Issues and Practices Lecture

24th October 2014
Today's lecture explored the ideas of perspective. What is considered a real art form? How can art movements impact a community?

Perspective- Paolo Uccello 

Each movement reflects the time era of the chosen topic. The industrial revolution transpired into such movements as Cubism and the aspect of collage. (From the French coller- to glue)
In contrast such movements as the famous Dada movement, a movement that rebelled against known art conventions, transpiring from the first World War onwards. The aspect of things that may seem nonsense at first but within the perspective of the time made strong statements against the norm. Such movements completely contrasted with the usual perspective (such example as Paolo Uccello's 'Perspective' 1397-1475)
A famous act of the Dadaist rebellion is Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' 1917- a simple urinal made to represent art in an alternate form. It is visually strange and completely symbolic of the rebellious nature against society's considerations of normal behaviour and normal ideas of art.


Alternatively, Dadaism effected other medias, such as the Literature and Language stages of society, acts of Dadaist poems provided a rather random outcome of poetry, defining themselves against the considerations of everyday literary ideas.

Hannah Höch's work.

"One can shout with rubbish... Everything had broken down in any case, and new things had to be made out of the fragments"- Kurt Schwitters.

The aspect of randomly cutting up existing literary words and reassembling them by chosing at random words from a hat was a bizarre concept, with extremely bizarre outcomes. These poets were wild and free of society's restrictions during this time, they wanted to make a statement that anything can be altered, even society's art forms in every media.

Hannah Höch's Industrial Landscape 1967

How to make a Dada poem-

1. Take a newspaper or book
2. Grab some scissors
3. Cut out all the words necessary

Female contribution to the movement also offered completely different perspectives, such things as the combinations between pornography and women's magazines was a key element produced mainly by female artist Linder Sterling and Hannah Höch.