TOPICS FOR CHURCHES
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SURREALISM AT ONE HUNDRED
CLASSIC SURREALIST FILMS THE "DARKNESS AT NOON"
Excerpts from Surrealistic films from 1929 through 1972 by Salvador Dali, Luis Buñuel, Jean Cocteau and Alfred Hitchcock will be introduced, screened and placed within the context of surrealist theory and psychoanalytic thought from the period.
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HISTORY OF MODERNIST DESIGN
CENTENNIAL OF ART DECO Art and design at the international
Exposition of Decorative arts, 1925
A showcase for the influence of modernist machine aesthetic in architecture and design, the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes was held in Paris from April to October 1925. Organized by the French government to promote the new architecture, interior design, furniture and industrial design, this decorative visual style was influenced by recent avant-garde Cubism, Expressionism and other movements throughout Europe in a fashionable synthesis that was vehemently modern and unhistoricizing.