R Bruce Elder

Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect

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Produktbeschreibung

2 Dadism and the Disasters of War R. Bruce Elder Here I examine in some detail two artistic movements that extolled the value of escaping reason?s enfeebling effects. In the first of these chapters, I challenge the view of DADA as chiefly a negative or protest movement, and to counter that view, I demonstrate that spiritual themes had a important place in DADA and that they steered it towards constructive ends.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 776
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 151mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1190g
• ISBN-13: 9781554586257
• ISBN-10: 1554586259
• Artikelnr.: 35114148

Autorenporträt

R. Bruce Elder is an award-winning filmmaker and teaches media at Ryerson University. His book Harmony & Dissent (WLU Press, 2008) received the prestigious Robert Motherwell Book Prize and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Rudolf Kuenzli described DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect (WLU Press, 2013) as ?that rare book that casts the early twentieth-century avant-garde in a very new light.?

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect by R. Bruce Elder
Preface
1 The Fate of Reason in Modernity
The Modern Paradigm: Privileging Reason
Geometry and Geometries
Foundationalism Collapses
Logic and Paradox
Continuity and the Foundations of Physics
Cantor and the Strangeness of Infinity
Formalist Mathematics and the Limits of Reason
Consequences of Reason's Retreat
?Primitivism? as a Response to the Collapse of Reason
Notes
2 Dadism and the Disasters of War
The Z?rich Coterie and Their Antics
The Dada Conspirators: Tristan Tzara
The Dada Conspirators: Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings
The Dada Conspirators: Francis Picabia
The K?nstlerkneipe Cabaret Voltaire and the Galerie Dada
DADA: War and Politics
DADA against Burgeoning of Nationalism: What DADA Might Have Prevented
A Precursor of DADA: The Comic Grotesque
The Diffusion of DADA
The Conditions That Produced the State of Mind Known as DADA
Elementalism's Menacing Lure
DADA: Art and Anti-Art
DADA and the Life Principle
Constructive DADA
Hans Richter on the Six Forms of Use in Returning Art to Its Elementary
Condition
Dada Forms: Collage
Further on Collage's New Notion of Form
DADA and Language
Parallels with the Russian Trans-Rationalists and Andrei Bely
Zaum and the Higher Consciousness of Trans-Sense
Picabia, Man Ray and the Dadaist Art of the Machine
Duchamp and DADA's Art of the Machine
Entr'acte (1924): Commentary
Man Ray's DADA Cinema
Emak Bakia: Introduction
Emak Bakia: Commentary
DADA: In conclusion
Notes
3 Surrealism and the Cinema
Beginnings
Psychoanalysis and the Occult: The Intrusion of Alien Forms into
Consciousness and the Poetics of the Surrealist Literary Image
DADA and Surrealism
Hippolyte Taine, Hasard Objectif, the Poetic Image and the Cinema
The Cinema, Photography and ?the Marvellous?
Photography, the Surrealist Object, and the Unheimlich
Ernst's Frottage as a Handmade Trace and Automatist Form
Surrealism, Apollinaire, and Reconciliatio
Surrealism and the Hegelian Dialectic
Surrealism and the Freudian Dialectic
Dal?, the Double Image, and Paranoiac-Critical Methods
Dal? Against Idealism
Dal?, Paranoia and Lacan: A New Phase of Surrealism Begins
Lacan's Theories and Surrealists' Conception of the Poetic Image
Un chien andalou: Commentary
An Anti-art Film
The Verbal Image
Surrealism's Fissures and Luis Bu?uel's Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan
Las Hurdes and the Documentary
Dialectical Structure in Las Hurdes
Las Hurdes and Bataille's Heterology
Las Hurdes and the Sacred
Las Hurdes as an Ethnographic Film
The Hurdanos in History
How Surrealism Has Been Passed Down into the Twenty-First Century: The
Marvellous Correspondence between Max Ernst's Collage Novels and Lawrence
Jordan's Films
Collage as a Pneumatic Device: Through Ernst to Jordan
The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bont???Dimanche? (Calcination)
The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bont???Lundi? (Dissolution)
The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bont???Mardi? (Separation)
The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bont???Mercredi? (Conjunction)
The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bont???Jeudi?
(Putrefaction/Fermentation)
The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bont???Vendredi?
(Distillation)
The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bont???Samedi? (Coagulation)
The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bont???Samedi? (Coagulation)
Lawrence Jordan between Surrealism and Alchemy
Lawrence Jordan's Duo Concertantes: Commentary
Part One: The Centennial Exposition
Part Two: Patricia Gives Birth to a Dream by the Doorway
Notes
In Lieu of a Conclusion
Appendix 1: How Reason Lost its Purchase on Reality
Notes
Appendix 2: Infinity Confounds Reason
Notes
Appendix 3: An Account of G?del's Proof for Poets, Painters and Art
Historians
Notes
Appendix 4: Emak Bakia: A Shot Analysis and Commentary
Notes
Appendix 5: Un chien andalou: A Shot Analysis and Commentary
Notes
Appendix 6: Land without Bread: An Shot Analysis and Commentary
Notes
Appendix 7: Analysis of Larry Jordan's Duo Concertantes
Part One: The Centennial Exposition
Part Two: Patricia Gives Birth to a Dream by the Doorway
Duo Concertantes Musical Form: Tables
Duo Concertantes Part 1: The Centennial Exposition
Duo Concertantes Part 2: Patricia Gives Birth to a Dream by the Doorway
Index