Max Ernst and the Surrealist Revolution

25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult

Automatic translation by
Systran

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The program examines the relationship between the revolutionary rhetoric of Surrealist literature and the works of Max Ernst, which are not obviously about revolutionary subjects. The link is the process whereby Ernst and other Surrealists arrived at their imagery, using methods designed to enable the subconscious mind to express itself. Ernst developed the techniques of collage, grattage and frottage, which relied on `random' events suggesting or establishing images. The Surrealist revolution lies in this organized artistic expression of the subconscious - to use Ernst's own words, in `the synthesis of objective and subjective life'.

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Credits -

Director
Jeremy Cooper

Presenter
David Batchelor

Contributors
Professor Dawn Ades
Dr Sarah Wilson

Open University/BBC

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