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[[Image:TreasonOfImagesShadow.jpg|thumb|200px|right|René Magritte's ''The Treason of Images'' (1928-9).]]
 
[[Image:TreasonOfImagesShadow.jpg|thumb|200px|right|René Magritte's ''The Treason of Images'' (1928-9).]]
#'''Group 3:''' 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"?
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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 4:''' 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?
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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 1:''' How does Hughes characterize the surrealist use of sexuality?
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#'''Group 3:''' How does Hughes characterize the surrealist use of sexuality?
#'''Group 2:''' What previously dismissed forms of art (what Hughes calls, "kinds of expression") did surrealists advocate for? Why?
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#'''Group 4:''' 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 these films?
 
#What elements of surrealism do you see in these films?
#*'''Group 3:''' ''Entr'Acte'' (Clair, 1924)
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#*'''Group 1:''' ''Entr'Acte'' (Clair, 1924)
#*'''Group 4:''' ''Un Chien Andalou'' (Buñuel/Dalí, 1928)
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#*'''Group 2:''' ''Un Chien Andalou'' (Buñuel/Dalí, 1928)
#*'''Groups 1 and 2:''' ''Zero for Conduct'' (Vigo, 1933)
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#*'''Groups 3 and 4:''' ''Zero for Conduct'' (Vigo, 1933)
 
#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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René Magritte's The Treason of Images (1928-9).
  1. 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"?
  2. 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?
  3. Group 3: How does Hughes characterize the surrealist use of sexuality?
  4. Group 4: What previously dismissed forms of art (what Hughes calls, "kinds of expression") did surrealists advocate for? Why?
  5. What elements of surrealism do you see in these films?
    • Group 1: Entr'Acte (Clair, 1924)
    • Group 2: Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel/Dalí, 1928)
    • Groups 3 and 4: Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1933)
  6. 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.

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