GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Biogen, Surrealism, Robert Rauschenberg
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Defined by thinkers who questioned past: marx (history), freud (the self), and nietzsche (values) Modern art as decreative: marcel duchamp: nude descending a staircase: analytic cubism. Global reach of arts: people started to rediscover themselves in the art of others, picasso- to africa, paul gaugin turns to tahiti, henri matisse turns to morocco. New art comes to the west: chinese opera. Indonesian gemelan music readymades- uses manufactured objects to make art, Dadaism and the avant-garde (leading edge: dadaism- ironic movement protest in wwi, did it to anger the bourgeois (middle class) and their taste, scandal= principle of cohesion. Surrealism and the avant-garde: based on unconscious, salvador dali- his work was able to be seen in different perspectives, picasso- takes rep form, and begins to abstract it. Art and everyday life: publicity, industrial design, commercial print, genuine objects radical movement against social and political conventions.
