Currently watching: The Shock of the New Episode 5: The Threshold of Liberty, BBC 1980
Robert Hughes explores surrealism, which he thinks of as more of a religion than an arts movement. With the help of works by artists such as De Chirico, Ernst, Miro and Dali, he examines the surrealists’ attempts to make art without restrictions.
Hughes on Surrealism and the Paris flea markets: “That was in the good old days before they started calling junk antiques.”
Hughes on the birth of the surrealist object: “The flea market was like the unconscious mind of capitalism – it contained the repressed surplus.”
To Man Ray, everyday commodities were “invisible objects as source materials.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Eqwc5GGpc
