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\n\"Surrealism\" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our...\n\"Surrealism\" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our wider culture up to today. Here's our case for what Surrealism is, and why you should care about it.\n
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10:09
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9th - 12th
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\nThe Art Assignment\n\n
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2017
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surrealism, movement, work, dreams, objects, artists, paris, pablo picasso, racism, fascism, john green, contemporary art, romanticism, edgar allan poe, sigmund freud, karl marx, fantasy, salvador dali, colonialism, world war ii
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