Surreal Objects
Three-Dimensional Works from Dali to Man Ray
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"Beautiful as the chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table" is the most famous formulation of the Surrealist effect, penned by the Comte de Lautr�amont in the 1860s and adopted as a rallying cry by Andr� Breton at the inception of the Surrealist movement. Lautr�amont's vivid simile lent itself both to poetry and to visual art, and the Surrealist artists were quick to grasp that an entirely new kind of sculpture could be made from such potent combinations of commonplace objects. Duchamp's Dada-era objects, Freud's theories of the fetish, the "uncanny" and sexual... more
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