Study of French Modernism: the peripheries of Dada and Surrealism

以下是我们研究的五个主题的研究结果：1.关于雷蒙德·鲁塞尔。基于我们对鲁塞尔新小说《非洲印象》插图的兴趣，我们分析了他作品中大量接近定格摄影的图像。现在我们可以说，这与他偏执地坚持死亡和重生的主题有关。关于亚瑟·克雷文。我们出版了一本书，完整地解释了达达的先驱亚瑟·克拉万的生平和作品。另一方面，这本书让我们有机会描述20世纪初在世界各地发展起来的现代主义运动。关于米歇尔·莱里斯。他是一位对现代主义问题特别感兴趣的超现实主义者。因此，我们考察了他最喜欢的术语“在场”的概念，目的是定义他作品中的现代感。这给我们带来了另一个关于雷里斯的话题：异国情调。关于达达和超现实主义。沃尔特·本杰明和超现实主义者对一种垃圾有着相同的兴趣，这是一种在日常生活中毫无用处的东西。换句话说，他们都试图获得一种无意识。这就是为什么他们也对摄影和电影感兴趣，因为这是捕捉无意识的一种方式。关于20世纪的文化、社会、思想。通过我们的研究，我们认识到现代主义与异国情调是有关系的。因此，我们应该把研究的方向放在后殖民主义问题上。另一方面，我们可以尝试在视觉艺术中找到一些接近于“无意识”或“身体”的元素，总之，这是一种对理性主体的异国情调。

The following is the results in each of 5 themes which costitute our studies:1. About Raymond Roussel. Based on our interest to illustrations in Roussel's Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique, we analyzed a lot of images close to stop-motion photography in his works. Now we can say that they have something to do with his monomaniac adherence to the themes of death and rebirth.2. About Arthur Cravan. We published a book explaining en full the life and the works of Arthur Cravan, a pioneer of Dada. On the other hand, this book gave us the opportunity to describe the movements of modernism developed here and there in the world in the beginning of the 20^<th> century.3. About Michel Leiris. He was a surrealist who was especially interested in the problem of modernism. So we examined the notion of his favorite term "presence" in the purpose of defining the sense of modernity in his works. That brought us another subject concerning Leiris: exoticism.4. About Dada and Surrealism. Walter Benjamin and Surrealists share the same interest in a sort of garbage, something useless in everyday life. In other words, they both tried to pick up a kind of unconsciousness. That is why they are also interested in photography and cinema as a way to catch the unconsciousness.5. About the culture, the society, the thought of 20^<th> century. Through our studies, we recognize that the modernism has something to do with the exoticism. So we should orient our research to the problem of post-colonialism. On the other hand, we can try to find in visual arts some elements close to an "unconsciousness" or a "body", in a word, a kind of exoticism for the rational subject.