“Concepts of Modern Art” is a great book edited
by Nikos Stangos. Every chapter is brilliantly described by an expert of that
subject such a Vorticism or Fauvism. There are many beautiful and helpful
explanations of origin, evolution and death of each movement but today I want
to point out that of Dada and Surrealism. These two paragraphs are revealing
and shocking due to its resemblance with activities carried out in
pre-Columbian cultures, for instance. But it basically explains what Dada and
Surrealism were, their intentions and their ends. I recommend its wholly
lecture but anyway, here, the extract I underline.
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| Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917 |
