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Transitions in the Avant-garde
Written on the cusp between two movements, El Incongruente by Ramon Gómez de la Serna eloquently illustrates the transition between Dada and Surrealism. Utilising key Dadaist principles – such as the renunciation of logic, chance combinations of chapters
Emma Wadsworth-Jones
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Making Art or Studying Art? Routes to Ecological Thinking in the Secondary School Classroom
Abstract Art education scholarship has increasingly turned towards relational, ecological ways of thinking about the subject. This article asks whether that turn is reflected in how Art education is experienced and justified in the classroom. Drawing on interviews with students and an Art teacher in a rural state secondary school in England, it finds ...
Clemency Wood
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Surrealism and Photography [PDF]
: In keeping with the first two issues of the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, this third issue aims to broaden the horizon of critical concerns to which the publication is dedicated, turning our attention here to photographic contributions to the
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Negotiating Surrealism: Carlos Mérida, Mexican Art and the Avant-garde [PDF]
: This essay explores Guatemalan-born painter Carlos Merida's involvement in the surrealist movement. It examines both Merida's contribution to the surrealist understanding of Mexico in the 1940s as well as his adoption and promotion of surrealist ideas ...
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Presence Through Absence: Gender, Surrealism And The Unreal Woman [PDF]
This practice-led research investigates the visual language of self-representation in art associated with Surrealism. Through engagement with techniques prevalent in Surrealist art, particularly photographic Surrealism, this research visually and ...
Howe, J.
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On “sensibility”: art, art criticism and Surrealism in New York in the 1960s [PDF]
This article details and analyses the uses of the term ‘sensibility’ in New York art circles in the 1960s with the aim of showing the inevitable inconsistency that surrounded that term given the rebirth of Surrealism in that decade.
Gavin Parkinson
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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Windy Metropolis—Part 1: Animation as method
Abstract Based on fieldwork in Stuttgart from 2022 to 2025, the animation Wind Witnesses is a fictionalization of the sweeping wave of microclimate protests in the 2000s, demanding the protection of fresh air corridors (Frischluftschneisen) as nonhuman entities threatened by the conversion of ostensibly empty spaces into buildings. This companion essay
Indrawan Prabaharyaka
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The Origin and Development of Surrealism (1935 - 1945) [PDF]
This study aims to reconstruct the origins and evolution of Slovak poetic surrealism during the years 1935–1945, which were, artistically, its most dynamic and expansive phase.
Stanislav Šmatlák
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