How you perceive the changes of the surrealist movement

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Short essay, 5-6 pages (due October 20th)

Essay topic:

p123 "Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. Now, search as one may one will never find any other motivating force in the activities of the Surrealists than the hope of finding and fixing this point."

Please address this passage from the Second Manifesto of Surrealism, in a 5-6 page typed essay that includes:

- Concrete examples of Surrealists' attempts to reconcile or juxtapose opposites.

- References to Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's film Un chien andalou (1929) and its connections to these ideas.

- Some of the goals and techniques employed in the Surrealist games we have studied/experimented with.

- Specific works of art (Dalí, Ernst, etc) which address these questions/contradictions.

- Your own insights and point of view on the passage in question

- How you perceive the changes/shifting of the Surrealist movement from 1924-1930.

Please write an organized, cohesive essay with an introduction, body of your argument including citations, analysis and a conclusion.

Give your essay a title and please include Works Cited.

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