Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche

ISBN-13: 9780521823876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 342 str.

Steven Harris

Opis

This volume examines the intersection of Hegelian aesthetics, experimental art and poetry, Marxism and psychoanalysis in the development of the theory and practice of the Surrealist movement. Steven Harris analyzes the consequences of the Surrealists' efforts to synthesize their diverse concerns through the invention, in 1931, of the "object" and the redefining of their activities as a type of revolutionary science. He also analyzes the debate on proletarian literature, the Surrealists' reaction to the Popular Front, and their eventual defense of an experimental modern art.

Recenzje

'… an impressive first book with potential longevity.' Art History

Spis treści

1. L'Au-delà de la peinture; 2. L'en deçà de la politique; 3. A delay in glass; 4. Avant-Garde and Front Populaire; 5. Beware of domestic objects: vocation and equivocation in 1936.