Appropriated Photographs in French Surrealist Periodicals, 1924-1939

ISBN-13: 9781032097770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str.

Linda Steer

Opis

The first monograph to analyze the Surrealist gesture of photographic appropriation, this study examines "found" photographs in three French Surrealist reviews published in the 1920s and 1930s: La Revolution surrealiste, edited by Andre Breton; Documents, edited by Georges Bataille; and Minotaure, edited by Breton and others.

Spis treści

Contents:

 List of illustrations 
 Acknowledgments 

 1 Introduction: surrealism’s photographic unconscious 

 2 Picturing hysteria in La Révolution surréaliste: from pathology to ecstasy 

 3 Ethnography’s photographic unconscious in Documents: savagery in civilization/civilization in savagery 

 4 Aesthetics and horror: forensic photography in Minotaure 

 5 From the marvelous to the monstrous: photography and the past 

 6 Epilogue: the legacy of surrealist photographic appropriation

Bibliography
Index 
 

O autorze

Linda Steer is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Brock University, Canada.