{"id":1877,"date":"2023-05-20T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/?page_id=1877"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:41:21","slug":"dadaism-and-surrealism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/galleries\/dadaism-and-surrealism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dadaism and Surrealism"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p><strong>In this amazing film about the birth of the Dadaists and Surrealists<\/strong>, you may recognize imagery and themes from HR Giger, silly walks and other post-victorian nose-tweaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These may have inspired Monty Python, Aeon Flux, and a lot of good ol&#8217; punkish nihilism and freudian psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(In my humble opinion, Dali was  enormously talented but over-exposed by pop culture. Marcel Duchamp was like a damned surgeon&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dada and Surrealism: Europe After the Rain documentary (1978)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sdBaS8fgwNs?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In this amazing film about the birth of the Dadaists and Surrealists, you may recognize imagery and themes from HR Giger, silly walks and other post-victorian nose-tweaking. These may have inspired Monty Python, Aeon&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1877\/revisions\/1959"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}