5/9/2008 How Do I Listen? Archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format. Click here to download   Hosted by: Dick Gordon Show Originally Aired: 2/27/2002 CALL 1 800-423-TALK The Legacy of Surrealism Remorse or Sphinx Embedded in the Sand, 1931, from the website www.rad.msu.edu Email to friend From the fur-lined teacup of Meret Oppenheim to the hallucinatory dream narratives of Salvador Dali, it is possible that no "ism" of the last century changed our way of looking at the world in quite as dramatic a fashion as Surrealism. The author of its original manifesto fixed upon psychic automatism, the Freudian "unconscious" as a foundation of the art form, but Karl Marx muscles his way in as well with his social revolution against repression. Still today, the Surrealists have us turning the mind back on itself, clashing disconnected ideas against each other and debating the origins and principles of the movement, and trying to leave a little room for humor as well. A trip into the world of absolute reality - sur-reality. Related Links Metropolitan Museum of Art, Surrealism Exhibit View an image of the Fur Tea Cup Mary Ann Caws, professor of comparative literature at the Graduate Center at CUNY and author, most recently, of "Surrealist Love Poems" Arthur Danto, art critic for The Nation Mary Ann Caws: Reads the poem: Andre Breton, On me dite que la-bas They Tell Me That Over There. listen Arthur Danto: I don't think there's a single surrealist painter who came close to that. listen list all Highlights... · Salvadore Dali Dropsy · Je t'aime...moi non plus Serge Gainsbourg: De Gainsbourg A Gainsbarre Vol. 1 list all Music...

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