THE RECURRING APPEAL OF THE SURREAL
Sundays, October 23, 30 and November 6,
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
AIG American General Conference Room, Audrey Jones Beck Building
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 5601 Main St.
Sunday, November 13 at The Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
We are in the midst of a year-long period that boasts no fewer
than six U.S. exhibitions on Surrealism, including major retrospectives
on Max
Ernst at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Salvador
Dali at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Indeed, this seminar coincides
with the opening of "The
Surreal Calder "at the Menil Collection. What explains this
explosion of interest in Surrealism more than fifty years after the
movement's heyday?
OCTOBER 23: WHY SURREALISM (THEN AND NOW)?
David
Brauer, senior lecturer at the Glassell School of Art, the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will reacquaint us with the environment
that stimulated the development of the Surrealists and their artistic
reactions. He will then explore why those factors might resonate with
us today.
OCTOBER 30: SALVADOR
DALI AND THE CAMEMBERT OF TIME
David
Brauer will decode the enduring symbols of Surrealism's mad
genius.
NOVEMBER 6: METAMORPHOSIS AND MIRRORS: THE FILMS OF JEAN
COCTEAU
Brian
Huberman, associate professor of visual arts at Rice University,
will discuss Jean Cocteau's films. Please note that to accommodate our
viewing of film clips, this session will last until 6pm.
NOVEMBER 13: MAX
ERNST: THOUGHTS AND SECOND THOUGHTS ON CHANCE AND THE IRRATIONAL
William
Camfield, Joseph and Joanna N. Mullen Professor Emeritus
of Art and Art History at Rice University, will lead us on a gallery
walk through the Menil Collection. Camfield worked with the late Walter
Hopps on the Menil Collection's two major Ernst exhibitions and wrote
the catalogue, Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism.
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