Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Dada and Surrealism

The Dada movement, born as a reaction to World War I, and its successor, Surrealism, opened new avenues for artistic creation by striving to bypass the reasoning process and tap directly into the unconscious mind.

This program examines:

• Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbild 25 A (1920), from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

• Hanna Höch’s Cut with the Kitchen Knife (1919), from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

• George Grosz’ Untitled (1920), from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

• Joán Miró’s Dutch Interior I (1928), from the Museum of Modern Art, New York

• Salvador Dalí’s The Burning Giraffe (1936), from the Kunstmuseum, Basel

• Man Ray’s La Fortune (1938), from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

(60 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10358
Copyright date: ©1991
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-0167-9

Part of the Series : Masterworks of Western Art


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