Both Dada and Surrealism cannot be understood as just new art movements, but also social ones. During the 1960s, the whole notion of what constituted art underwent a profound change, accompanying this questioning of the aesthetics of the art object; this was also a time when massive acceleration took place in the extent to which sex was discusses and sexual images, produced. One of the main developments that came out of the innovative ferment of the early twentieth century, and continued to take root in the preceding cultural and political discourse, was an improvement in the social position of women, and it is no coincidence that feminism was among the most important …show more content…
Watson, Gray. Art and Sex. London: I. B. Tauris, 2008. Print.
Fig 4: Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) Photography by Man Ray, 1921. Silver print, Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art
Fig 4: Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) Photography by Man Ray, 1921. Silver print, Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art
Fig 3: L.H.O.O.Q, Marcel Duchamp. 1919, Playing card with colored ink on printed invitation. 21 x 12.8 cm, France.
Fig 3: L.H.O.O.Q, Marcel Duchamp. 1919, Playing card with colored ink on printed invitation. 21 x 12.8 cm, France.
Fig 2: Fountain, Marcel Duchamp. 1917, Urinal “readymade” signed with a false name, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz.
Fig 2: Fountain, Marcel Duchamp. 1917, Urinal “readymade” signed with a false name, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz.
Fig 1: Nude Descending A Staircase, Marcel Duchamp. 1912, Oil on Canvas, 146 x 89 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art
Fig 1: Nude Descending A Staircase, Marcel Duchamp. 1912, Oil on Canvas, 146 x 89 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art
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