AHIS BC 3626y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abstract Expressionism

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25 Aug 2016

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Abstract Expressionism: Surrealism

Man Ray Observatory Time, 1933

• Monumentalizes the body

• The part represents the whole

• Surrealism also distorts reality, is it a neck, is it a phallic

symbol?

• The iconic doesn’t match the

symbolic

• There is a contradiction in the

representation

• There is a play in distinction

and contradiction

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