SURREALIST ART & WRITING 1919/39: The Gold of Time - Brossura

Spector, Jack J.

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ISBN 10: 0521657393 ISBN 13: 9780521657396

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Riassunto

Surrealist Art and Writing offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism, the avant-garde movement that, in its search for contemporary lyricism and imagery, united literature and art to politics and psychology. Examining Surrealism's main phases from a variety of perspectives, Jack Spector emphasises the rebellion of the protagonists against their middle-class education. In Manifestos and Manifestations the Surrealists promoted Marxist over liberal politics; Freudian psychoanalysis over French psychiatry; Hegelian dialectics over Cartesian logic; and the outmoded, psychotic, or childish over modernist art. This study offers a coherent overview of the exciting and important interwar period in Europe. In particular it places avant-garde ideas and imagery within the historical and political contexts of the 1920s and 30s, integrating them into contemporary artistic and ideological currents.

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Surrealist Art and Writing offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism - of the artists Dali, Ernst, Masson, and Tanguy and the writing of Surrealism's leaders - André Breton, Aragon and Eluard. Spector uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine how the ideas and images of this avant-garde movement grew up in antipathy to middle class values.

Contenuti:

1. Introduction; 2. Breaking the institutional codes: revolution in the classroom; 3. The politics of dream and the dream of politics; 4. In the service of which revolution? An aborted incarnation of the dream: Marxism and Surrealism; 5. Surrealism and painting (The ineffable); 6. The Surrealist woman and the colonial other.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0521657393
• ISBN 13: 9780521657396
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 334