Year
1978
Distributor
Roland Collection of Films on Art
Country
US
Video Standard
NTSC
OCLC
53137127
Language
ENG
Examines the movements of Dada and Surrealism, and follows the development of their main exponents: Duchamp, Tzara, Arp, Ernst, Schwitters, Breton and Dali, concentrating on the contradictions and ambivalences between their innovatory techniques and philosophies and their desire to transform the world. Questions the complex relationship between the Surrealist enterprise and politics. Explores the influences of Surrealism on the art world and on the mass media. Also includes an interview with Duchamp in the 1960s, discussing the impact of the movement, its failures and successes
The history of Dada and Surrealism through the first six decades of the twentieth century is portrayed through film and still images, and interviews with or reinactments of the artists and writers involved
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