VM100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Un Chien Andalou, Federal Theatre Project, Salvador Dalí
31 Oct 2018
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Two types of lm- social criticism, explorations in subjectivity. Dada means nothing - short lived, primarily in france, group of artists embracing anything that is non-naturalistic. Art often ambiguous, shocking and making social conventions. One of many modernist movements in the arts in early 1900s. Lack of contracts in dadaism while surrealism has speci c doctrines. Andre breton- artistic interpretation of freud (subconscious, id, ego) Id, ego, superego, con ict between them brought on by ideas, moral concepts, stimuli. (surrealism is about) stimulating subconscious mind its limitless store of fantastic and dreamlike images . Key > ways of representing the subjective vs. naturalism. Non-naturalistic imagery (often in naturalistic conception of space) Un chien andalou or an andalusian dog (1929) Most well known surrealist lm of the time. Break with conventions of naturalistic mise-en-scene (like paintings) 1936- federal theater project and an all-black macbeth that welles stages.
