How to Look at and Understand Great Art

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Status: Ended
Seasons & Episodes: 1 seasons, 36 episodes
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Languages: English
Cast: Sharon Latchaw Hirsh
Production: The Great Courses
Production Countries: United States of America
Networks: The Great Courses
Type: Video

Overview

Contemplate the "anti-art" spirit of Dadaism, its nihilistic yet humorous indictment of civilization and bizarre use of unconventional media. In the sensibility of Surrealism, observe its compelling focus on the subconscious and two substyles - dream imagery, with its juxtaposition of objects and settings, and "automatic drawing," eliciting unplanned images from the unconscious.

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