I have chosen to include the words of Duchamp here because I believe that they reveal a truth about both surrealism and the works that are classified as such. There isn't a book we read in this class that didn't have something to do with the mind, and Duchamp makes surrealism a dream in itself, though it deals with that dream-like state. As a whole, all of these books deal with identity and how it is defined. It is important to have something that connects all of the pieces together as Duchamp's words do here.
Creator
Marcel Duchamp
Source
Fantastic Visions
Language
English
Text
"Surrealism. For me it was the most beautiful dream that embodies the pinnacle of youth." -- Marcel Duchamp
]]>https://atimeline.omeka.net/items/show/18Orlando, since the argument can be made that Orlando's gender is simply a product of the environment surrounding her at the time. While she is male, the environment made her so, and while she is female, the environment also made her so.]]>2014-10-14T02:33:46-04:00
Like most other items in this collection, Dali's painting deals with the idea of identity and body. Dali leaves out bodies completely from this composition, which forces us to look at what makes identity that surrounds us. This can be directly related to the idea presented in Woolf's Orlando, since the argument can be made that Orlando's gender is simply a product of the environment surrounding her at the time. While she is male, the environment made her so, and while she is female, the environment also made her so.
Creator
Salvador Dali
Source
Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation
Publisher
Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation
Date
1936
Format
Oil on cardboard
Type
painting
Original Format
oil on cardboard
Physical Dimensions
60.9 x 45.8 cm
]]>https://atimeline.omeka.net/items/show/17A Nice Family ]]>2014-10-14T02:33:46-04:00
Title
A Nice Family
Description
Poem
Creator
Gisele Prassinos
Source
Paris Review
Date
1977
Contributor
Ellen Nations, translator
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Title
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate. One Second before Awakening
By Salvador Dali
Description
Example of typical portrayals of idealized women by male surrealists.
30,5 x 40 cm (12 x 15 3/4 in.) - Tirage argentique sur papier
Original Format
1959 surrealist exposition
]]>https://atimeline.omeka.net/items/show/14Wide Sargasso Sea. Rochester objectifies Annette to pieces, but does so so much that he even finds it impossible to refer to her by her own name. He begins calling his objectified wife by the name Bertha, likely because he doesn't know what else to call her. Though Breton's poem is more sexualized than Rhys's novel, the ideas expressed appear to be quite similar. Both deal with the idea of identity and how that identity is related to the body.]]>2014-10-14T02:33:46-04:00
This poem by André Breton disects the female body and compares the parts to very non-bodylike things. This made me think of Breton's speaker as someone who objectifies the woman he is with, much like Rochester does to Annette in Wide Sargasso Sea. Rochester objectifies Annette to pieces, but does so so much that he even finds it impossible to refer to her by her own name. He begins calling his objectified wife by the name Bertha, likely because he doesn't know what else to call her. Though Breton's poem is more sexualized than Rhys's novel, the ideas expressed appear to be quite similar. Both deal with the idea of identity and how that identity is related to the body.
"The Surrealist artist Dora Maar is better known as Picasso's dark-haired model and companion in the late 1930s than for her astonishing works. Her incarnation of the bestial nature of man is titled after the infamous and absurd dictatorial antihero of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi (1896). Maar's imaginative evocation of the pear-shaped, breast-plated Ubu in the monstrous reality of a baby armadillo is one of the most compelling and repellent of Surrealist photographs." - From image website