Author Question: A good example of a Surrealist poetic object is: A. L'Enfant Carburateur by Francis Picabia. B. ... (Read 82 times)

ishan · **on:** Jun 23, 2018

A good example of a Surrealist poetic object is:

A. L'Enfant Carburateur by Francis Picabia.
B. Bottle Dryer by Marcel Duchamp.
C. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali.
D. the Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer.
E. Object (Luncheon in Fur) by Meret Oppenheim.

Question 2

Consider these works: the kachina doll of the Zuni culture; Lipundja's Djalambu; and the pendant depicting a ruler of the Tairona culture. Discuss their purposes in the context of the spiritual beliefs of their respective cultures. Discuss the views of the relationships between the living and the dead that these works represent.

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Carissamariew · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

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Surrealist objects often juxtapose incongruous objects to provoke disorientation or a shiver of strangeness.

Answer to Question 2

North American Hopi and Zuni Indians made doll-size versions of the kachina, large supernatural beings danced by makers, as educational playthings so children might learn to identify and understand the numerous spirits. Ritual help for a spirit on its journey back from the Dreaming is the subject of Lipundja's Djalambu. Employing earth pigments on bark, the central form is a log coffin, which is also understood to represent a catfish, often thought to be a soul carried by a current of water in the river. The pendant depicting a ruler is from the Tairona culture, made of copper and gold alloy. The figure is probably a shaman, and the birds that unfold like wings from either side of his head are the spirit alter egos that give him access to the other world.