Dada and Surrealist Word-Image

Name: Dada and Surrealist Word-Image
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ISBN: 9780262061230

ISBN-10: 0262061236

ISBN-13: 9780262061230

Edition: 1989

Authors: Judi Freeman, John C. Welchman

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With a contribution by John C. Welchman. The incorporation of words, letters, and numbers in paintings became a significant preoccupation of such artists as Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Ren Magritte, and Joan Miroacute;. Beginning in 1915 and continuing through the 1940s, artists associated with the Dada and surrealist movements radically altered perceptions of what a painting or an art object should be. The Dada & Surrealist Word-Image examines this fusing of words and images, its impact on traditional forms of art, and the issues it raises for today's modernist agenda. Curator and art historian Judi Freeman offers a close iconographic analysis of Dada and surrealist word images,…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/21/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

John C. Welchman is Professor of Modern Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.