RESPONSE TO WAR: Surrealism in the 1930’s with Stony Brook University Intern Lucas Field
Surrealism is widely known as an expression of the bizarre, the irrational, and the hallucinatory. But what inspired its origins? Founded by the French poet Andre Breton, Surrealism aimed to undermine Western rational thought and to challenge the status quo of wartime society and its oppressive orders. Presented by intern Lucas Field, this talk delves into the history of Surrealism as it developed in post-World War I Europe as a response to the atrocities of World War I. The early Surrealists’ mission was to create art that derived from the subconscious mind in order to bypass the conscious part of the self that had been created by the violent social and political conditions of the external world.
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Hosted by Joyce Raimondo, Education Coordinator, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
