ARHI 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Max Ernst, Giorgio De Chirico, Sigmund Freud

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARHI 2300
• Professor: Hatidza

Document Summary

Protested rational thought that had led to war. Name dada was chosen at random from the dictionary. Anti-art and refused to be called a movement. Spread to the u. s. , berlin, cologne, paris, russia, eastern europe, and japan. Key figure in new york branch of dada. Responsible for three major twentieth-century art innovations: readymades, kinetic sculpture, conceptual art. 1913 (spirit of dada predates the war) Resembles a traditional sculpture with a base and main subject. Made because duchamp enjoyed looking at it . Bold anti-nazi statements in posters and magazines. Foreshadows many of the disasters of world war ii. Based on ideas of austrian psychoanalyst sigmund freud. Surrealists aimed to challenge the idea of objective reality. The melancholy and mystery of the street. Held in highest esteem the process of making art. Collage, rubbing, scraping: wanted to reduce conscious control over the work and liberate the human imagination. Shows the imagination wandering in the mysterious realm of creativity.