ARTH 363 - Surrealism

FDR: HA
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2015 and alternate years

A study of the development of surrealist art and thought. For its practitioners, surrealism was–and remains–foremost a revolution, striving to “transform the world” (Marx) and “change life” (Rimbaud). We examine writings and ideas underlying key works by artists such as Dali, Magritte, and Max Ernst; watch surrealist films; and play surrealist “games of chance”. King.