MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Surrealist Manifesto, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism
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Ppt: solarized photograph of andre breton, by man ray, 1931. He wrote a manifesto of surrealism in paris, 1924 (not shown) slide: surrealist manifesto, 1924, and another statement, 1925. He had been a member of dada, but then rebelled against them, on the grounds that it was becoming institutionalized. There was a lot of movement of members and much influence between dada and surrealism. They rebelled against the mentality of the times, the bourgeios, middle-class early comsumer society. They had an interest in primitivism, that culture had repressed all the primal life out of people. They are linked to romantic period because of this interest. And like the previous movements, futurists and dada, they wanted to break away from all traditional ways of thinking, living, perceiving, and representing. They were utopian in that they wanted to transform the mental states of people, and therefore free society.
