Difference between revisions of "JCM312/The Avant-Garde (Discussion)"
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#'''Group 2:''' René Magritte's ''The Treason of Images'' (1928-9) contains the phrase, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"). What does Hughes feel is the significance of this phrase? | #'''Group 2:''' René Magritte's ''The Treason of Images'' (1928-9) contains the phrase, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"). What does Hughes feel is the significance of this phrase? | ||
#'''Group 3:''' How does Hughes characterize the surrealist use of sexuality? | #'''Group 3:''' How does Hughes characterize the surrealist use of sexuality? | ||
− | #''' | + | #'''All Groups:''' What previously dismissed forms of art (what Hughes calls, "kinds of expression") did surrealists advocate for? Why? |
#What elements of surrealism do you see in the films we viewed in class? | #What elements of surrealism do you see in the films we viewed in class? | ||
#*'''Group 1:''' ''Entr'Acte'' (Clair, 1924) | #*'''Group 1:''' ''Entr'Acte'' (Clair, 1924) | ||
− | #*'''Group 2 | + | #*'''Group 2:''' ''Un Chien Andalou'' (Buñuel/Dalí, 1928) |
− | + | #*'''Group 3:''' ''Zero for Conduct'' (Vigo, 1933) | |
− | #*'''Group | ||
#How do Bordwell and Thompson characterize the main principles of surrealist film? | #How do Bordwell and Thompson characterize the main principles of surrealist film? | ||
#Hughes maintains that "The [surrealist] object was collage in three dimensions" (p. 241). What do you think he means by this? (Meret Oppenheim's ''Luncheon in Fur'' is one example.) | #Hughes maintains that "The [surrealist] object was collage in three dimensions" (p. 241). What do you think he means by this? (Meret Oppenheim's ''Luncheon in Fur'' is one example.) |
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- Group 1: Why were surrealists obsessed with dreams and the insane? What does Robert Hughes mean when he characterizes "neurosis" as "the permanent involuntary form of dreams"?
- Group 2: René Magritte's The Treason of Images (1928-9) contains the phrase, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"). What does Hughes feel is the significance of this phrase?
- Group 3: How does Hughes characterize the surrealist use of sexuality?
- All Groups: What previously dismissed forms of art (what Hughes calls, "kinds of expression") did surrealists advocate for? Why?
- What elements of surrealism do you see in the films we viewed in class?
- Group 1: Entr'Acte (Clair, 1924)
- Group 2: Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel/Dalí, 1928)
- Group 3: Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1933)
- How do Bordwell and Thompson characterize the main principles of surrealist film?
- Hughes maintains that "The [surrealist] object was collage in three dimensions" (p. 241). What do you think he means by this? (Meret Oppenheim's Luncheon in Fur is one example.)
Bibliography
- Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.