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{Surrealist and Fantasist sculpture}

‘Sculpture of fantasy (1920-45[ce]).* One trend of Surrealist sculpture of the late 1920s[ce] to the 1930s consisted of compositions made up of found objects, such as Meret Oppenheim’s “Object, Fur Covered Cap (1936[ce]). As with Dadaist fabrications, the unfamiliar conjunction of familiar objects in these assemblies was dictated by impulse ** and irrationality and could be summarised by Isadore Ducasse’s often-quoted statement, “Beautiful … as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine with an umbrella.”

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				64C1920ce
			/		\
		r~		1928[ce]		S~
	/						\
g~				1936[ce]				M~
	\						/
		j~		1944[ce]		U~

**r~ & g~

*** [– ibid (Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:109)]

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