Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-521-65739-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 634 g

Reihe: Contemporary Artists and their Critics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spector, Jack J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.