Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the
mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the
communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as
contradictions. Now, search as one may one will never find any other motivating
force in the activities of the Surrealists than the hope of finding and fixing this
point.”
Please address this passage from the Second Manifesto of Surrealism, in a 5-6 page
typed essay that includes:
Concrete examples of Surrealists’ attempts to reconcile or juxtapose
opposites.
References to Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s film “Un chien andalou”
(1929) and its connections to these ideas.
Some of the goals and techniques employed in the Surrealist games we have
studied/experimented with.
Specific works of art (Dalí, Ernst, etc) which address these
questions/contradictions.
Your own insights and point of view on the passage in question
How you perceive the changes/shifting of the Surrealist movement from
1924-1930.
Please write an organized, cohesive essay with an introduction, body of your
argument including citations, analysis and a conclusion.
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