Surrealism

As Dada began to burn itself out in the 1920s, a splinter movement rose from within: Surrealism. What we know now as an art movement began as a mode of thought, a philosophy, a practice. In this episode Grant teaches us about their goals, their political program, and where they all went once the band broke up. Can you exercize control over a movement meant to break boundaries and hierarchies? Is the most famous surrealist the worst at Surrealism? Which art movement would win in a fight?

Links!

• The Gas Heart script
• Breton's (first) Surrealist Manifesto
• Images of the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
• Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art
• Un Chien Andalou
• Le Violon d'Ingres
• Artaud in Ireland
• Destino
• The Theater of Cruelty

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