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Peter Tush: "Dada and Surrealism" at The Dali Museum



The Dali Museum

Coffee with a Curator – Peter Tush: “Dada and Surrealism”
March 2013

Coffee with a Curator is a focused, theme-oriented presentation on a variety of Dalí-related topics. The talk is presented by one of the Dalí Museum’s Curatorial/Education team or an invited speaker.

For this talk, Peter Tush, Dalí Museum Curator of Education, discusses the history of Dada & Surrealism.

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26 thoughts on “Peter Tush: "Dada and Surrealism" at The Dali Museum
  1. I find interesting how Dada appeared simultaneously in six different cities. It means not only that some people emotionally react to the phenomenon in the same way, it is known thing, but also art representation of their feelings and emotions can be somewhat similar.

  2. Seems that Futurism was more of an influence than the Communists / Bolsheviks… Anyhow, the poster "on the right" is dated 1920 and Dada typography was already established by then and even derivative of the Italian Futurists…

  3. With regards to dadaism, this video basically regurgitates the same old  "in a nutshell" kind of mass-marketed 'art book' description of dada that defines the movement as a nihilistic 'haha' prelude to Surrealism.  Alas, the 'art' establishment "still needs an operation" (see Tristan Tzara). For all their passive-aggressive faux-bravado, lecturers like this still miss the many varying points and mediums of dada, two of which being the freedoms of expression and artistic license. Rather than doing some real research into the movement, so called 'art' experts still choose to prattle on about anarchism, urinals and absurdity (and, in the USA, communism). They still choose to dismiss the earnestness of Hugo Ball's poem Karawane (and, moreover, his recital of it). They still get very nervous in their failure to describe (or perhaps understand) what a 'frothy nothing' is or how the the elements of 'chance' and 'brevity' (not absurdity) figure highly in dadaism. In pretending to "get the joke", they reveal themselves as what they truly are. VIVA DADA!

  4. Surrealism isn't dead..that is like saying Christianity died with the last apostle or Marxism with Marx. It will continue to evolve and live in a subterranean fashion

  5. Why was it so funny that Leautremont wasn't read by his peers? It's curious how people like to laugh at people's imperfections, yet truly, they are laughing at themselves. The hypocrisy of the masses. This lecture was mediocre considering the difficulty in attempting to lecture on a subject so arduous and philosophical, and fitting such a detailed movement in a short amount of time.

  6. This deserves far more views. What a wonderful lecture. I've studied Surrealism with a passion since '97 yet I still heard new info here after all that time.

    Surrealism is dead. Viva Surrealism!

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