Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, I just looked it up, if anyone's interested , Breton (1924) started the ball rolling in France. Dadaism and Merz appear to have fought shy of wanting to be associated with surrealism, and Kurt Schwitters (the founder of Merz) hated being lumped in with the Dadaists. All in all these movements kicked the establishment right in the middle of its complacency and gave the most important impulses for what we now generalise under the definition "Modern Art". On the political side, the European anarchist movement seems to have tried to do much the same with politics. Planting bombs was one of their prime weapons against society, and probably the reason for their demise.Their aim, to create a chaos from which new ideas might emerge. I dread to think what would have happened if they had succeeded. BTW,there is a wonderfully funny book about conspirators,conspiracies and anarchism, GK Chestertons "The man who was Tuesday" Douglas John Collier schrieb: > I think Surrealism is best defined by what it tries to do. It is a > reaction to Rationalism which Surrealists blamed for WW1, capitalism > (ie: ills of the world, etc). The goal of the Surrealists was to > create art that broke the bonds of nationalism, family, religion and > race. Though built on the foundations of the Dada movement, it was > positive in expression and an expression of hope that humans could > change if freed from the constraints of tradition and convention. > > Fatally flawed perhaps but beautiful nonetheless. > > John Collier > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Ihre bevorzugten Shops, hilfreiche Einkaufs-Hilfen und gro?artige Geschenk Ideen. Erleben Sie das Vergn?gen online einzukaufen mit Shop@Netscape! http://shopping.netscape.de/shopping/