FSN 232 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Metaphysical Art, Giorgio De Chirico, Marcel Duchamp
22 Apr 2016
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Dada, surrealism, fantasy, and the us between wars. Pessimism following wwi was embodied in the art and literature that followed in switzerland, particularly dada. Wasn"t so much a style as a sense of shared formal qualities. Writers, artists, and performers gathered at cabaret voltaire in zurich. Many different accounts of the origin of the term dada. Happened upon randomly in a dictionary, dada as the first thing a baby says to indicate the artist"s desire to start life over . L. h. o. o. q. (1919) by marcel duchamp - phonetically demands the viewer to look, and if you read out the letters in french it says she has a hot ass fucking genius. He called it ready-made-aided, but when he added a title to an object it was ready-made . Submitted a sculpture of a urinal, entitled fountain in 1917, signed r. mutt. It was rejected by the society and he resigned his membership.
