Surrealism
シュルレアリスム / 1924–1950s / Style / Avant-garde
The movement that forced reality's objects into impossible meetings under the logic of dream and the unconscious. Dépaysement spread from painting into photography, film and advertising as the grammar of impossible adjacency.
Dépaysement / Dream perspective / Objects transformed / Precision serving absurdity
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Breton's manifestos / Magritte and advertising's mutual seepage / surrealist photography and the rediscovery of Atget