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− | [[Image:TreasonOfImagesShadow.jpg|thumb|200px|right|René Magritte's ''The Treason of Images'' (1928-9).]]#'''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"? | + | [[Image:TreasonOfImagesShadow.jpg|thumb|200px|right|René Magritte's ''The Treason of Images'' (1928-9).]] |
+ | #'''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 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? | ||
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#*''Zero for Conduct'' (Vigo, 1933) | #*''Zero for Conduct'' (Vigo, 1933) | ||
#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.) |
==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
− | + | *[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/SurrealismLecture.htm Dada & Surrealism Illustrations] | |
[[Category:TCF340 Discussion]] | [[Category:TCF340 Discussion]] |
Revision as of 14:46, 16 September 2008
- 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?
- Group 4: What previously dismissed forms of art (what Hughes calls, "kinds of expression") did surrealists advocate for? Why?
- All groups: What elements of surrealism do you see in the films we viewed in class:
- Entr'Acte (Clair, 1924)
- Charleston (Renoir, 1927)
- Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel/Dalí, 1928)
- 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.