Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780199253425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 248 str.

Johanna Malt

Opis

Through the analysis of narratives, paintings and objets surrealistes by Breton, Aragon, Dali, and others, Malt examines how the object emerges as psychologically and historically marked in the surrealist context, functioning as both fetish and fetishized commodity. Responding to recent debates about the role of the uncanny and the representation of the body in surrealist art and literature, Malt's study offers new perspectives on familiar works such as the paintings of Salvador Dali as well as illuminating relatively neglected ones such as Breton's poemes-objets.
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Recenzje

Malt's Obscure Objects of Desire offers a valuable synthesis of literary and art-historical analytical approaches to the study of surrealism, as well as a complex picture of the idealogical structures the surrealists both confronted and fetishized.