Surrealism
What is the relation between the door and the window? Between my door and Dalí’s window?
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ENCYCLOPEDIA. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.... See more
MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM
For consciousness to be able to imagine, it must be able to escape from the world by its very nature, it must be able to stand back from the world by its own efforts. In a word, it must be free. (Sartre 1940 [2004: 184])
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For Sartre, the imaginary creation is only possible if consciousness is not placed “in-the-midst-of-the-world” as one existent among others.
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Bataille_Georges_The_Absence_of_Myth_Writings_on_Surrealism.pdf
ia801802.us.archive.org“the habit of photographic seeing— of looking at reality as an array of potential photographs— create estrangement from, rather than union with, nature”
“So successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.”
“the profileration of photographs is
... See moreSURREALISM, n. Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express --verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner --the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the though t, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern