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Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction
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Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short IntroductionDada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea of the 'readymade', attitudes towards the city, the impact of Freud, attitudes to women, fetishism, and primitivism.
 
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Tags: fetishism, Surrealism, attitudes, movements, quality, Introduction