political activism and took up a wider criticism. Duchamp and others were against high art" as bourgeois and elitist. So they made low art" in opposition. This piece makes fun of the sacred icon of high art . Leonardo and his famous painting, the mona lisa.
