A look at the varied dimensions of the surrealist movement, placing surrealism back into its central position in the modernist movement. While most of the artists of the 1924 surrealist group are dead, the movement itself and its impact on all of the arts has continued and still thrives throughout the world today. These ideas, these arts, have powerfully influenced later creators, inspiring the Theater of the Absurd, the later films of Bunuel and Jodorowski, the operas of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, performance art, the ...
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A look at the varied dimensions of the surrealist movement, placing surrealism back into its central position in the modernist movement. While most of the artists of the 1924 surrealist group are dead, the movement itself and its impact on all of the arts has continued and still thrives throughout the world today. These ideas, these arts, have powerfully influenced later creators, inspiring the Theater of the Absurd, the later films of Bunuel and Jodorowski, the operas of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, performance art, the comedy of Ernie Kovacs, MTV, and the cleverest of television advertising. The author of this book shows that to study the arts of surrealism is to see a creative culture of revolution in progress, and to understand it fully is to see modernism at its most vital.
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